Book Reviews, February 2015
My second installment of mini book reviews as I endeavor to read more carefully and share recommendations for other readers. Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande is...
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The May installment of mini book reviews has the two books I referenced in my last post about criminal justice, as well as two very different novels set during World War II, and another book on...
View ArticleBook Reviews, October 2015
I’m trying something new with October’s batch of book reviews. The first review is twice as long as usual so that I could go into more depth on the important history of voting rights in America. I...
View ArticleBook Reviews, November 2015
November’s books are a varied lot, but they were all pretty great (with one notable exception–I’m looking at you, Luke Skywalker). You might find something you like. NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism...
View ArticleBest Books I Read in 2015
I read a lot of great books in 2015, and I would recommend many of them to interested readers. But I thought it might be helpful to narrow it down to a smaller list of titles for a year end wrap up....
View ArticleBook Reviews, February 2016
February’s reviews start off with three (!) comic books of varying quality. I read lots of comics, mostly from the library, but I don’t always review them. One reason is that because of the serial...
View ArticleBook Reviews, April 2016
I bought a stack of books at the annual library sale and got started on reading some of them in April. I couldn’t help rereading an old favorite in the hopes that I would find it just as enthralling...
View ArticleBook Reviews, June 2016
June was a good month of reading. I read four fantastic and varied books. I’d recommend all of them highly! Check them out! Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future by Lauren Redniss...
View ArticleSelected Book Reviews, October – December 2016
This batch of book reviews round out last year’s reading. I got behind in writing them for reasons that I can’t even recall, but it nagged at me that I hadn’t finished them. These will probably be...
View ArticleBest Books I Read in 2016
It’s hard to narrow down a year’s worth of reading to a manageable list of the cream of the crop, but I’ll try. From the books I read in 2016, here are the fifteen books I would most recommend. First...
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