A few months ago, I signed up for Powell Books Review-A-Day. I suppose their purpose is to get you to buy more books and, in that, it succeeds. Many of the books have seemed pretty blah, but some reviews have really piqued my interest. Here are the ones I’m interested in so far:
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Holes by Louis Sachar
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The Work of Wolves by Kent Meyers
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Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind by David Quammen
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To Err Is Divine by Agota Bozai
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Spice: The History of a Temptation by Jack Turner
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Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How Americans Lived During the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression by David E Kyvig
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The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
The two books I’ve already purchased (I’m reading Inside the Victorian Home now) are pretty good, so I feel comfortable trusting the reviews.
Of course, for anything books not recently published, I have to rely on a friend from New Orleans for recommendations. He’s been spot-on in the past. (As an example, he pointed me to Nikolai Berdyaev.)