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On Reading Tana French’s In the Wood

Posted by By Jim Bauman February 4, 2025Posted inBooks and CommentaryTags: Book Review, In the Woods, Mystery, Tana French
Book review of Tana French's first Dublin Murder Squad series. A good read that offers up more than you'd expect from a murder mystery.
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A Nobelist’s Not Best Work

Posted by By Jim Bauman February 4, 2025Posted inBooks and CommentaryTags: Criticism, Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
The Nobelist Kazuo Ishiguro pegged his book When We Were Orphans as not his best book. The jacket blurbs though were heaped with praise. It was an interesting difference of opinion to explore.
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A Half Century of Our Discontent

Posted by By Jim Bauman February 4, 2025Posted inBooks and CommentaryTags: Book Review, Capitalism, Steinbeck, The 1960's, Winter of Our Discontent
John Steinbeck published The Winter of Our Discontent in 1961. Like all his novels, it was rooted in the environment and in the time period in which he wrote it. It still speaks accurately, though, to the world of the mid 2020's.
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