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Chevron Ross rated a book really liked it White Noise by Don DeLillo	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Are some people too smart for their own good? Or are they just good at rationalizing? Author Don DeLillo introduces a community of philosophical buffoons in his hilarious satire, White Noise. Jack Gladney is chairman of the Department of Hitler Studie ...more
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Chevron Ross rated a book really liked it The Lies We Trade by Kristine Delano (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Unless you’re well-versed in the investment business, The Lies We Trade may read like a foreign language. Kristine Delano brings twenty years of Wall Street experience to bear with her debut novel. Meredith Hansel, an investment portfolio manager for ...more
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Chevron Ross rated a book really liked it Buckeye by Patrick Ryan (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I struggle with books like Buckeye. Their authors write so well, their characters are so engaging, and their subject matter is so interesting. The one thing their stories lack is decency. Take Cal Jenkins, son of a bitter World War I veteran. After Pe ...more
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Chevron Ross rated a book it was amazing The Labors of Hercules Beal by Gary D. Schmidt	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Gary D. Schmidt has won my heart with another of his delightful novels about middle-school kids. The latest is a youngster with the improbable name of Hercules Beal. His brother’s name is Achilles. The Beal brothers live in Truro, a small New England ...more
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Chevron Ross rated a book it was amazing The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Although The Memory Police appeared more than thirty years ago, it speaks to the present moment, when sinister forces work to destroy human freedom and initiative. A nameless narrator describes how squads of police officials sweep through her island c ...more
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Chevron Ross rated a book really liked it East of Eden by John Steinbeck	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
East of Eden is one of those famous books I’ve always meant to read but have put off until now. In case you’ve been doing the same thing, here are my impressions. This is supposed to be a retelling of the Biblical Cain and Abel story, but you might no ...more
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Chevron Ross rated a book it was amazing The Tin Can Tree by Anne Tyler (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Published in 1965, The Tin Can Tree was Anne Tyler’s second novel. Though she was only 24, her unique insight into human beings shines brightly in this story of tattered relationships. Three families, the Pikes, the Greens, and the Potters, share a ho ...more
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Chevron Ross rated a book liked it Twist by Colum McCann (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Until I read Twist, I didn’t know that the Cloud is deep in the ocean, not high in the sky. If it accomplishes nothing else, Colum McCann’s novel makes us realize how fragile the internet is and how easily it can collapse. Anthony Fennell, a burned-ou ...more
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Chevron Ross rated a book really liked it Pescadero by Hollis Brady (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Families are falling apart in this well-written tale featuring Hilde, a 14-year-old farm girl. Her mother Jasmine drags the kids to California, leaving their father behind in Wisconsin. Meanwhile two desperate Hispanic men, Joaquin and Fernando, try ...more
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Are some people too smart for their own good? Or are they just good at rationalizing? Author Don DeLillo introduces a community of philosophical buffoons in his hilarious satire, White Noise.

Jack Gladney is chairman of the Department of Hitler Studie Are some people too smart for their own good? Or are they just good at rationalizing? Author Don DeLillo introduces a community of philosophical buffoons in his hilarious satire, White Noise.

Jack Gladney is chairman of the Department of Hitler Studies at his college. His colleagues are pseudointellectuals with crackpot theories. His friend Murray says that people can be divided into two categories: killers and “diers”. Killers, he explains, stow up credit like bank interest because their victims die while the killers live on. When asked how he knows so much Murray explains, “I’m from New York.”

The atmosphere affects even Jack’s family, evoking solemn discussions: Do people know all the parts of their bodies? Do sheep have eyelashes? How do astronauts float? Some consider television a psychic medium, and the TV in their house is always active, an electronic guru emitting poisonous non sequiturs.

Though Jack claims his department is internationally known, he seems to spend little time on Hitler except for a dueling conversation about Hitler’s mother and Elvis Presley. Jack has been head of the department since 1968, but he doesn’t speak German and is secretly taking German lessons from a man obsessed with meteorology as a way to recover from his mother’s death. Jack is also concerned about his wife Babette, who teaches posture classes in a church basement and whose memory seems to be failing because of her gum-chewing habit.

Jack is obsessed with death. He and Babette agonize about which of them will die first. Meanwhile, their son’s best friend is trying to break the world record for sitting in a cage with poisonous snakes. One day a toxic cloud erupts from a train derailment. Jack assures his family that the poison won’t affect them because you never hear of disasters happening to college professors.

White Noise dates from 1985, but I discovered it only recently. I would have enjoyed it more without the sexual references and a particularly disgusting passage I’d rather not dwell on. Otherwise, DeLillo’s writing is first-rate, with a madcap stream-of-consciousness style that’s irresistible. ...more

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The Lies We Trade
by Kristine Delano (Goodreads Author)

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Unless you’re well-versed in the investment business, The Lies We Trade may read like a foreign language. Kristine Delano brings twenty years of Wall Street experience to bear with her debut novel.

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I struggle with books like Buckeye. Their authors write so well, their characters are so engaging, and their subject matter is so interesting. The one thing their stories lack is decency.

Take Cal Jenkins, son of a bitter World War I veteran. After Pe ...more

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The Labors of Hercules Beal
by Gary D. Schmidt

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Gary D. Schmidt has won my heart with another of his delightful novels about middle-school kids. The latest is a youngster with the improbable name of Hercules Beal. His brother’s name is Achilles.

The Beal brothers live in Truro, a small New England ...more

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The Memory Police
by Yōko Ogawa

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Although The Memory Police appeared more than thirty years ago, it speaks to the present moment, when sinister forces work to destroy human freedom and initiative.

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East of Eden
by John Steinbeck

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East of Eden is one of those famous books I’ve always meant to read but have put off until now. In case you’ve been doing the same thing, here are my impressions.

This is supposed to be a retelling of the Biblical Cain and Abel story, but you might no East of Eden is one of those famous books I’ve always meant to read but have put off until now. In case you’ve been doing the same thing, here are my impressions.

This is supposed to be a retelling of the Biblical Cain and Abel story, but you might not guess that from the text. It involves two Civil War-era families, the Hamiltons of Salinas, California, and the Trasks of Connecticut. Adam Trask enlists in the Union Army while his half-brother Charles stays home to farm their father’s land. Adam has his father’s love; Charles does not.

The father, who is something of a blowhard, leaves his sons for an influential career in Washington, D.C. Eventually he dies, and Charles buys Adam’s share of the inheritance. Adam moves to Salinas where he becomes friends with Samuel Hamilton, who digs wells for the farmland Adam has purchased.

The kind-hearted Adam falls in love with Cathy Ames, who is undoubtedly Steinbeck’s most despicable character. She bears twin boys but wants nothing to do with them, choosing instead to become a prostitute and eventually owner of a brothel. Adam tries to protect the boys, Caleb and Aron, from this horrible truth by telling them their mother is dead. From there the story becomes a kind of philosophical soap opera with Adam and Aron as benign innocents, while Charles and Caleb have permanent marks on their heads. If there’s any further resemblance to Genesis, it’s over my head.

What makes this book worth your time is Steinbeck’s narration. Some of his scenes are so well-crafted as to make you go back and read them again. We get vivid portraits of the California farm country and how it shapes his characters’ lives. Samuel and his long-suffering wife Liza could fill a book by themselves. Adam’s Chinese servant Lee is a prophet-like figure whose wise counsel guides the others through their travails.

There are some amusing scenes, including a mechanic’s involved explanation of how to start an early-model automobile, Olive Hamilton’s traumatic ride in a stunt plane, and Adam’s attempt to get rich by shipping refrigerated lettuce from California to New York.

Overall I found the saga interesting but somewhat implausible. If you’re not familiar with Steinbeck’s work I recommend you begin with The Grapes of Wrath or Of Mice and Men before tackling this one. Be aware that Steinbeck tends to employ a lot of profanity. ...more

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The Tin Can Tree
by Anne Tyler (Goodreads Author)

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Published in 1965, The Tin Can Tree was Anne Tyler’s second novel. Though she was only 24, her unique insight into human beings shines brightly in this story of tattered relationships.

Three families, the Pikes, the Greens, and the Potters, share a ho ...more

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Twist
by Colum McCann (Goodreads Author)

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Until I read Twist, I didn’t know that the Cloud is deep in the ocean, not high in the sky. If it accomplishes nothing else, Colum McCann’s novel makes us realize how fragile the internet is and how easily it can collapse.

Anthony Fennell, a burned-ou ...more

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Families are falling apart in this well-written tale featuring Hilde, a 14-year-old farm girl. Her mother Jasmine drags the kids to California, leaving their father behind in Wisconsin. Meanwhile two desperate Hispanic men, Joaquin and Fernando, try ...more

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