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Book of December 20, 2009
I would have said that France is one of the countries least in need of discovery, but Graham Robb shows me how very, very wrong I was.
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Book of December 13, 2009
Quick-reading epistolary novel about the German occupation of Guernsey in World War II.
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Book of December 6, 2009
I am going to put aside my uncertainties and talk about Oscar Wao and what it seemed like to me, regardless of authorial intention (which is so last millennium, anyway).
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Book of November 29, 2009
The original rollerskate tour of the impact of disease on world history. One of the books that has influenced my thinking the most.
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Book of November 12, 2009
Dispatches from a native of FanBoyLand, as he tries to feel out the borders of masculinity.
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Book of November 9, 2009
A rollerskate tour of the current state of scholarship on this pivotal but ill-understood period in European history.
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Book of November 7, 2009
A journalist weaves together stories of archaeological discoveries, the Cultural Revolution, and the changing economic and social landscape of 21st-century China.
Book of November 5, 2009
The Iliad as a guide to the precipitating factors for PTSD: death of your best friend, a sense of betrayal by higher-ups, instability. Alas, not at all out-of-date.
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Book of October 18, 2009
I grew up in a household both deeply intellectual and deeply spiritual, raised by parents (one Irish Catholic, one Swedish/German Lutheran) who take it as a given that these things can go together.
January 22, 2010
Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South’s Ancient Chiefdoms, by Charles Hudson