Tag: books
member name: Chris W.
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March 16, 2008 06:38 PM EDT --
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
$22.95 publish date March 11, 2008
It amazes me that this is a debut novel. That just can't be right. How can Hillary Jordan . . .
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December 02, 2008 04:40 PM EST --
This is the question that occurred to me in a recent gather conversation I was having with other adults about young adult books such as Twilight, Paper Towns, etc.
Would you ever consider giving a . . .
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July 22, 2007 03:40 PM EDT --
Dear Ms. Rowling:
I have finished reading "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" and my mood is somewhat melancholy. It is not that your final tome in Harry's epic fails to measure up to . . .
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February 03, 2007 11:12 AM EST --
Long before he wrote "Hell and high Water: global warming, the solution and the politics, and what we should do", Joseph Romm used to work for the Department of Energy. Rather than being a climatologist, . . .
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January 26, 2009 10:03 PM EST --
The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging by the Editors of the Huffington Post
Simon and Schuster 2008 $15.00 ISBN 1-4391-0500-6 . . .
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May 31, 2007 08:31 PM EDT --
Thank you, gather members, for your kind responses to my book picks from the Fall publishing season. I have to admit that it really was just reprocessed Publisher's Weekly news with my opinion added- . . .
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June 30, 2007 11:13 AM EDT --
I am telling you what I see as must reads, based on the advance reviews that I have read and the advance copies in my hands. I am not focusing on fiction blockbusters here because those do not interest . . .
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October 04, 2009 09:12 AM EDT --
There are four new nonfiction books next to my bed:
Abigail Adams by Woody Holton. This 550 pager explores exhaustively the life story of the most fascinating woman of early US history. Dr. Holton . . .
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October 22, 2009 10:14 PM EDT --
NEW books that I would read:
Man of Constant Sorrow by Dr. Ralph Stanley.
400 odd pages of memoirs from the Appalachian music legend who performed the lead song of the same name in O Brother . . .
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January 19, 2009 10:05 PM EST --
Leafing through a couple issues of Publisher's Weekly, I see lots of concern for the state of publishing. Peter Olson, former head of Random House, suggests that sales will sink, pricing pressures . . .
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February 20, 2007 10:22 AM EST --
O.Z. Livaneli is a member of the Turkish Parliament, a musician and composer, and now, a novelist. I am not qualified to comment on how he handles those first three jobs, but he is a . . .
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February 24, 2008 11:36 PM EST --
I love reading a debut novel. This one was worth reading, possessing a surprising assurance for a first try.
Kate Maloy chose to write about the end of life in "Every Last Cuckoo". No, not . . .
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June 09, 2008 10:31 PM EDT --
Me of Little Faith by Lewis Black
Riverhead Books, 2008 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-59448-994-5
I happen to enjoy Lewis Black. I have . . .
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September 17, 2008 09:42 PM EDT --
For the most part, it has been a really good experience to participate in a nonfiction book group with a few other adults here in town over the past couple years. We have read everything from Zakaria . . .
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March 16, 2007 08:27 PM EDT --
Really, this is an important pointer for you. If you screw up and treat the whole thing as a big joke, you will be sorry. What follows could be a turbo-charged nonstop fever dream, a trip down the nightroad. . . .
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September 21, 2006 10:26 PM EDT --
I will keep this short. The best new book I have read this past month was "All Aunt Hagar's Children" by Edward P. Jones. It is an exploration of the African American community of Washington . . .
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February 18, 2008 09:02 PM EST --
Here are a few intriguing titles from Publisher's Weekly (I picked out what I think are the highlight items):
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder (biography . . .
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October 08, 2006 08:08 PM EDT --
I just finished reading Thunderstruck by Erik Larson. Larson also wrote The Devil in the White City, a longtime bestseller. I read Thunderstruck in an advance copy, it is being published October . . .
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January 09, 2007 08:37 PM EST --
Lee Smith Novel Finds Peace beyond Pain
“On Agate Hill” is the newest novel by Lee Smith. Smith’s . . .
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November 14, 2006 10:32 PM EST --
I am not a fan of most of the novels that I see on the bestseller lists. I find too many cardboard cutout characters, contrived plots, bargain basement imitation emotions. While people such a Danielle . . .
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