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Rex Stout – Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin

Posted on February 9, 2007 by

Long ago I discovered this marvelous set of mystery stories written by Rex Stout. My parents had a few paperback copies lieing around and I gobbled them up. “Gobble” being a good word to associate with the heavyweight but non-peripatetic … Continue reading →

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Alberto Manguel – two books you would enjoy

Posted on January 20, 2007 by

Alberto Manguel was born in Buenos Aires in 1948, was educated there, and was a friend of Jorge Luis Borges late in Borges’s life. He was raised in Israel where his father was the Argentine ambassador. In 1984 he became … Continue reading →

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July book bag closing

Posted on July 31, 2006 by

recommended T. Jefferson Parker’s Little Saigon. excellent thriller, I will be hunting for more of his work. reading Big Trouble by J. Anthony Lukas, which is one of those marvelous history books  that pauses along the main route and provides … Continue reading →

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reading: American Scoundrel, by Thomas Keneally

Posted on May 13, 2006 by

The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles. Then Congressman Sickles murdered his wife's lover in sight of the White House but was acquitted; went on to a brave record in the Union Army. At Gettysburg he was … Continue reading →

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