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| A variant on the "last man" theme, this is about the last 40 women. It's told by the youngest, whose entire life was in an underground cage before a freak event set them all free in an evidently unpopulated world. Kafkaesque, yes, and few answers are ...more | |
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| Going in, I knew nothing of Reynolds, other than having seen his name on a lot of paperback spines. The clincher for buying this was the Sherlock Holmes pastiche. Well, Reynolds is a thorough surprise, his stories often spun from economics, sociology ...more | |
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| Overlook the title if you can. As Nick Hornby has observed, a better title might be "Stuff You Didn't Know About Jazz but Would Like to." This is a primer on a music that some of us rock fans are curious about but, because it's largely instrumental, ...more | |
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| The latest collection of his Believer columns, this takes us from 2017 to early 2022, telling us what Hornby has been reading (and buying) and what he liked. His roughly 50-50 split between fiction and nonfiction, nearly all of them recent as well, d ...more | |
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| I was a bit reluctant to get started on this, having read only the first Lucy Barton novel and modestly liking it. Was Strout not for me? But this, a collection of linked stories set in Crosby, Maine, was revelatory. Each story landed, whether the ir ...more | |
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| Loosely organized around the four elements, Waldie's collection of essays focuses on corners of regional history, many nearly forgotten. He recounts the St. Francis Dam disaster; explores smog and smudging; sheds light on the history of street illumi ...more | |
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| We've no doubt learned much more about desert wildlife in the 65 years since Jaeger's book was published, but it's mildly enjoyable reading even for a non-naturalist. Jaeger died in 1983 at age 96 in Riverside, California. His field observations of n ...more | |
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| Orlando Davidson’s second mystery is a sequel to 2023’s “Baseline Road.” Picking up two years after the first, which was set in 1974 Claremont, California and environs, this one again follows sheriff’s Sgt. Jimmy Sommes as he gets pulled into a homic ...more | |
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| This noir novel is set in Claremont, California, and environs in 1972, when a San Bernardino County sheriff’s investigator (male) and a Claremont Police detective (female), both best friends, team up to solve a post-Kent State bombing at the Claremon ...more | |