Reviews
Book Reviews:
2009
The Island of Lost Maps by Miles Harvey (6/26/09)
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan (6/29/09)
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb (7/2/09)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (7/6/09)
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by Gary Kinder (7/10/09)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (7/14/09)
Mu(T)an(T)s by Armand Leroi (7/20/09)
Me Talk Pretty One Dayby David Sedaris (7/23/09)
Opening Skinner’s Box by Lauren Slater (7/27/09)
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (7/30/09)
King of Screwups by K.L. Going (8/3/09)
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (8/6/09)
Lamb by Christopher Moore (8/11/09)*
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (8/13/09)
Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace (8/18/09)
The Blind Side by Michael Lewis (8/20/09)
Waiting by Ha Jin (8/25/09)
The Wild Trees by Richard Preston (8/27/09)
Pygmyby Chuck Palahniuk (9/1/09)
We Were Soldiers Once and Young by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway (9/3/09)
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles by Jennifer Lee (9/8/09)
Common Wealth, Economics for a Crowded Planet by Jeffrey Sachs (9/9/09)
Andromeda Klein by Frank Portman (9/10/09)
China Underground by Zachary Mexico (9/15/09)
The Sparrow by Maria Doria Russell (9/17/09)**
At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig by John Gimlette (9/18/09)
Spooner by Pete Dexter (9/22/09)
Forever War by Dexter Filkins (9/24/09)**
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro (9/29/09)*
Little Bee by Chris Cleeve (10/1/09)
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (10/6/09)
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much… by Allison Bartlett (10/7/09)*
Moneyball by Michael Lewis (10/8/09)
Replay by Ken Grimwood (10/9/09)**
Raid on the Sun by Rodger Claire (10/13/09)
Affliction by Russell Banks (10/15/09)
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby (10/20/09)
Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson (10/22/09)
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (10/27/09)**
King Dork by Frank Portman (10/29/09)
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (11/3/09)*
Forever by Pete Hamill (11/5/09)*
Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann (11/10/09)
A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn (11/12/09)
The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova (11/17/09)
A Thread of Grace by Maria Doria Russell (11/19/09)
Tattoo Machine by Jeff Johnson (11/24/09)
World War Z by Max Brooks (11/25/09)
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott (12/1/09)
A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome by Alberto Angela (12/3/09)
Gone by Michael Grant (12/8/09)
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (12/10/09)
A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz (12/15/09)
The Anatomist by Bill Hayes (12/17/09)
Destroy All Cars by Blake Nelson (12/21/09)
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean by Edward Kritzler (12/22/09)
The Wild Things by Dave Eggers (12/24/09)
Six Suspects by Vikas Swarup (12/29/09)
Pretties by Scott Westerfeld (12/31/09)
2010
One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus (1/5/10)
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America by Robert Charles Wilson (1/7/10)
The Magicians by Lev Grossman (1/12/10)
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (1/14/10)
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld (1/19/10)
Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides (1/21/10)
The Eleventh Man by Ivan Doig (1/26/10)
The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs by Irvine Welsh (1/28/10)
The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove (2/2/10)
Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore (2/4/10)
Run by Ann Patchett (2/9/10)
Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson (2/11/10)
El Monstruo by John Ross (2/16/10)
Fugitives and Refugees by Chuck Palahniuk (2/18/10)
You Can’t Win by Jack Black (2/23/10)
Naked Airport by Alastair Gordon (2/25/10)
Book Store Reviews:
Skylight Books (Los Angeles, CA)
Books & Bookshelves (San Francisco, CA)
The Bookshop(Penticton, BC)
William Stout Architectural Books (San Francisco, CA)
Chronicle Books (San Francisco, CA)
Yellow Book Road (post mortem, San Diego, CA.)
