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South, Shackleton’s Midlife Crisis (1919)
We had reached the naked soul of man. South was the most serious book I read. I don’t mean it was the first “big boy” or “historical non-fiction” book I have ever read. Instead, it was the most dire book I had ever read— containing the cleanest account…
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The Sirens of Titan (1959)
by Kurt Vonnegut “I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.” What a wonderful, obscenely funny, and quirky overlooked sci-fi classic this novel was. As slow as I was to get through it, there was hardly a moment I didn’t want to read…
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A Walk in the Neighborhood
It was my day off, November 7th; I was home alone and had nothing going on. I decided to take an impromptu visit to the Curious Book Shop, the same one mentioned in my “book reviews.” I aired up my front tire, the one that is always flat,…