Category: Book Reviews

April 22, 2010

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

Written for a thinking reader, treats you like you are intelligent, though he could have used a bit of editing to cut some of the...

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April 22, 2010

All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou **** (of 4)

Using all her gifts as a poet, Angelou recounts a period in the 1950s when she joined a community of ex-patriot African Americans in Ghana...

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April 14, 2010

Recommended book – Dirt (What’s not to like?)

“Dirt” by William Bryant Logan. It’s written like a poetic memoir, half natural history half philosophical treatise. The writing is fantastic, the author is extremely...

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April 1, 2010

Typhoon by Charles Cummings ** (of 4)

A seriously mediocre suspense story about a hard-drinking, chain-smoking, young Mi-6 Agent doing secret agent stuff for God and Country in the waning days before...

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February 27, 2010