Archive | Book Reviews
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Book review: “Blood, Bones, and Butter”
Do not, under any circumstances, read "Blood, Bones, and Butter" while you are hungry. Gabrielle Hamilton's food descriptions can be so luscious and vivid that you will feel compelled to devour anything edible in front of you regardless of age or species (including, but no limited to, sleeping roomma...
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In new book, professor explores “Nixon’s Darkest Secrets”
Was President Richard M. Nixon the crook he’s made out to be? According to former White House correspondent and American U. Adjunct Professor Donald Fulsom, he was.
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Book review: ‘Death Comes to Pemeberly’ gives Austen new life
An extension of the classic Jane Austen novel Pride and Prejudice, Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James, places Austen’s characters in the midst of a murder mystery.
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Book review: Chomsky on 9/11
9-11: Was There an Alternative? Noam Chomsky 176 pp. Seven Stories Press. $13.95. Following 9/11, few people questioned whether the American government was right to invade Afghanistan, and certainly did not blame the American government for the attacks on the World Trade Center.
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Book review: Isaacson paints complex portrait of Jobs’ genius
The story of a person’s life is more about that person’s place in the grand narrative of history than a simple timeline of the events in their life.
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Book review: ‘The Office’ star Mindy Kaling keeps laughs coming
Reading Mindy Kaling's new book, "Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)," is like reading a transcript of every conversation I've had or wish I had with one of my best friends.
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Book review: ‘Punching Tom Hanks’
“Punching Tom Hanks" Author: Kevin Seccia Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Without giving it much thought, the premise behind “Punching Tom Hanks” seems like a throwaway concept.
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Book review: Without Fleming, new Bond book fails to capture essence of 007
This could be forgiven if the hero at the heart of these scenes were at all interesting. But Deaver's take on Bond manages to be both overly reverent and overly generic.
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Book Review: Furious Love
“Since I was a little girl, I believed I was a child of destiny, and if that is true, Richard Burton was surely my fate.” – Elizabeth Taylor I’ve never been the voyeuristic type.