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1. No Less Than Victory A Novel of World War II by Shaara. Following Rising Tide and Steel Wave, book on the final year of WWII in Europe.
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2. Shop Class as Soulcraft An Inquiry Into the Value of Work Fix motorcycles! Not quite en in the Art of, but celebrating working on things, not pushing spreadsheets around.
3. The Man Who Made Vermeers Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren A little forgery, anyone?
7. Streetlights and Shadows Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making another Klein, focusing on intuition and decision making.
11. Landscape And Memory by Simon Schama. Unlike most books in its subject, particularly the forest and frontier. Seems to tie to other things I'm reading about Roman, English, and American history.
15. Scissors, Rock, Paper: A Circular Path Through The Martial Arts Uechi-ryu camp experience. Of interest to other martial artists, but probably not everyone.
18. Hawke Ted Bell Somebody must like this stuff -- absolutely awful. Not for people who actually like books. Snobbish so-called adventure with Brits being sophisticated and deadly in gratuitous and smarmy way.
19. Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction Cute, but nothing to take away. OK, you have too many books and keep buying more. Stick with Basbanes.
20. Books: A Memoir Larry McMurtry Reflections on book buying and selling. Some reflections on collection and collectors. Mostly of interest to those in the trade, I think.
23. Stone Cold by Robert Parker. I've pretty much run out of Jesse Stone mysteries, at least those available down the street for $1.50.
27. Bright Futures: A Lew Fonesca Mystery by Kaminsky. It was OK, but I didn't like it well enough to read more Kaminsky.
33. Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam The sad story of intellectuals in politics.
38. The Light of Day by Eric Ambler. Someone recommended Ambler, and I dipped my foot in the water with this one. Not great, a little like Robert Goddard, working with a flawed hero.
39. The Scout by Harry Combs. The follow up to Brules. Good western yarn. Maybe a little too much "reckon" sort of dialect.
40. Monday the Rabbi Took Off by Harry Kemelman More tales from the Boston area, another murder resolves temple questions.
41. The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education Afghan war -- the most recent one. Reflective account.
44. Barry Lynn Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction Alarmist, points out some things, but basically harks back to imagined golden recommendations of New Deal.
45. The Return of the Dancing Master by Mankell. Gloomy Scandivanian secrets, but without series detective Wallander.
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