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Book Review: The Last Train from Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino

Jigoku. The Japanese word for hell. Yet probably no concept of hell is sufficient to convey the paroxysm of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. Perhaps equally difficult to imagine is being within a few blocks or or a couple miles of Ground Zero and surviving to escape the city […]

Weekend Edition: 1-16

Bulletin Board

At first, I thought today’s post was going to be short simply due to mid-January doldrums. But, in fact, today is actually National Nothing Day. By posting, though, I suppose I’m converting it to little or nothing day.

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

The dangers of a high-information diet

Bookish Linkage

The […]

Friday Follies 2.0

Announcements from the Consumer Product Safety Commission about product recalls aren’t new. But one for books? Oxmoor House is recalling 951,000 copies of nine home improvement books because of errors “that could lead consumers to incorrectly install or repair electrical wiring, posing an electrical shock or fire hazard.” The books were sold at home […]

Welcome to the book review slums

You would think I would automatically hail the advent of a new interweb book review site, especially one created by a well-respected national magazine. But I can’t say The New Republic did much to entice me when it announced its new online book review, The Book.

In an online letter to “Friends of Books and […]

Booking Through Thursday: To flap or not to flap

Do you read the inside flaps that describe a book before or while reading it?

Since I suggested the question, I suppose I have somewhat of an obligation to answer it.

I probably should have been more clear but I’m referring to the flaps on the dust jackets of books. And, as a general […]