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This book meanders its way through Cleveland’s history and episodes from Pekar’s life with the rambling cadence of a stroll through an old neighborhood. Even with so much of the focus on historical facts, Pekar finds plenty of moments to delight in the splendor of being alive. He was a…
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This book plays out like an exciting transitional episode of a serialized TV show, and I mean that as a compliment. Murderbot finally catches back up with its primary crew of humans, and Wells does a fantastic job revealing important elements of Murderbot and Dr. Mensah’s personalities through moments of…
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I read this book to take a break at the mid-point of Book of the New Sun with something that’s written in a more straightforward manner. It’s a nice companion piece, thematically. Of late I’ve found that what you might call “social history” – explorations of what daily life was like for…
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Among favorite kinds of books to look for at thrift shops and flea markets are collected editions of newspaper comics. These one-time mainstays on the shelves of Barnes & Noble and Borders (RIP) have almost disappeared, and thanks to the waning polularity of the medium they are probably not widely…
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Moment to moment, this is one of the most entertaining series I have ever read. Murderbot would enjoy consuming it if it showed up among its media files.
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