Sunday, January 27th, 2008
It's taken me years to get around to finally reading Susan Orlean's entertaining book, The Orchid Thief.
Just reading the book, with it's fascinating cast of characters, made me paranoid about developing some sort of orchid obsession, and I really have no interest in them to start with. I ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin’s monumental biography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer was published in 2005 and won the National Book Critic's Award for Biography, as well as sweeping accolades from historians. It took me two years to get around to reading it, but I ...
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