John R. Schwartz

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John R. Schwartz

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in Galveston, Tx, The United States
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Average rating: 3.7 · 1,426 ratings · 255 reviews · 3 distinct worksSimilar authors
Oddly Normal: One Family's ...

3.77 avg rating — 1,090 ratings — published 2012 — 14 editions
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This is the Year I Put My F...

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Short: Walking Tall When Yo...

3.48 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions
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Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
"This book is 150 to 200 pages too long, no question. It starts out kind of Godfather/Don Winslow set in India and drifts along through a soap opera, ending with a jumbled party and a the more things change the more they stay the same vibe. The struct" Read more of this review »
There Is Nothing For You Here by Fiona  Hill
"Very good, very earnest. I liked that Hill compares. the populist movements in the United States, the UK, and Russia. She sees similarities in the decay of the rural areas with the loss of coal and manufacturing in rust belt towns and the lack of gov" Read more of this review »
The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
"I enjoyed rereading it. The novel is about the Jekyll and Hyde nature of the late 1800s in England --a time when the old Victorian stuffiness and aristocratic stratification was giving way to a looser morality and a more anything goes sensibility. Bu" Read more of this review »
Waiting for the Monsoon by Rod Nordland
" Correction: I DID meet Nordland a couple of times when he was on home visits, but didn't really get to know him. ...more "
Waiting for the Monsoon by Rod Nordland
"A beautiful brave book. My husband worked for Newsweek and the NYT and while he never met Nordland, we would talk about him sometimes so he has been a real character to me for a long time. I did read his story about his diagnosis and the murder of cr" Read more of this review »
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25x33 Walker Papers — 143 members — last activity Dec 05, 2014 01:56PM
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