Tag: fiction
member name: Pat D.
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November 08, 2009 02:59 PM EST --
Today I was browsing in a book store, and I left empty handed and discouraged. I didn't find anything I wanted to read enough to buy.
The popular offerings are dominated by vampire fiction. . . .
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March 03, 2009 03:54 PM EST --
This was an impulse read. I was walking through the library, and the spine of this book caught my eye. It was not on my “to read” list, but I’m glad I went with the impulse.
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February 22, 2007 11:59 AM EST --
This book is a series of related short stories. Each stands on its own, but as a group, a larger story emerges. The girl in the title is a painting. The stories follow the painting as . . .
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February 15, 2009 05:36 PM EST --
I recently finished reading “The Plot Against America” by Philip Roth., and I have mixed feelings about this book.
The book is a fictional account of how things would have been if Charles . . .
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April 06, 2007 01:10 PM EDT --
The full title of this book is "Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science".
In this collection of essays, Dr Gawande gives the reader a glimpse of . . .
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February 05, 2007 01:22 PM EST --
I picked up ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’ when it was selection for book group I belong to. The book group fizzled out, but I am grateful to the members for bringing . . .
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February 21, 2009 10:20 AM EST --
In light of current events, I decided to pick up a book on economics. “The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers” by Robert L. Heilbroner was . . .
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August 30, 2009 05:30 PM EDT --
1.) Plot Against America by Phillip Roth (fiction) Interesting, well written
2.) Worldly Philosophers b y Robert L. Heilbroner (nonfiction) - overview of western economic thought. Not as . . .
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