Friday, December 16, 2011 11:51:00 AM
This compelling new book by Christopher McDougall is subtitled as "A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen" and reading it feels like watching an incredible race. When I first heard of it I was sitting off to...
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Saturday, November 26, 2011 1:29:00 PM
I picked up this book on a whim from Amazon thinking it would be a good way to keep up on my Spanish colloquisms. I haven't been able to put it down even though it feels like I have been reading the same poems out of it forever. I have really...
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Monday, October 10, 2011 10:04:00 AM
A much lauded collection of seventeen pieces of short fiction by Borges, I picked up my copy on Amazon not knowing what to expect of this acclaimed Argentinian author. I think I was hoping to discover a contemporary of Gabriel Garcia Marquez whose...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010 10:24:06 AM
Well I ended up setting 'The Greatest Show on Earth' aside for awhile and checking this book out of our local library. Marie Winn tells the story of a red-tail hawk (Pale Male) that arrives in New York City's Central Park and the ensuing drama of...
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Sunday, January 17, 2010 11:57:39 AM
This book just hasn't been grabbing me, being a biology major in college most of the material is well worn territory. It seems the author is making a slow argument for evolution for (non)believers when I started out the book already convinced. I...
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Thursday, January 7, 2010 11:03:42 AM
A very enjoyable recounting of Kenn's early years on the road, chasing birds and bird lists with a fervor known only to those in the grip of an obsession. I found his criss crossing the country by thumb a friendly reminder of how much times have...
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Sunday, December 27, 2009 3:08:52 PM
We enjoy traveling and sampling new cultures and cuisines while we do. The next best thing to traveling is watching Anthony Bourdain travel. His sarcastic yet sincere form of commentary and improvisational style of travel really gets me chuckling....
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Tuesday, December 8, 2009 9:11:01 AM
A facinating and poetic read that draws the reader into the world of inner troubles and sorrow inhabited by its characters. John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are cowboys working the stock of the Southern New Mexican ranchlands. Their encounters...
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Saturday, December 5, 2009 9:00:00 PM
A powerful and emotive novel about the involvement of a International Corp dynamiter named Robert Jordan in the Spanish Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War. My footsteps have crossed Hemingway's in many places, Montana, Idaho, Valencia and...
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Monday, November 9, 2009 9:00:00 PM
This is a classic that I was long overdue in getting around to. We stayed a couple days in Monterey Bay in the summer of 2008 on our way back from Grand Lodge in Anaheim that year. We wanted to see the aquarium and maybe some kayaking, but mostly we ...
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