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Portlandia: A Guide for Visitors

November 12, 2012

In 2011 the realm of sketch comedy was turned on its ear through the wacky genius of Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen. In a small Pacific Northwest town called Portlandia they birthed a roster of characters that were found to be unanimously funny by millions in America and funny in that too-close-to-home way for those of us who live in that real world city, Portland. In an ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Grand Central Publishing, humor, Pacific Northwest

Back to Blood

October 26, 2012

Back to Blood

Religion is dying…but everybody still has to believe in something. It would be intolerable—you couldn’t stand it—to finally have to say to yourself, “Why keep pretending? I’m nothing but a random atom…” So, my people, that leaves only our blood, the bloodlines that course through our very bodies to unite us. All people everywhere, you have no choice but—Back to blood!   In ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, Little Brown and Company, satire, social issues

The Panther

October 19, 2012

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Just when you thought it might not happen, John Corey, in all his irascible, ornery, and often spot-on political incorrectness, returns. And this time he’s the hunter…or is he? After an absence of two years Nelson DeMille brings Corey back to wrap-up the story that began in The Lion's Game and continued in The Lion.There, Corey kills a Middle Eastern terrorist, who, though not ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Grand Central Publishing, Middle East, political intrigue, Yemen

Does This Church Make Me Look Fat?

October 10, 2012

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I missed Rhoda Janzen’s first book, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home so jumping into her newest book, Does This Church Make Look Fat?, was a bit like going to a new high school your sophomore year. Yes, they speak the language but you don’t know any of the backstory or the cliques. Also, I’ll admit it. I wanted to read the book because the title made me ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: book clubs, Grand Central Publishing, medical, memoir, religion

Tigers in Red Weather

July 17, 2012

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In Tigers in Red Weather It’s 1945 and in a small apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts cousins Nick and Helena prepare to celebrate the end of the war and the beginning of their lives. Helena is leaving to be with her new husband, Avery, an insurance salesman in Hollywood and Nick is heading to Florida to rejoin her husband, returning naval officer, Hughes. As the years pass ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 1950s, debut, family saga, historical fiction, Little Brown and Company

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