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Review of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Laurence Sterne) 2 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
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Review of America 3.0: Rebooting American Prosperity in the 21st Century-Why America's Greatest Days Are Yet to Come (James Bennett) 22 Jul 2013 | 10:00 am
It will seem odd to make the following argument in a review of a book that opens by celebrating American exceptionalism, but the clearest way to understand our current politics is to expand our view a...
Review of The Princess of Burundi (Ann Lindell Mysteries) (Kjell Eriksson) 21 Jul 2013 | 10:00 am
This is the first of the Ann Lindell Mysteries to be translated into English, but not the first in the series. So there's much backstory that we have to try and catch up on as we go along and, oddly, ...
Review of The Stars, the Snow, the Fire: Twenty-Five Years in the Northern Wilderness (John Haines) 8 Jul 2013 | 10:00 am
I came to this place, a young man green and lonely. Well quit of the world, I framed a house of moss and timber, called it a home, and sat in the warm evenings singing to myself as a man sings when h...
Review of Cleopatra : Last Queen of Egypt (Joyce Tyldesley) 7 Jul 2013 | 10:00 am
The strength of Joyce Tyldesley's definitive biography of Cleopatra is also the source of its one weakness. In separating out what we can know with some certainty from the myths and legends that have ...
Review of Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami) 7 Jul 2013 | 10:00 am
Having tried to read some of Mr. Murakami's more experimental fictions with little success, and not being much of a fan of the Beatles, I didn't head into this novel with terribly high expectations. B...
Review of He Died With His Eyes Open (Derek Raymond) 7 Jul 2013 | 10:00 am
Born into a wealthy textile manufacturing family, Robert "Robin" Cook rebelled and lived on the margins of society in Britain, Europe and America, to the point of being associated with the Krays in th...
Review of My Planet : Finding Humor in the Oddest Places (Mary Roach) 29 Jun 2013 | 10:00 am
There are three kinds of people in this world: 1) People who make lists, 2) People who don?t make lists, and 3) People who carve tiny Nativity scenes out of pecan hulls. I?m sorry, there isn?t really ...
Review of An Intellectual History of Cannibalism (Catalin Avramescu) 29 Jun 2013 | 10:00 am
The discussion between A and B captures the cannibal at a crossroads, at a precarious point in history when access to him becomes opaque and the way he is understood radically altered. Beyond this poi...
Review of At Drake's Command: The adventures of Peregrine James during the second circumnavigation of the world (Volume 1) (David Hill) 21 Jun 2013 | 10:00 am
I've had a soft spot for the stories of sailors and explorers ever since they helped made me an avid reader in the 5th grade. I can't recall the publisher, but someone put out a whole series on everyb...
