Book Reviews And Comments By Rick O

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

THE SUN ALSO RISES

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  Do you remember the line in Don McLean’s 1971 song American Pie ...the day the music died? Well, when Ernest Hemingway published his first...
Sunday, November 21, 2021

ADDRESS UNKNOWN

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  In 1938 Kathrine Kressmann Taylor wrote a classic novel (really a 79-page short story), Address Unknown , that unfortunately still resona...
Monday, November 15, 2021

the LINCOLN HIGHWAY

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  There are storytellers and tale-tellers and then there is Amor Towles, a Cormac McCarthy disciple if ever I saw one. Having read his A Ge...
Sunday, November 7, 2021

Rambling Comments #7: Hoopla And Libby, Your Public Library Online

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This is a guest post by Deron O: Imagine looking at your bookshelves and suddenly seeing them burst through the walls and stretch off into i...
Monday, October 25, 2021

HOUR of the WITCH

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What does it take to be a witch? Very little. If a neighbor or an indentured servant doesn’t like you, he/she can plant some symbol of the d...
Thursday, October 21, 2021

The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

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The following review is another guest review from Ed O'Hare, an up & coming acclaimed reviewer: Dave Grohl has for years served as r...
Wednesday, September 1, 2021

The Guide

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The following is a guest review from my friend, Ed O'Hare, a voracious reader in his own right, and an accomplished arbiter and commenta...
Sunday, August 8, 2021

DAY ZERO

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The story of Pounce, the nanny bot, and his charge, eight-year-old Ezra is endearing as well as violent. C. Robert Cargill writes an apocaly...
Thursday, July 15, 2021

Ethel Rosenberg

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Anne Sebba gives the reader a chilling look at the death of Ethel Rosenberg, who along with her husband, Julius, were convicted of giving At...
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rick o.
I started reading in earnest during high school, because of a wonderful English teacher. I basically read the classics. I would buy one Signet Classic after another. My favorite being David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. I stopped serious reading while serving four years in the U.S.Marine Corps. When I got out, I started reading every genre possible. I still like reading all types of novels including sci-fi, historical fiction, non-fiction and lately I like non-fiction that reads like fiction. A example would be 'Destiny of the Republic' by Candice Millard, or 'The Devil in the White City' by Erik Larson. But knowing me, a new genre of writing could get my interest and I'll start reading that. I still read sci-fi, even if I'm hot on a new genre. So my thanks goes out to my teacher for opening my eyes to the likes of Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fenimore Cooper, Daniel Defoe, and my favorite name, William Makepeace Thackeray.
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