Drood

For anyone with an appreciation of Charles Dickens and his numerous forays into the depths of the political and social life of late Victorian times, Drood will provide a delicious and fascinating look into Dickens’ life as seen by his friend and confidant Wilkie Collins, himself a noted writer of the times. Be prepared, however, for two possible courses of action: For anyone seeking a book of character development this will fit the bill, for anyone seeking plot development this book will necessitate either enduring those endless passages of character description and development or a rapid skimming to arrive at the next plot point.

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The Brain that heals itself

Dr. Doidge shows in this book how the brain can rewire itself in very dramatic ways.

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Adam Bede

George Elliott, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans Cross, starts the novel in a very 19th century manner with the author using her voice to set the scene. Once the initial author intrusive paragraph is read through, the workshop in which Adam is a carpenter is brought to life using both description and dialect. One of the best ways to interpret the dialect is to use the voice of Lionel’s father’s gardener from the TV series “As Time Goes By.”

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Two Years Before the Mast

That which was can never be again. After twenty-four years Richard Henry Dana, Jr. returned to the west coast of America to retrace some of the arduous steps he’d made as an ordinary sailor aboard the ship Pilgrim. He found that so much had changed that he could barely recognize some of the places he’d been as a hide collector.

Dana’s original journey started because of difficulties with his eyes as an academic student at Harvard. Like many of his contemporaries, the sea held the possibility of both a cure and high romance.

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Freakonomics

How much time would you spend to find out that most of the ideas you have, “conventional wisdom” is another way of putting it, were wrong?

Leavitt and Dubner put this book together because the former is a peculiar sort of economist and the latter is a fair-to-middling journalist, and they didn’t want to tempt fate by refusing to work together. Their publisher thought the book should be classified as a “business” book, but it is anything but that.

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Intellectual Morons: How Ideology makes smart people fall for stupid ideas

Daniel Flynn could have easily titled this book The Iconoclast’s Bible. In his discussion of each of the “icons” that he “clasts” he meticulously examines what they have said and compares it to what they have done. None of the various people and their ideas can escape the rigorous peeling back of the onionskin that has been carefully laid over their sayings and doings.

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Firewall

Henning Mankell delves deeper into detective Kurt Wallender’s psyche in this extremely complicated novel of modern vulnerability, both of the world and of Wallender himself.

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