Monday, April 27, 2015

WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES by Karen Joy Fowler

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We are all completely beside ourselves is a novel of profound empathy. The story is told by Rosemary Cooke, a woman who begins her story...
Thursday, April 23, 2015

ANTHILL: A Novel by E. O. Wilson

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ANTHILL is a remarkable novel. Harvard professor E. O. Wilson has spent his life in science, devoting much of his work to the study of a...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

The Monkey's Wrench by Primo Levi

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The Monkey's Wrench is a slim, wise novel. Primo Levi begins with the simplest of circumstances, two men in a remote location who pa...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Summer of Love, A Time Travel by Lisa Mason

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Summer of Love, A Time Travel is a fine story. Lisa Mason takes three interesting characters, a time traveller from a future 500 years ...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

The Golden Road and Beyond: A Grateful Dead Primer

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I've been a Deadhead for about four decades now. It was a cassette of American Beauty that turned me on to Jerry and the gang. I know...
Friday, December 26, 2014

The Uncanny Valley: Tales from a Lost Town by Gregory Miller

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I believe in ghosts. Perhaps not ghosts in the literal sense, but I believe a person's spirit can live on, in the stories that we...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Ursula K. Le Guin: Empathy and Big Ideas

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I recently read a couple of wonderful books by Ursula K. Le Guin that reminded me once again what a gifted and skillful writer she is. Le...