Category Archives: Our Best
The Seer’s Explanation – Larry Gottlieb
(Reviewed by Pat Luboff) Dante’s Hell had a sign over the gate: “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” Larry Gottlieb’s book could have a similar sign: “Abandon all ideas of who you are and what the world is, ye … Continue reading
Posted in Non-fiction, Our Best, Philosophical reads
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The Calorie Myth: How to Eat More, Exercise Less, Lose Weight, and Live Better – Jonathan Bailor
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Forget calories. Focus on hormones. Lower your set-point. Burn body fat forever.” Jonathan Bailor makes it sound easy. However, I know it is easier to make clean eating a lifestyle rather than struggling with constant dieting … Continue reading
Posted in Health and Fitness, How do I do that?, Our Best
Tagged Diet, excercise, fitness, weight loss
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The Fall of a Sparrow – Robert Hellenga
(Reviewed by J.D. Jung) After reading one of my favorite books, The Italian Lover, I just wanted to grab anything related to it and its characters. Author Robert Hellenga wrote a book about the protagonist’s lover, classics professor Alan “Woody” … Continue reading
Posted in Modern Literary Fiction, Our Best
Tagged Italy
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16 Seasons in Hell: The Definitive Western Account of The WWII Campaign on The Eastern Front – Daniel Bennett
Reviewed by Glenda Anderson Daniel Bennett’s book is monumental, written with a keen understanding and insight. It encompasses a detailed research and piecing together of thousands of minutiae gleaned from histories, military documents and memoirs, affording an exceptional eagle’s eye … Continue reading
Posted in History, Our Best, WWII
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The Clock – Kenneth Fearing (Introduction by Nicholas Christopher)
(Reviewed by J.D. Jung) Everyone adjusts their life to the big clock; sometimes it races forward, sometimes it moves backward. It impersonally reaches for some, and forgets others. George Stroud is one who it reaches for, but fortunately misses. Stroud, a married … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Mystery and Thrillers, Lost and almost forgotten, Noir-esque fiction, Our Best
Tagged 1940, book reviews, mystery
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Berlin Noir: March Violets; The Pale Criminal; A German Requiem – Philip Kerr
reviewed by Lillian Thurston Buy It! Did you ever wonder what it was like to live in Berlin during the reign of the Nazis? If you weren’t a Nazi, how did you survive? Berlin Noir, a trilogy by British author … Continue reading
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Mygale – Thierry Jonquet (Translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith)
Ah, revenge can be so sweet. Now mix it with obsession and a touch of madness, and it turns utterly twisted and bizarre. Such is the case with the intense and fascinating novel, Mygale, written by the late French crime … Continue reading
The Italian Lover – Robert Hellenga
Discover this! Margo Harrington, an American expatriate living in Italy, is excited to hear that her memoir, The Sixteen Pleasures, will be made into a feature film. The book details her experiences when she first came to Florence. While … Continue reading
