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My rating: 3 of 5 stars
For the workaday professionals bound in the fishbowl of office life, Joshua Ferris’ freshman novel, Then We Came To The End, will be familiar territory with [...]

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Raj – The racist core of the Tea Party movement is [...]

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He doesn’t tend scabbed knees for free: there is a world beneath his waiting room window that isn’t pretty.
There I see fear flickering [...]

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My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Lemony Snicket should be purchased and perused by audiences of all ages: that is to say, despite the gruesome awful and terrible events befalling the hapless children [...]

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My rating: 3 of 5 stars
When I endeavored to begin a 500 book reading voyage, I asked friends and family for suggestions of “the most life altering books.” There were quite a few responses, [...]

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Dank corners speaking rough smells.
Breath deep, smell despair.

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My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I’m ashamed to say that I’d never taken the time to read the 1987
Pulitzer prize winning play “Fences” by writer August Wilson. I’ve really hurt myself by not
reading it, [...]

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It’s an unfathomable proposition, unfortunately exposing itself in gory detail.  The [...]