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)
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl (3/2/10)
The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris (3/4/10)
Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk by Tony DuShane (3/9/10)
I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett (3/11/10)
You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers (3/16/10)
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (3/18/10)
Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead as told to Jody M. Roy (3/23/10)
Marching Powder by Rusty Young and Thomas McFadden (3/25/10)
The Glister by John Burnside (3/30/10)
Stitches by David Small (4/1/10)
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower (4/6/10)
Nobody Move by Denis Johnson (4/8/10)
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon (4/13/10)
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith (4/15/10)
Beat The Reaper by Josh Bazell (4/20/10)
Stiff by Mary Roach (4/22/10)
The Walk by Richard Paul Evans (5/25/10)
Little Green by Loretta Stinson
(5/27/10)
Bite Me by Christopher Moore (6/1/10)
The Lost City of Z by David Grann (6/2/10)
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.)
Bay Area Free Book Exchange (El Cerrito)
Kinokuniya Bookstore
