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American On Purpose and Official Book Club Selection
Last year saw two of my favorite comedians with books on the New York Times Bestseller list: Craig Ferguson and Kathy Griffin. Having been longtime fans of both, I was pleased at their success. Unlike… more →
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American On Purpose and Official Book Club Selection
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wrote 2 days ago: Last year saw two of my favorite comedians with books on the New York Times Bestseller list: Craig F … more →
Places Left Unfinished At The Time Of Creation, by John Phillip Santos
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wrote 1 month ago: How little I knew about Southern Texas and the Mexican border country before I read this atmospheric … more →
Adventures With Ari by Kathryn Miles
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wrote 6 months ago: Imagine having your attitude adjusted by a puppy. I know that sounds like a commercial tagline for a … more →
Mrs Duberly’s War ~ edited by Christine Kelly
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wrote 6 months ago: Journal and Letters from the Crimea “The past is a another country, they do things differently there … more →
Pimp: The Story of My Life ~ by Iceberg Slim
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wrote 7 months ago: Following yesterday’s interview with Jamie Byng, Jay Benedict takes a detailed look at Pimp: T … more →
Poetry Week: Wednesday Early Closing ~ by Norman Nicholson
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wrote 7 months ago: A Review and overview by David Boyd. Norman Nicholson (NN) was first and foremost a ‘man of Millom’, … more →
Six Months in Sudan by James Maskalyk
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wrote 7 months ago: People are hungry to be brought closer to the world, even its hard parts. I went to Sudan, and am wr … more →
Speaking For Myself by Cherie Blair
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wrote 9 months ago: The first time I recall seeing Cherie Blair was when she was a guest on Jay Leno’s talk show last wi … more →
Gut him in the friendly in a fortnight
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wrote 9 months ago: Bill Doonan from Cavan was a radio operator in the Irish Army who found the Emergency a bit dull so … more →
Queen of the Wits: a life of Laetitia Pilkington, by Norma Clarke.
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wrote 9 months ago: This review is a personal reaction by a non-historian – I find the 18th century a foreign coun … more →
No blacks, some dogs, lots of Irish: Paddy on the railroad
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wrote 10 months ago: Review of An Irish Navvy, Donall MacAhmlaigh, translated by Valentin Iremonger In the preface to The … more →
The Drunken Forest, by Gerald Durrell
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wrote 11 months ago: Article by Michelle Lewis And, indeed, the whole landscape did look as though nature had organized a … more →
The Language of Fidel: the Story of the Sierra Maestra
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wrote 11 months ago: And so the war was over. Our army grew very rapidly towards the end, because in December 1958 we had … more →
Come On Shore & We Will Kill & Eat You All by Christina Thompson
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wrote 11 months ago: When most people think of New Zealand, if at all, it’s as the location where Lord of the Rings was f … more →
Fidel Castro: Biografía a dos voces, with Ignacio Ramonet: Part I
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wrote 1 year ago: But they say that Che had Trotskyist sympathies. Did you see this at that point? No, no. Let me te … more →
The Rhino With Glue-on Shoes by Lucy H. Spelman DVM
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wrote 1 year ago: The author gathered 29 other zoo vets from all over the world and each contributed a chapter to this … more →
Bringing Home the Birkin by Michael Tonello
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wrote 1 year ago: I don’t know why I picked up this book, I don’t even own a purse. Perhaps it’s the influence of my s … more →
Are You Somebody? by Nuala O'Faolain
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wrote 1 year ago: Before Are You Somebody? was published, Nuala O’Faolain was a minor Irish celebrity, a opinion colum … more →
Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama
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wrote 1 year ago: Dreams From My Father, an early autobiography by Barack Obama, was written 13 years ago in 1995 afte … more →
