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Bookies Takeover

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In a bloodless coup, I managed to “take over” the Bookies Book Blog on Facebook on October 12, 2020. Host Beccie Weaver invited me to take over her blog site for two hours with full administrative powers. As far as I know, nobody got hurt in the peaceful transition. God bless America!





I decided to share my time with “Friends of Jamie McVay” by hosting interviews with a number of other

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Kaplan's broad understanding of the world is on full display here, along with/including the depth of his historical knowledge. Stylistically a little difficult, but just full of interesting observations of the ways geography determines the fates of n ...more
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Sort of a fun book--a retelling of RLS's Treasure Island, but relocated to Niven's Known Space universe of the alien rat-cats the Kzin. Interesting to see how the author created the parallels, from the obvious plot points to the characters. Always be ...more
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The Sentence takes us inside the lives of Native American characters in the modern setting of Minneapolis, describing their responses to the COVID pandemic and the riots over racial injustice after the George Floyd killing. As usual, Erdrich gives us ...more
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Here's another great Snoopypuss Mystery from Georgann Prochaska. If you like your mysteries cozy and your stiffs wrapped in plastic, you'll enjoy this one. The Old Codger in question has passed on before the narrative's beginning, but the reclusive o ...more
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American Wolf by Nate Blakeslee
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Outstanding book about the wolves of Yellowstone and the people who devote much of their lives to studying them. This skillfully written book captures the land in all its brutal beauty, as it follows the lineage of one particular pack of wolves intro ...more
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“The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.”
Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi




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