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I’m not brave or smart enough to come up with a list of the best five or ten books for the first half of the year. I can, however, provide a summary of my reading to date and what’s impressed me.
So far, I’ve read 64 books, equally divided between fiction and nonfiction totaling just […]
Can’t say anything I read this month really grabbed me. Of course, that might be the weather distracting me. Plus, it was another one of those months where I would pick up a book, read a couple pages and go look for something else. There were two, though, that I got a ways in before […]
Although I know lists like these are entirely subjective — and the creator of this one even admits such efforts can be “absurd” — I still am drawn to them. Last week, Flavorwire posted a list of a “single must-read book” from each of the last 50 years, together with anywhere from zero to a […]
I’ve been an evangelist for Maria Doria Russell’s The Sparrow since I first read it in 1996. Although using science fiction as a vehicle, it is a thought-provoking look at philosophy and spirituality. I even have two first editions of it, the one I read and a rather pristine one as a sort of personal […]
I’ve noticed it for a while and it’s been commented on by many but, for some reason, it really got to me this week. Right now, three of the 14 NYTBR nonfiction paperback bestsellers deal with visiting heaven. In fact, one has been on the nonfiction bestseller list for 132 weeks. That’s right: “nonfiction.”
The […]
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