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There’s a saying a number of people my age share: “If you remember the ’70s, it means you didn’t live through them.” British journalist and author Francis Wheen, though, has me thinking that maybe that lack of memory was not chemically induced but, rather, the result of trying to forget. With Strange Days Indeed: The [...] Tim March 19th, 2010 | Tags: 1970s, Book Reviews, history, nonfiction | Category: Book Reviews | Leave a comment |
 Print This Post |  Email This PostBy their nature, historic figures tend to be locked on particular periods in their lives. If they also happen to become a key character on television or in film, it is fairly certain they will be forever stereotyped by that portrayal. For many, Seth Bullock has become the handsome, somewhat idealistic and good-hearted [...] Tim March 15th, 2010 | Tags: biography, Book Reviews, history | Category: Book Reviews | Leave a comment |
Print This Post | Email This PostThere’s certainly one thing Gerbrand Bakker’s The Twin did. It had me pondering how, among other things, age impacts my reading tastes. About halfway through a noted author’s new novel set in South Dakota and its history, I gave up. I picked up a postapocalyptic novel, one of my favorite SF subgenres. I [...] Tim March 11th, 2010 | Tags: Book Reviews, fiction, world literature | Category: Book Reviews | Leave a comment |
Print This Post | Email This PostReligion has been with us as long as there has been human civilization, if not longer. Conversely, for as long as there has been human civilization, religion has been a battleground, both real and theoretical. Even today we see it in fanatics killing those with whom they disagree or the advent of the [...] Tim March 2nd, 2010 | Tags: Book Reviews, nonfiction, Religion, Science | Category: Book Reviews | One comment |
Print This Post | Email This Post“I had nothing to do with it.” That’s what the title character says in the opening sentence of Philippe Claudel’s novel Brodeck. And while Brodeck is right, he has been given the task of detailing how the small village in which he lives felt it had no choice but to kill an outsider. There are several [...] Tim February 16th, 2010 | Tags: Book Reviews, fiction, world literature | Category: Book Reviews | Leave a comment |
Print This Post | Email This PostFor whatever reason, celebrity memoirs seem to sell better when they are tell-all tales. In fact, it seems the more salacious, the better. If that’s what intrigues you about such works, Me, the Mob, and the Music: One Helluva Ride with Tommy James & The Shondells won’t fit the bill. If, though, [...] Tim February 12th, 2010 | Tags: Book Reviews, memoir, Music, nonfiction | Category: Book Reviews | Leave a comment |
Print This Post | Email This PostThe individual experiences of soldiers during the Vietnam War are the basis of some excellent books, whether the nonfiction combat memoir, combat experiences as the basis for fiction or the recollections of soldiers who deserted and went to Canada. With his novel Get Out of the Way, Daniel Dinges presents a different perspective, that [...] Tim February 4th, 2010 | Tags: Book Reviews, fiction | Category: Book Reviews | Leave a comment |
Print This Post | Email This PostMicroreview: The Kindly Ones by Jonathan LittellA 975-page novel probably isn’t the best for the first “microreview,” especially one as widely praised and condemned as Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones. The book won two of France’s highest literary awards before being translated into English — although it is written by an American. It is the fictional, but exceptionally well researched, memoir [...] Tim January 21st, 2010 | Tags: Book Reviews, fiction, world literature | Category: Book Reviews | Leave a comment |
Print This Post | Email This PostJigoku. 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 [...] Tim January 18th, 2010 | Tags: Book Reviews, history, nonfiction | Category: Book Reviews | Leave a comment |
Print This Post | Email This PostIf the term “variety show” comes up today, it’s most likely in a debate over Jay Leno’s move to prime time television. Otherwise, it brings to mind names like Ed Sullivan, Sonny and Cher or even Donny and Marie, along with whatever smile or cringe they may produce. While variety shows tend to [...] Tim January 7th, 2010 | Tags: Book Reviews, nonfiction, television | Category: Book Reviews | Leave a comment |
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