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Friday, July 18, 2025

Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud by Peter Watson

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The book about everything by the man who’s read everything I had previously read Peter Watson’s book The Modern Mind: An Intellectual Hi...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

The Master of Jalna by Mazo de la Roche

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Hard times on the family farm The Master of Jalna , published in 1933, is the fourth book of 16 in Canadian author Mazo de la Roche’s ser...
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Monday, June 23, 2025

The Dark Mother by Waldo Frank

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Annoyingly overwrought relationships spoil promising prose Waldo Frank The Dark Mother , published in 1920, is the third novel I’ve ...
Friday, June 20, 2025

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould

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A fascinating biological saga somewhat tediously presented Paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) wrote ...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

The Producer: John Hammond and the Soul of American Music by Dunstan Prial

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One of jazz and rock’s most influential tastemakers As a fan of classic rock music, I know of John Hammond as the record producer and Col...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

The Shadow Puppet by Georges Simenon

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Only murder in the building First published in 1912, The Shadow Puppet is the twelfth novel in Belgian author Georges Simenon’s series o...
Monday, June 9, 2025

The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson

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Boring horror quest with creepy marital advice English author William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) got his start writing nautical adventure ...