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Book Review: Goode’s World Atlas
Our youngest daughter is taking AP Human Geography this year, and coupled in the photo above with her textbook...
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Book Review: The Red Book
This novel utilizes hypothetical "red book" entries to introduce characters returning to Harvard for their 20th reunion. The whole...
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Book Review: Bird Cloud
I found myself liking this book by the end. It is a rather droll telling of building a house...
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Book Review: State of Wonder
I liked this book, regardless of the fact that it takes place in the pharmaceutical industry and has some...
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Book Review: Age of Miracles
This novel had a very unique premise: the earth’s rotation begins gradually to slow down. Each day is longer...
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Book Review: Mennonite in a Little Black Dress
Although I can give this memoir only three stars – due to too much emphasis on bodily functions and...
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Book Review: American Grown
The Kitchen Garden at the White House, begun by Mrs. Obama in 2009, has come to symbolize bringing the...
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Giving Myself Permission Not to Finish These Two Books
Reading books is a glorious oasis for me, which is why it was an unexpected revelation that I actually...
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Book Review: Last Man in Tower
This book seemed to take forever for me to get through. I read this because I had found...
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Book Review: A Bigger Message (Conversations with David Hockney)
I found this book fascinating and give it five stars. David Hockney’s work has spanned a provocative period...
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Book Review: Sketchbook Confidential
I’ve read through this book slowly, a couple of page spreads at a time: each artist featured here had...
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Book Review: The White Tiger
This is an eye opening novel of corruption and oppression in modern day India. The protagonist cannot free...