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No Market on TwitterBook Sandwich: Intensity by Dean Koontz
I have to admit, I very nearly decided to stop reading this book. Or, to be more accurate, I nearly stopped reading it on my second try. This book is in my pile of “books I bought and have not read yet” that I am working through. When I picked up Intensity recently, the beginning [...]
Book Sandwich: Life Itself by Roger Ebert
A few months ago we lost Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun Times, to cancer. Back in 2011 when his face was transformed due to salivary cancer and he couldn’t talk or eat or drink anymore, he wrote his autobiography. He says in the book that things just seemed to happen to him [...]
Book Sandwich: Drama by Raina Telgemeier
I don’t read a lot of graphic novels or comic books, but lately I have been dipping my toe in more and more. For example, I have read 12 issues of The Walking Dead and there is a lot to catch up on there with #109 being the latest at the time of this writing. [...]
Book Sandwich: The Hours by Michael Cunningham
In general, I make an effort to read a book before I watch the movie that is based upon it. Often, this makes the movie more interesting, as I already have become familiar with who the main characters are and how they are connected to each other. Sometimes, this backfires, and I end up sadly [...]
Book Sandwich: The Cove by Ron Rash
There was a time when I belonged to a book club. It wasn’t a typical one, where meetings are held in someone’s living room, and everyone takes turns selecting a book. It was more of a virtual one where books (selected by someone who was coordinating the book club) were sent to me every month [...]
Book Sandwich – Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and his Slaves by Henry Wiencek
Last October, I went to Austin for the Texas Book Festival, a gathering of authors and booksellers on the state capitol grounds. One of the authors that I heard speak was Henry Wiencek, the author of this book. He has been criticized by Jeffersonian scholars for looking at the slavery issue from a modern perspective [...]
Book Sandwich: Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow is a regular blogger on Boing Boing as an advocate for issues dealing with copyright among many other interests of his. He is also an independent novelist having written both for young adults and adults. This was the first book I’ve ever read of Cory Doctorow’s and I thought it was pretty good [...]
Book Sandwich: Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Freakonomics is a book that I’ve been curious about for quite a while, but it was only recently that I finally found the time to read it. All I knew when I picked it up was that it was once a best seller, and that it was the type of book that would change the [...]
