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Books: Best and Worst of 2005

Joining the rest of the world, here’s my take on the best (and worst) books of 2005. With one exception (the first), they are listed in alphabetical order. Where I’ve posted longer reviews I’ve got a link to the review here (PP) and/or on Blogcritics (BC). There may or may not be significant differences between […]

Book briefs

The first in an intermittent series of brief reviews of books that, for whatever, reason, didn’t lead to longer reviews:

In the Country of Last Things, Paul Auster

A rather literary examination of the struggle to live and survive in a society that has collapsed. The book takes the form of a letter from Anna […]

South Dakota book notes

The South Dakota Center for the Book has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for The Big Read, a national program to encourage reading by asking communities to read and discuss one book. According to the news report, Brookings and Sioux Falls will read To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

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Book Review: Fog Facts (2005)

Larry Beinhart’s Fog Facts never quite settles on whether it wants to be a Bush-bashing book, a book on the failings of the mainstream media or both. Ultimately, it probably doesn’t matter because there are better efforts out there in each category.

Supposedly, the book’s theme is that there are certain facts or significant news […]

Book Review: Festivus: The Holiday for the Rest of Us (2005)

As Festivus approaches (Dec. 23), today is also the anniversary of the December 18, 1997, airing of the Seinfeld episode that gave the “holiday” its current renown in popular culture. In honor of that anniversary, I am going to invoke a Festivus tradition a tad early — the Airing of Grievances. My grievance is directed […]