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Book Monkeys: 10 worst book covers in the history of literature?
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A wide-ranging and not-too-serious discussion about books and reading for book nerds of all ages. Friday, June 15, 2012. 10 worst book covers in the history of literature? You be the judge. Here's the link from the website So Bad So Good. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Born to Run - A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (McDougall). I am A Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President (Lieb). Too Big to Fail (Sorkin).
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Book Monkeys: October 2012
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A wide-ranging and not-too-serious discussion about books and reading for book nerds of all ages. Monday, October 22, 2012. Review: Memory Wall (Doerr). As a Boise resident, I’ve made it a point to read books by Boise-based writers. I have previously reviewed books by Mitch Wieland ( God’sDogs. And Brady Udall ( The Lonely Polygamist. What I was discovered was another talented storyteller and skilled writer. Doerr’s Memory Wall. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Views to My Page.
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Book Monkeys: Book Review: The Art of Fielding (Chad Harbach)
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A wide-ranging and not-too-serious discussion about books and reading for book nerds of all ages. Wednesday, May 2, 2012. Book Review: The Art of Fielding (Chad Harbach). Debut novel, The Art of Fielding. Is story of friendship, self-discovery, relationships, mental illness, and the promises and pitfalls of potential. The plot is solid but the well-developed, complex characters are what kept me up late turning pages. The Art of Fielding. Is also about baseball, but in the same way Moby Dick. How Harbach ...
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Book Monkeys: May 2012
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A wide-ranging and not-too-serious discussion about books and reading for book nerds of all ages. Friday, May 25, 2012. Kiddie Lit Review Reveals Ugly Truth: Adults are Expendable (and/or Evil). Have you noticed the books young readers enjoy most tend to place adults into three categories? We olds are fools, fiends, or dead. Huck Finn’s mother was dead and his dad was a bigoted drunk (Tom Sawyer was an orphan who routinely outwitted elderly Aunt Polly, his guardian). Motherless, as was Nancy Drew. And th...
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Book Monkeys: Review: Memory Wall (Doerr)
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A wide-ranging and not-too-serious discussion about books and reading for book nerds of all ages. Monday, October 22, 2012. Review: Memory Wall (Doerr). As a Boise resident, I’ve made it a point to read books by Boise-based writers. I have previously reviewed books by Mitch Wieland ( God’sDogs. And Brady Udall ( The Lonely Polygamist. What I was discovered was another talented storyteller and skilled writer. Doerr’s Memory Wall. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Probably the L...
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Book Monkeys: Review: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part -Time Indian. By Sherman Alexie
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A wide-ranging and not-too-serious discussion about books and reading for book nerds of all ages. Tuesday, February 1, 2011. Review: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part -Time Indian. By Sherman Alexie. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Born to Run - A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (McDougall). I am A Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President (Lieb). The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Alexie).
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Book Monkeys: Review: God's Dogs (Wieland)
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A wide-ranging and not-too-serious discussion about books and reading for book nerds of all ages. Sunday, July 24, 2011. Review: God's Dogs (Wieland). In God’s Dogs. SMU Press 2009), author Mitch Wieland’s protagonist, Ferrell Swan, examines his complicated relationship with himself, the ghost of his father, his ex-wife, and his adult stepson from the vantage of his self-imposed exile in a desolate, rugged corner of Idaho. Swan is a sixty-something from Ohio. Periods of self-reflective solitude are disru...
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Book Monkeys: Danica McKellar: More Than A Pretty Face
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A wide-ranging and not-too-serious discussion about books and reading for book nerds of all ages. Saturday, June 2, 2012. Danica McKellar: More Than A Pretty Face. You all know her from The Wonder Years. And The West Wing. Know her from her kick-butt math books that helped me amaze my classmates with the power of LCM (Least or Lowest Common Multiple.) She also graduated from UCLA with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics. Kiss My Math: Showing Pre-Algebra Who’s Boss. And Hot X: Algebra Exposed. She also ...
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Book Monkeys: Review: The Hunger Games (Collins)
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A wide-ranging and not-too-serious discussion about books and reading for book nerds of all ages. Monday, December 5, 2011. Review: The Hunger Games (Collins). 8220;Whatever the truth is, I don’t see how it’ll help me get food on the table.” This was the line that hooked me into The Hunger Games. A novel by Suzanne Collins. It hooked me because it shows Katniss’s spirit in helping her family. The Hunger Games. Is the first book in a trilogy, the other two books being Catching Fire. The following day, the...
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Book Monkeys: Put Me In Coach: 40th Anniversary of Title IX
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A wide-ranging and not-too-serious discussion about books and reading for book nerds of all ages. Monday, June 25, 2012. Put Me In Coach: 40th Anniversary of Title IX. Book Monkey Syd posted this a year ago, adapted from an end-of-year school project. We are re-posting to recognize the 40th anniversary of the passage of Title IV which happened on June 24, 2012. The Book Monkeys will discuss the topic tomorrow night on the drive to Book Monkey Syd's summer AAU basketball game. They read non-fiction too!
