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Reading round-up 2021

December 31, 2021

Time for my annual reading round-up! I set a modest goal this year to read 30 books. This was down …

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Is listening to a book “reading”? It better be!

December 30, 2019

It felt great to get my reading mojo back in 2019. In previous years my reading-for-pleasure really tanked. Busy with …

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Essay collection review: All the Wild Hungers by Karen Babine

April 13, 2019

What do you do when life ceases to make sense? When your 65-year-old mom is diagnosed with a childhood cancer, …

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Review: Laura Ingalls Is Ruining My Life

November 28, 2017

Laura Ingalls Is Ruining My Life by Shelley Tougas My rating: 5 of 5 stars What a delightful book! Right …

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Review of new Patty Hearst book by Jeffrey Toobin

August 1, 2016

American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst was not what I expected. Since …

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Thoughts on the negative book review

April 23, 2016

What do you think of a “bad” book review? I’m not talking about a reviewer who brings up a couple of …

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Review of Chris Offutt’s “My Father the Pornographer”

February 28, 2016

I reviewed My Father the Pornographer by Chris Offutt for the Feb. 21 Minneapolis StarTribune. Even though the discovery of his …

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Book review: The Grammar of God

September 28, 2015

My review of Aviya Kushner’s THE GRAMMAR OF GOD: A JOURNEY INTO THE WORLDS AND WORDS OF THE BIBLE, appears …

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Review of Oliver Sacks’ “Hallucinations”

August 30, 2015

In November 2012 I wrote a review of “Hallucinations” for the Minneapolis StarTribune. RIP, Oliver Sacks. Your words will live …

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