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Saturday, December 15, 2012

What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love (Carole Radziwill)

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My sister the pop-culture nut, the one who recommended Jeannie out of the Bottle to me, loves the Kennedys, especially John Jr. and Car...
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Sunday, November 18, 2012

The Class (Erich Segal)

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The Class is a bittersweet and engaging, if not profound, coming-of-age story of five Harvard students, class of 1958: Danny is an in...
Saturday, October 27, 2012

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

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When I engaged in a debate with the person who recommended the Steve Jobs biography to me, he suggested that a person can’t be a great ...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Fifty Shades of Grey (E L James)

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Fifty Shades of Grey has given me little to analyze, no great plot to praise, no complex characters to critique.  The writing, while t...
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Friday, July 13, 2012

Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest (Gregg Olsen)

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In 1911, before medical school was required to obtain a license to practice medicine, the domineering and charismatic Dr. Linda Burfiel...
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Friday, June 1, 2012

Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut)

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I’d gotten a good sense of Kurt Vonnegut’s biting wit after reading Slaughterhouse Five , so I wasn’t expecting Breakfast of Champions ...
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Monday, May 14, 2012

My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner (Meir Shalev)

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Before last month, I had read three books by Israeli authors.  The first was a Holocaust narrative, and the others were novels describi...
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