Review of Belfast (the movie)
Review of Belfast (the movie). I don’t review many movies but I have been wanting to see this for more than a year. After spending time...
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Review of All the Light We Cannot See
Review of All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer (2014). This book was the winner of the Pulizter Prize and is set during WWII...
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Apr 5, 20231 min read
Review of The Diamond Eye
Review of The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn. I recently read and loved Kate Quinn’s book The Rose Code about 3 women code breakers of WWII,...
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Jan 30, 20231 min read
Review of Living in a Poem
Review of Living in a Poem by Tom Norman. I loved the slim volume of poems by Tom Norman. The poems varied from stories about his own...
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Jan 27, 20231 min read
Review of Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Review of Caste: the Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson. I had read Isabel Wilkerson’s first book The Great Migration last...
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Jan 7, 20231 min read
Review of The Warmth of Other Suns
Review of The Warmth of Other Suns. My list of books to be read is hopelessly long and getting longer. Isabel Wilkerson’s masterpiece...
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Nov 4, 20221 min read
Review of The Rose Code
The Rose Code. This historical fiction by Kate Quinn takes you into the code breaking activities of Bletchley Park. The book is...
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May 13, 20221 min read
Review of The Right
Review of The Right: The Hundred Year War for American Conservatism by Matthew Continetti (2022). Continette is a Fellow at the American...
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May 4, 20221 min read
Review of American Dirt
Review of American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins. This wonderful, page-turner of a novel, meticulously researched by Jeanine Cummins, takes...
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Jan 27, 20221 min read
Review of Midnight in Washington
Review of Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff. Congressman Adam Schiff was a federal...
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Dec 10, 20212 min read
Review of Collected Essays of James Baldwin
Review of Collected Essays of James Baldwin edited by Toni Morrison. When I was an undergraduate at Marshall University I read James...
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Dec 5, 20212 min read
The Get Back Documentary
I finished watching the almost 8 hours of the Get Back Documentary on Disney. This consists of video and sound recordings of the Beatles...
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Nov 5, 20212 min read
Review of There is Nothing for You Here by Dr. Fiona Hill
Book Review of There is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21rst Century by Fiona Hill. This is one of the best books I...
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Aug 6, 20211 min read
Review of The Forgotten 500
Book Review of The Forgotten 500 by Gregory A. Freeman (2007). This is the full account, using recently declassified information, of the...
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May 20, 20211 min read
Review of Secret Son
I read Laila Lalami’s Pulitzer Prize finalist book The Moor’s Account several years ago and loved it. This book, Secret Son, provides the...
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May 19, 20211 min read
Review of A History of God
I finally read Karen Armstrong’s 1993 best seller A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The book...
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Apr 13, 20211 min read
Review of The Three Mothers
Review of The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation Anna Malaika Tubbs...
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Review of The Hemingway Stories
Selected and edited by Tobias Wolff, The Hemingway Stories is a collection of some of the best of Hemingway’s short stories that are...
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Feb 15, 20211 min read
Review of Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey through his Son's Addiction by David Sheff
This is the story of a well-educated, upper middle class family that struggles through their son’s addiction. It is one of the most...
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Jan 5, 20211 min read
Review of The Bay of Pigs: An Oral History of Brigade 2506
I have traveled to (including the Bay of Pigs), researched about, and written about Cuba but this is the first extensive oral history...
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