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Monday, May 4, 2015

Burning Down George Orwell's House by Andrew Ervin

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Review by Amy Henry I think everyone has held the “cottage by the sea” dream aloft in our imagination, thinking at times it to be...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

Sea of Storms by Stuart B. Schwartz (Hurricanes in Caribbean)

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A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina Hurricanes have the power to fascinate us, as do earthq...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

You Will Never Find Me by Robert Wilson (Europa World Noir)

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I was so disappointed with this novel. I normally love Europa Edition's World Noir series, and I've read every single one of Wils...
Monday, April 13, 2015

Adeline by Norah Vincent

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Norah Vincent is trying to recreate the days leading up to Virginia Woolf's suicide, when she put stones in her pockets and waded in...
Thursday, April 9, 2015

Bettyville by George Hodgman

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"Nor is she sentimental. Inside a silver locket she has worn for years, a gift from my father, are the stock photographs of the st...
Thursday, February 5, 2015

Notes from Underground by Roger Scruton (Czech history, Communism, samizdat)

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"...attempts at difference had the opposite effect to the one intended. For they emphasized that, in the midst of this randomness, ...
Friday, January 30, 2015

As I Said by Lev Loseff (bilingual Russian edition)

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This bilingual collection of the poems of Lev Loseff begins with a preemptory acknowledgement, by series editor Jean Boase-Beier, of th...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

All the Birds Singing, by Evie Wyld

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I read Wyld's first book After the Fire,A Small Still Voice a few years ago and loved the suspense she creates.  Eager to read this...

Remember Me Like This by Bret Anthony Johnston

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The first thing I liked about this novel is the region: the Texas Gulf Coast. I read a lot and I seriously can't remember any taking...
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2015 Maritime Reading Challenge

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2015 Maritime Reading Challenge Andrew Wyeth It's been ages since I've suggested a Reading Challenge, and this one is a...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

A Backpack, A Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir by Lev Golinkin

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If you are in your 40s, you probably remember the end of the Cold War quite well.  Before that, the Soviet Union was portrayed by the me...
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Russian Tattoo by Elena Gorokhova

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Elena Gorokhova's A Mountain of Crumbs was a riveting memoir (given to me by a dear friend who knows and shares my obsession for al...

The Walk Home by Rachel Seiffert

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Family.  The most complicated and difficult and rewarding of relationships.  This is an exploration of an unconventional family in an un...

Wolf Winter by Cecelia Ekback

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One of my favorite books ever is "Growth of the Soil" by Knut Hamsun, and I kept thinking of it as I read this novel.  Much of...

DEEP: Freediving, Renegade Science and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves by James Nestor

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Alternative title: Smart People Who Do Astonishingly Scary Things Before you start reading this book, head on over to Youtube and loo...

Watch Me Go, new fiction from Mark Wisniewski

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“…when you really want something and almost get it but then don’t—like when you lose a bet on a long shot by a nose—you taste both succe...