Featured Reviews

Ephemera (2009) - Jeffery M. Anderson  (Grade:B+)

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Little bets : how breakthrough ideas emerge from small discoveries (2011) - Peter Sims  (Grade:A)

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Modern and American Dignity : Who We Are as Persons, and What That Means for Our Future (2010) - Peter Augustine Lawler  (Grade:A+)

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Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America (2011) - Daniel J. Flynn  (Grade:B)

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Seeking Whom He May Devour (1999) - Fred Vargas  (Grade:A)

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The Great Fat Fraud: Why the "Obesity Epidemic" Isn't, How to Be Totally Healthy without Losing Weight and If You Should Lose Some Pounds, How to Keep Them from Finding You Again (2011) - Mike Schatzki  (Grade:B+)

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Ashes of the Earth: A Mystery of Post-Apocalyptic America (2011) - Elliot Pattison  (Grade:C)

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Groundhog Day (1993) - Harold Ramis  (Grade:A)

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02/06/12:

Tom Brokaw (1940-) was born in Yankton, SD on February 6, 1940. Read Orrin's review of The Greatest Generation (1999)(Grade: D+)

Ronald Reagan (1911-) was born in Tampico, IL on February 6, 1911. Read Orrin's reviews of: Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan (1999)(Edmund Morris)(Grade: A/F),What I Saw At the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era (1990)(Peggy Noonan 1950-) (Grade: A-)and On the Brink; The Dramatic Saga of How the Reagan Administration Changed the Course of History and Won the Cold War (1996)(Jay Winik) (Grade: A+)

George Herman "Babe" Ruth (1895-) was born in Baltimore, MD on February 6, 1895. Brothers Judd recommends Robert Creamer's great biography: Babe: The Legend Comes to Life

John Guare (1938-) was born in New York, NY on February 5, 1938. Read our review of Six Degrees of Separation (1990).

Bob Marley (1945-81) was born in Rhoden Hall, Jamaica on February 5, 1945. Brothers Judd recommends Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley (Timothy White)

Hank Aaron (1934-) was born in Mobile, AL on February 5, 1934. Read Orrin's review of I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story (1991)(Henry Aaron (1935-) with Lonnie Wheeler)(Grade: A)

Robert Coover (1932-) was born in Charles City, IA on February 4, 1932. Read Orrin's review of The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. : J. Henry Waugh, Prop. (Grade: A-)

Russell Hoban was born in Lansdale, PA on February 4, 1925

Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-74) was born in Detroit, MI on February 4, 1902. Read Orrin's reviews ofThe Spirit of St. Louis (1953) (Grade: A+) andLindbergh (1998)(A. Scott Berg) (Grade: A+)

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) was born in New York, NY on February 3, 1894.

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was born in Allegheny, PA on February 3, 1874.

Felix Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg, GER on February 3, 1809.

James A. Michener was born on February 3, 1907.

Paul Auster (1947-) was born in Newark, NJ on February 3, 1947. Read Orrin's reviews of The Music of Chance (1990) (Grade: A-) and Paul Auster's City of Glass: A Graphic Mystery (1994) (adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli) (Grade: A)

Thomas M. Disch (1940-) was born in Des Moines, IA on February 2, 1940. Read Orrin's review of The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World (1998)

James Joyce (1882-1941) was born in Dublin, IRE on February 2, 1882. Read Orrin's reviews of:A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)(Grade: F), Ulysses (1918)(F x Googleplex), Finnegan's Wake (1939)(Grade: G) and The Death of a Joyce Scholar: A Peter McGarr Mystery (1989)(Bartholomew Gill 1943-)

James Dickey (1925-97) was born on February 2, 1925. Read Orrin's review of Deliverance (1970) (Grade: A+)

Ayn Rand (1905-82) was born on February 2, 1905. Read Orrin's review of Anthem (1946)(Grade: A)

Reynolds Price (1933-) was born in Macon, NC on February 1, 1933

John Ford (1895-) was born in Cape Elizabeth, ME on February 1, 1895. He was recently named one of Brothers Judd Ten Greatest Cultural Figures of the 20th Century.