Stories By Elinor Teele
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
June 5, 2020The concept of Pleasures and Sorrows is a good one. De Botton sets out on a...
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Fiction Reviews
Sunnyside by Glen David Gold
June 3, 2020For Gold, like Koontz and Høeg, has a way of combining farce and futility that says...
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Biography
Marlee Matlin: Bold Moves and Few Regrets
June 1, 2020"I worry about nothing except doing work that I like and that I look at as...
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Agriculture
The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
June 1, 2020Deceptively plain in its phrasing, almost lethargic in its pace, The Twin is about as flat...
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Biography
Chasing Moonlight: The True Story of Field of Dreams’ Doc Graham by Brett Friedlander and Robert Reising
May 30, 2020There's a scene in Field of Dreams where the camera lingers on a baby-faced baseball player...
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Agriculture
All the Living by C.E. Morgan
May 29, 2020For All the Living is an excellent debut for Morgan, a bold book of small incidents...
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African American
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
May 27, 2020Yet when an author treads into specific territories, the ground becomes awfully muddy. We’re happy to...
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History
The Irish Americans: A History by Jay P. Dolan
May 26, 2020America’s love affair with all things Irish – with J.F.K. and seedy bars in “The Departed,”...
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Humor
Frederick Burr Opper’s Happy Hooligan
May 26, 2020Viewed in retrospect, post-Depression, however, he acquires a special poignancy. Here was a man who was...
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African American
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
May 23, 2020That’s it. Truly. That’s the plot. But to say that is all there is to it...
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