Short Book Reviews
Fiction
Bradley, Alan - "A Herring Without Mustard"
Collins, Suzanne - "The Hunger Games"
Connelly, Michael - "The Black Box"
Cronin, Justin - "The Passage"
Cronin, Justin - "The Twelve"
Dewberry, Elizabeth - "Many Things Have Happened Since He Died"
Dickens, Charles - "Great Expectations"
Dunning, John - "The Bookman's Wake"
Dunning, John - "Booked to Die"
Green, John - "Looking for Alaska"
Gruley, Bryan - "The Hanging Tree"
Hjortsberg, William - "Falling Angel"
Kontz, Dean - "Odd Thomas"
Mayor, Archer - "Open Season"
Thomson, Keith - "Once a Spy"
Non-Fiction
Bianco, Antony - "The Big Lie"
Bowden, Mark - "Worm"
Boyd, Roddy - "Fatal Risk"
Cahallan, Susannah - "Brain on Fire"
Doyle, William - "The French Revolution"
Fine, Cordilia - "The Britannica Guide to the Brain"
Lederman, Leon M. - "Quantum Physics for Poets"
Lewis, Michael - "The Big Short"
Lewis, Michael - "Boomerang"
Levy, Steven - "In the Plex"
McCloud, Scott - "Understanding Comics"
Mitnick, Kevin D. - "Ghost in the Wires"
Muolo, Paul - "Chain of Blame"
Pease, Allan - "The Definative Book of Body Language"
Revoise, Patrick - "Neuromarketing"
Safko, Lon - "The Social Media Bible"
Taylor, Jill Bolte - "My Stroke of Insight"
Wilson, Edward O. - "Consilience"
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An very engaging Mystery/Thriller with a unique pare of characters. Quite fun. (I am just so curious if those tunnels under Columbia really exist.)
I come to the acclaimed book from a different perspective than most of the reviewers. First, I am an adult and, second, I attended the school it was based on. Being an alumni of Indian Springs School (where John Green also attended many ...
I read this because it was free on iTunes. Frankly, I thought is was just some self-published mystery that I would quit after a chapter. But I realized after a page this guy could write and after a chapter he could plot. I was hooked. Of...
Same old Bosch and that's a good thing. Probably the best of his recent outings but still lacks some of the charm of the early books in the series.
This is one of those books that you long for the half star because I would have given it 3 and a half. At it's core is an interesting store of a woman having an unexplained mental collapse. The story of the month of her crisis is fascina...
