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Laura
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| I loved the early Kay Scarpetta books and then lost interest as Patricia Cornwell wrote less and less about solving crimes and more and more about the internal lives of Kay and his emotionally fragile sidekicks. This book is more like the early books...more | |
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Laura
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| I generally like Nelson DeMille and his John Corey character - but this book was not a favorite. For one thing, Corey as a character tends to have a smart mouth, so when he's the narrator of the story you get a lot of smart-mouth commentary. This is...more | |
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I received a review copy of this book for a BookBrowse book discussion. So here's the story line: Tia has an affair with Nathan, who is married to Juliette. Tia gets pregnant; Nathan dumps her; so Tia puts the baby up for adoption. Peter and Caroline...more |
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| Edo Potter's memoir of her time spent on a small farm on Chappaquiddick Island during the 1930s and '40s is not great literature, but it is an interesting read. She tells of freely roaming the largely unpopulated island and offers details of life mos...more | |
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Laura
rated a book 3 of 5 stars
Pandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal
by Melanie Warner
read in May, 2013
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| Warner's discussion of the prevalence of processed food and how it gets that way is reminiscent of Fast Food Nation - only more chemical, less bad treatment of livestock. Somehow the idea that we strip all of the nutrients out of a soybean, and then...more | |
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Laura
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| I think one of the marks of a good fictional biographer is that the reader comes away from the book with a strong sense of what the characters were like - whether they were likable or not. Melanie Benjamin accomplishes this. At the end of the story i...more | |
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Laura
rated a book 4 of 5 stars
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| On the plus side, Eric Metaxas's biography of German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was hung by the Nazis for his participation in a plot to assassinate Hitler (a mere three weeks before Hitler killed himself), is meticulously researched, relying he...more | |
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Laura
rated a book 3 of 5 stars
The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great
by Eva Stachniak (Goodreads Author)
read in April, 2013
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| Stachniak's piece of historical fiction, centered on Barbara, a servant and spy in the court of Elizabeth I of Russia, provides the back story for the accession of Catherine the Great to the throne of "All the Russias." It is a smooth and easy read,...more | |
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Laura
rated a book 4 of 5 stars
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| This useful and interesting book describes the ways in which storytelling is helpful as a leadership tool and provides lots of examples. There's also excellent advice on how to craft a good (brief) story to suit a variety of circumstances. It's both...more | |
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