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The WaPo book blog had something I thought interesting. What books remain on your shelves that you’ve never read but continue to keep even though you’ve weeded out lots of others over the years?
Underworld by Don DeLillo immediately comes to mind. It’s been on my shelves for close to a decade but I never […]
October is rapidly becoming one of my favorite months. Wednesday night was the draft in the Puck Podcast keeper fantasy hockey league — which has members from the U.S., Canada, Switzerland and the U.K. (I had the first draft pick and took Ovechkin.) The USHL season started Friday night. The NHL Network brought me the […]
What, in your opinion, is the best book that you haven’t liked? Mind you, I don’t mean your most-hated book–oh, no. I mean the most accomplished, skilled, well-written, impressive book that you just simply didn’t like.
With the standard being books I “just simply didn’t like,” there’s so many, largely due to my illiterati […]
In the midst of Banned Books Week, President John F. Kennedy’s statement that “a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people” is particularly pertinent. And is it just coincidence that the Kennedy presidency seems to be […]
Here’s the books I’m lusting after currently:
The Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War, Asne Seierstad — I’ve always had an interest in those parts of the world that grab headlines and we then forget. Given it is written by the author of The Bookseller of Kabul, I have high hopes for this, […]
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