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  I honestly don't remember how this book got on my radar. I clearly read about it somewhere, in passing, and was interested enough to o...

  Here's at least one argument for reading as much as possible when you're young: One of life's great pleasures is to re-read a ...

  This one was kind of a hard read, but not in the sense that it was hard to work my way through, but that I...well, I guess I can say I str...

  The first I'd heard of Matt Haig was when a friend recommended The Humans last fall. Read it. Loved it. Then I read another--How to St...

Esther Perel has been around for a while (this book was published in 2006), but may be having a bit of a moment presently, or I'm just c...

A nice thing about branding this exercise “tiny book reviews” is that I can read a book, post its picture, write only a couple of not-very-d...

  I suppose the point might be overstated, but I often feel something a little other-worldly when reading a novel written by someone from a ...

Shippensburg Area Intermediate School. I like this building.     The SASD Board of Directors is comprised of nine members, each serving a fo...

Spurred in part by my enduring curiosity about the man, but maybe mostly because the title was available in audio from my library, I jumped ...

  Of the New York Times list of five best works of fiction in 2020, this is the third I've reviewed.  It's a popular book; it took s...

  Valerie's been trying to get me to read Anne Tyler for ages. I'm not sure why I haven't. I needed something to read. I asked V...

If you don't know, John Brennan was CIA Director during Obama's second term. He also worked in the White House during Obama's fi...

I think I've been awed by every Pulitzer Prize winning book I've ever read. Except this one. There are books that at first don't...

 In the spring of 2001, I was finishing a two-year, full-time MBA at the University of Utah, interviewing for jobs, and applying to doctoral...

The second work of fiction on the NYTimes list of 2020's top ten that I took on, Deacon King Kong was a delightfully fun read. It wasn...