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  • Eating Animals
    Eating Animals
    by Jonathan Safran Foer
  • City of Thieves: A Novel
    City of Thieves: A Novel
    by David Benioff
  • Paris Trout (Contemporary American Fiction)
    Paris Trout (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by Pete Dexter
  • Shards of Summer
    Shards of Summer
    by Kelly Jameson
  • Downtown Owl: A Novel
    Downtown Owl: A Novel
    by Chuck Klosterman
  • Olive Kitteridge: Fiction
    Olive Kitteridge: Fiction
    by Elizabeth Strout
  • Out Stealing Horses: A Novel
    Out Stealing Horses: A Novel
    by Per Petterson
  • The Catcher in the Rye
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger
  • The World Without Us
    The World Without Us
    by Alan Weisman
  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
    The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
    by Junot Díaz
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage)
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage)
    by Stieg Larsson
  • Worth The Wait: Tales of the 2008 Phillies
    Worth The Wait: Tales of the 2008 Phillies
    by Jayson Stark
  • Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book)
    Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book)
    by Neal Stephenson
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    Thursday
    11Feb2010

    City of Thieves and Paris Trout: Two Masculine Books of Tragedy 

    Paris Trout and City of Thieves offer us a literary approach that will make you question your actions as well as our collective history. They will put you face to face with tragedy as well as the greater trait of humanity, its ability to survive. They are powerful masculine books that will leave you shaking with emotion, but a better human for the experience.

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    Thursday
    11Feb2010

    We are Eating Animals

    All of these contemplations, and far more, are what makes up Johnathan Safran Foer’s most recent literary effort, and first nonfiction piece, in Eating Animals. The book is a meaningful, considerate look at the thriving industry of factory farming, and all its detrimental effects, the slow revitalization of traditional farming, and the still polarizing options of vegetarianism and veganism.

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    Wednesday
    20Jan2010

    A Book Club Dropout’s Review: Chuck Klosterman’s Downtown Owl

    Reading Downtown Owl is like getting into a car with a bunch of teenagers and remembering how good it feels to drive fast getting nowhere and not caring because everything you want as a reader is right in that car.

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    Sunday
    27Dec2009

    A Book Club Dropout’s Review: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

    Olive Kitteridge is a character you will not forget. She is worth the time you spend in Crosby, Maine while reading the connected short stories by Elizabeth Strout. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the book celebrates an elegant style of descriptive prose that makes it an enjoyable and fast experience. The strength and weakness of the book is the portrayal of the diverse characters and ages that are painted across the novel’s landscape. There is someone here you will connect with and that is a worthy accomplishment with the book being just over 250 pages. And yet somehow while reading, I felt that Olive could not make it an enjoyable experience because a gray day loomed over its pages as the author refused anyone to be happy. And perhaps, no doubt, that was the point.

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    Wednesday
    16Dec2009

    A Book Club Dropout's Review: Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson

    The Road is expected to be a big hit at the movie theaters this holiday season; a story that is about a father and son relationship. There are many writers that explore this family dynamic but few have done it well like Potok’s The Chosen or Hemingway’s “Up in Michigan”. Per Petterson’s Out Stealing Horses (2003) examines this father and son relationship during and after WWII years in Finland and the woods that border Sweden. A book rich in natural description and stoic language, it overcomes its weaknesses of plot structure and characterization to reveal an important literary and metaphorical look at our haunting pasts and the relationships we regain in reconnecting with them.

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