GREENLIGHTS by Matthew McConaughey
Rating: ❤❤❤❤ “Biology and Giddyup.” As I embark on this review, I’m surprised by two things: ...
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THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS (graphic novel) by David F. Walker
Rating: ❤❤❤ "A star of the first magnitude, he rose in the night of American slavery, ...
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INVISIBLE: THE FORGOTTEN STORY OF THE BLACK WOMAN LAWYER WHO TOOK DOWN AMERICA’S MOST POWERFUL MOBSTER by Stephen L. Carter
Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ First this, first that. Sometimes I’m impressed, often I’m not. Too many firsts. Maybe ...
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I WAS THEIR AMERICAN DREAM: A GRAPHIC MEMOIR by Malaka Gharib
Rating: ❤❤❤❤ (Throughout this spiel I use this symbol 💬 to denote quotations taken from word ...
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Brief Thought (not a review): Falling Leaves Perceived by Snoopy and Cyrano de Bergerac
(Images are property of United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Borrowed from Let's Face It, Charlie Brown ...
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WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT NOISE? – AN XTC DISCOVERY BOOK – edited by Mark Fisher
Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Swindon Wasn’t Peyton Place I discovered INXS before discovering XTC. I delighted in the ...
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MARILYN MONROE: THE PRIVATE LIFE OF A PUBLIC ICON by Charles Casillo
Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ There is all a woman in your compass, my poor sister.- Zenobia, The Blithedale ...
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mini-review of ELEVATION by Stephen King
(I hadn't planned on spieling on this book, but I felt compelled to pump out ...
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TITANS OF HISTORY: THE GIANTS WHO MADE OUR WORLD by Simon Sebag Montefiore
with John Bew, Martyn Frampton, Dan Jones and Claudia Renton Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Shakespeare’s Polonius said that ...
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Special interview: Nick Bunker, author of YOUNG BENJAMIN FRANKLIN – THE BIRTH OF INGENUITY
What else can one say about Ben Franklin? Quite a lot, I've found. Nick Bunker’s ...
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ANNE FRANK’S DIARY: THE GRAPHIC ADAPTATION by Ari Folman and David Polonsky
Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ I hid myself within myself…and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows, and contempt ...
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MARVELOCITY: THE MARVEL COMICS ART OF ALEX ROSS by Alex Ross and Chip Kidd
Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ "My dear young friend," said Mustapha Mond, "civilization has absolutely no need of nobility ...
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David Herrle interviews Todd Tarbox, author of ORSON WELLES AND ROGER HILL
David: I can’t tell you how delighted I was to discover Orson Welles and Roger ...
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THE BRINK: PRESIDENT REAGAN AND THE NUCLEAR WAR SCARE OF 1983 by Marc Ambinder
Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Brink, Kubrick, Click Life, thy name is Caprice. If there’s one thing that I ...
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mini-review – UNMASKED: A MEMOIR by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Unmasked: A Memoir is as colorful, vigorous, flamboyant and buoyant as ...
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CREATIVE QUEST by Questlove w/Ben Greenman
Rating: ❤❤❤❤ A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission. – Rush, “Mission” ...
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THE TIMOTHY LEARY PROJECT by Jennifer Ulrich
Rating: ❤❤❤❤ I’m Timothy What’s His Name. - “The Seven Tongues of God” Guinea Pigs in ...
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SURVIVING AGENT ORANGE by Gretchen Bonaduce
Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ I pray you, husband, be not so disquiet… - Katharina to Petrucio, The Taming ...
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RAW: MY JOURNEY INTO THE WU-TANG by Lamont U-God Hawkins
Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Born by Rape, Reborn by Rap I can’t prove it, but I swear that ...
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REDEMPTION: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.’S LAST 31 HOURS by Joseph Rosenbloom
Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ He used to say, over and over, every day he would put on his ...
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THE MISMADE GIRL by Sasha Grey
Rating: ❤❤❤ I stick out like a surreal thumb… - Catherine, The Mismade Girl Foxy Shades ...
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CLOSER THAN YOU KNOW by Brad Parks
Rating: ❤❤❤❤ When I received Brad Parks’ new crime novel, Closer Than You Know, for review, I ...
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Special interview: Patrick Symmes, author of THE DAY FIDEL DIED: CUBA IN THE AGE OF RAÚL, OBAMA, AND THE ROLLING STONES
According to the late dictator Fidel Castro, the Revolución Cubana’s legacy was almost blameless, constructive, ...
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THE SOURCE: HOW RIVERS MADE AMERICA AND HOW AMERICA REMADE ITS RIVERS by Martin Doyle
Rating: ❤❤❤❤ The life in us is like the water in the river. – Walden or, ...
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MASS: THE QUEST TO UNDERSTAND MATTER FROM GREEK ATOMS TO QUANTUM FIELDS by Jim Baggott
Rating: ❤❤❤❤ “It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates ...
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WHAT DOES THIS BUTTON DO? – AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Bruce Dickinson
Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ Back when metal bands such as Iron Maiden ruled the 1980s I was already ...
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THE WOMAN WHO SMASHED CODES by Jason Fagone
Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ Team Friedman Though the genius Alan Turing deserves pity for the ultimately fatal persecution ...
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AN ECHO OF MURDER by Anne Perry
Rating: ❤❤❤ Nowadays it takes almost everything in me to read fiction, and it takes even ...
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MARTIN LUTHER: THE MAN WHO REDISCOVERED GOD AND CHANGED THE WORLD by Eric Metaxas
Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ “One of Those Great Elemental Barbarians” Martin Luther wrote what might be the defining ...
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WHY I AM NOT A FEMINIST: A FEMINIST MANIFESTO by Jessa Crispin
Rating: ❤❤❤❤ I’m a feminist; I’m not a feminist. I’m an equity feminist, not a gender ...
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THE ROAD TO JONESTOWN – JIM JONES AND PEOPLES TEMPLE by Jeff Guinn
In their struggle with "the wicked" the virtuous are often wicked too. - Nikolai Berdyaev, ...
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AMERICAN ZEITGEIST by Charles Rammelkamp
The mention of William Jennings Bryan is more likely to arouse groans than applause these ...
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MAKE TROUBLE by John Waters
Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Quite often, I become a fan of an artist more than her/his main art, ...
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LEAVING LUCY PEAR by Anna Solomon
Lucy Pear. What a name. – Leaving Lucy Pear Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Fruitful Fiction For many years ...
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ARTHUR AND SHERLOCK: CONAN DOYLE AND THE CREATION OF HOLMES by Michael Sims
Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Here’s a clue: My favorite fictional detectives are holding a pipe and a cigar, ...
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LARA: THE UNTOLD LOVE STORY AND THE INSPIRATION FOR DOCTOR ZHIVAGO by Anna Pasternak
Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the ...
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THE BLOOD OF EMMETT TILL by Timothy Tyson
Rating: ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ When I read Devery Anderson’s 2015 Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World ...
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BEING ELVIS: A LONELY LIFE by Ray Connolly
Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ Elvis was the Michael Jackson of his day. Or, rather, Michael Jackson was the ...
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BORN BOTH: AN INTERSEX LIFE by Hida Viloria
Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Nowadays, Lord Alfred Douglas’ “love that dare not speak its name” dares to speak ...
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THE INKBLOTS: HERMANN RORSCHACH, HIS ICONIC TEST, AND THE POWER OF SEEING by Damion Searls
Rating: ❤❤❤❤ For me, the most sympathetic character in Alan Moore’s graphic-novel masterpiece, Watchmen, is Rorschach: ...
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BASED ON A TRUE STORY (A MEMOIR) by Norm Macdonald
Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Norm Macdonald is a treasure. There. I said it. Ever since I saw his ...
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REST: WHY YOU GET MORE WORK DONE WHEN YOU WORK LESS by Alex Pang
Rating: ❤❤❤ If Thoreau perceived that humans led “lives of quiet desperation” way back in his ...
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MY LIFE, MY LOVE, MY LEGACY by Coretta Scott King/Dr. Barbara Reynolds
Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ Spouses of very famous people are usually seen as representatives or extensions – even ...
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WALK THROUGH WALLS by Marina Ambramovic
Rating: ❤❤❤ Though I love all kinds of visual art and consider myself somewhat of an ...
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