Showing posts with label book review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book review. Show all posts
Thursday, May 2, 2024

Highly recommended: 'Your Table Is Ready'

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Drugs, sex, rock ‘n’ roll… And would you like some food with that?  That pretty well sums up the first half of Your Table Is Ready by Micha...
Thursday, August 24, 2023

Gottlieb's 'Avid Reader' highly recommended for the wordy

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Like so many other memoirs, I was led to Avid  Reader: A Life (2016)  by the obituary of the author, Robert Gottlieb (1931-2023), the exal...
Monday, December 26, 2022

Book review: 'We Carry Their Bones' shocks

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I shunned this book when I saw it on the shelf of new non-fiction titles at the Falls Church library, knowing a little of the story and the ...
Friday, November 11, 2022

The best audio book ever! 'Be My Baby'

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I have listened to many audiobooks but none as great as Be My Baby: A Memoir by Ronnie Spector, the lead singer of the Ronettes who relea...
Monday, August 29, 2022

Book review: 'The Gatsby Affair' was not

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I suppose the insertion of the word "affair" in the title of any book would help it sell better. Surely, a Ph.D. student has rese...
Thursday, May 26, 2022

Another must for journalists: Carl Bernstein's book

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  You know it's a "must." He's a "must" for anyone who's a news-aholic, and/or in the writing business (whic...
Monday, February 28, 2022

'Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy,' highly recommended

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  Ethel Rosenberg was killed by the U.S. government because of her spouse. Without evidence or proof that she committed treasonous acts wort...
Sunday, December 5, 2021

Book review: 'The Columnist' by Donald A. Ritchie, highly recommended for journalism scholars

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Who's the Drew Pearson now? I can think of no one who fits the bill. Drew Pearson (1897-1969) was a muckraking journalist who helped s...
Thursday, November 4, 2021

Book review: 'The Woman Who Stole Vermeer'

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  Rose Dugdale  is 80 years old this year and practically an icon in Ireland where she romped and fought the British for years. Always proud...
Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Book review: 'The Assassination of Trotsky'

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A Diego Rivera mural depicts Trotsky with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, "true champions of the workers' struggle." Part of t...
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Rating the Trump books

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I haven't read the estimated  4,500 Trump books which is the amount the Guardian estimates has been  published since he took office in ...
Tuesday, June 22, 2021

John Bolton's hilarious 'Room' of their own

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You just thought Trump 's White House was chaotic. Readers, not only was it chaotic, but John Bolton is here to tell you it was lots ...