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Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading ~Maureen Corrigan

Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books ~Maureen Corrigan –published 2005 –Vintage Books –201 pages –4/5 stars Last week at work, amidst a pile of manila envelopes filled with...

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At Home: A Short History of Private Life ~Bill Bryson

At Home: A Short History of Private Life ~Bill Bryson –published 2010 –Doubleday –512 pages (452 main text) –5/5 stars Books are crafty and clever things. Even when one is exercising economic...

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On the Way to Other Country

On the Way to Other Country ~C.W. Gusewelle –published 2001 –Kansas City Star Books –355 pages –9/10 I doubt that there are many people alive who have not been overtaken, on certain gray days of the...

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Just a Geek ~Wil Wheaton

Just a Geek ~Wil Wheaton –published 2004 –O-Reilly Media –269 pages –8/10 “…the plain truth is that this book is really for any kind of nerd or geek out there and as such is one I can recommend...

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Dancing Barefoot ~Wil Wheaton

This past summer I decided to give Wil Wheaton’s book Just a Geek a try after my friend Jeff went on a tear, ripping through it and raving about it the entire time. I borrowed it with the idea that I...

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What Makes This Book So Great

Ladies and Gentlemen, what you see here is a first for me. Certainly I have been tempted to do it before, but this time temptation has taken root and the result is this: a book review for a book I...

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One Summer, America 1927 ~Bill Bryson

(This is an overdue review of an audiobook completed this past May) As many of you know, I am a passionate reader of fiction. Novels and short stories dominate my reading time in any given year. In...

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