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Tag Archives: week in review
This Week at the Library (17/9)
Books this Update: The Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin’, Bill Zehme Banquets of the Black Widowers, Isaac Asimov Sinatra: the Artist and the Man, John Lahr Blood of Flowers, Anita Amirrezvani I … Continue reading
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Tagged biography, Black Widowers, historical fiction, Isaac Asimov, mystery, Persia, Persia-Iran, science fiction, week in review
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This Week at the Library (10/9)
Books this Update: Me of Little Faith, Lewis Black When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris Surviving Auschwitz, Primo Levi Carl Sagan: A Life, Keay Davidson I began this week with Me of Little Faith, which is a book … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged biography, Carl Sagan, David Sedaris, history, Holocaust, humor, memoir, religion, week in review, WW2
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This Week at the Library (3/9)
Books this Update: Jailbird, Kurt Vonnegut The Ascent of Science, Brian Silver Foundation and Empire, Isaac Asimov It’s Been a Good Life, Isaac Asimov For the Love of Life, Erich Fromm I began this week by reading Kurt Vonnegut’s Jailbird, … Continue reading
This Week at the Library (15/8)
Books this Update: Firestarter, Stephen King Hard Call, John McCain Second Foundation, Isaac Asimov Technopoly: the Surrender of Culture to Technology, Neil Postman The Ascent of Science, Brian L. Silver I began this week with Stephen King’s Firestarter, which was … Continue reading
This Week at the Library (7/8)
Books this Update: Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice The Age of Synthesis, Ray Spangenburg and Diane Kit Moser Foundation, Isaac Asimov Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau I, Robot; Isaac Asimov I began this week with Anne Rice’s Interview with … Continue reading
This Week at the Library (31/7)
Books this Update: The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx Nine Tales from Tomorrow, Isaac Asimov Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century, Neil Postman Books that Changed the World, Robert B. Downs The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene I mentioned a few … Continue reading
This Week at the Library (24/7)
Books this Update: Personal Memoirs, US Grant The Universe in a Nutshell, Stephen Hawking Asimov’s Mysteries, Isaac Asimov Primates of the World, Rod and Ken Preston-Mafham The Rise of Reason, Ray Spangenburg and Diane Kit Moser I began this week … Continue reading
This Week at the Library (17/07/08)
Books this Update: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Harry Potter Universe by Tere Stouffer The Undertaker’s Window by Philip Margolin The History of Science from 1945 to the 1990s by Ray Spangenburg and Diane Moser Asimov’s Guide to Shakespeare … Continue reading
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Tagged Harry Potter, history of science, Isaac Asimov, Philip Margolin, Spangenburg and Moser, week in review
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This Week at the Library (17/6)
Books this Update: The History of Science in the 18th Century, Ray Spangenburg & Diane Moser More Tales of the Black Widowers, Isaac Asimov god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Christopher Hitchens The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins This … Continue reading
This Week at the Library (15/5)
Books this Update:– In at the Death, Harry Turtledove– Fatherland, Robert Harris– Garden of Beasts, Jeffery Deaver– Playing for Pizza, John Grisham– The Two Georges, Harry Turtledove and Richard Dreyfuss My first read this week was In at the Death … Continue reading
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Tagged alt-history, Britain, Germany, Harry Turtledove, history, Jeffrey Deaver, John Grisham, military, Nazi, Robert Harris, thriller, week in review, WW2
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