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This is well written and engrossing. The delusional Christian father who takes his wife and four girls on a mission to bring Jesus to the Congo in 1960. BK gives touching insights without being maudlin and without constantly preening with precious wri ...more |
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| Pleasant and engaging. Sitting from a position of wry perspective, Alda spins tales of his life growing up in the saucy days of vaudeville to his high school days under the thumb of the Catholic church - he favored the former. Not all light hearted c ...more | |
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The Pulitzer? DK writes well, but often too well or more precisely far too indulgently…there’s a five page sentence that explicates some version of hell. I had read Whalefall and it reminded me of Life of Pi in that an author takes a ridiculous premise ...more |
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Ah the odes of shakepeare—Pete Rose, an American Tragedy. Hard scrabble working class life being curated by a dad who hungered for his son to make it in sport when he never did. Underweight and undersized until a winter loading rail cars gave him his f ...more |
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Ah the odes of shakepeare—Pete Rose, an American Tragedy. Hard scrabble working class life being curated by a dad who hungered for his son to make it in sport when he never did. Underweight and undersized until a winter loading rail cars gave him his f ...more |
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(2.8) so the monsters is an on the nose allegory for the LGBTQ+ folks and the fact that several of the characters are in those groups make the symbolism painfully obvious… Oh and chanting how monsters aren’t to be feared when one is a creature without ...more |
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So Farewell is a dense read chock full of charts and graphs. Any qualm, questions, inconsistency one might have the author addresses with a whirlwind of info… Man moved from Hunter gatherer to big Agra even though there were many countervailing reason ...more |
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“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...”
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Obviously they're going to be a lot less limited in publication than fiction, and I hardly have to explain why. I just don't quite understand why no decent results come back when I Google "top nonfiction picks published in 2025"... before 2024, I'd always find at least a few I was interested in each month, but ever since then, not so much. Is it just me? If it is, throw some suggestions my way? I'd greatly appreciate it if you know of any.