Featured Reviews

Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle: 366 Ways He Really Cares (2008) - Matthew Honan  (Grade:A+)

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Public Opinion (1922) - Walter Lippmann  (Grade:D)

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The Consolation of the Shoes (2007) - Manolo the Shoeblogger  (Grade:A)

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First Among Sequels (2007) - Jasper Fforde  (Grade:C)

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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2008) - Rick Perlstein  (Grade:B-)

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Friday's Child (1944) - Georgette Heyer  (Grade:A+)

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The Broken Shore (2005) - Peter Temple  (Grade:A)

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The Roman Predicament: How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire (2006) - Harold James  (Grade:A)

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The Brain that Changes Itself (2007) - Norman Doidge  (Grade:A-)

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Child 44 (2008) - Tom Rob Smith  (Grade:A)

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In the Woods (2007) - Tana French  (Grade:B+)

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Sins of the Assassin (2008) - Robert Ferrigno  (Grade:A)

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Classic Cubs: A Tribute to the Men and Magic of Wrigley Field (2008) - Chris De Luca - John Hanley  (Grade:A+)

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The Truth about Syria (2007) - Barry Rubin  (Grade:A)

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MOVIE REVIEWS:

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Wall-E (2008) - Andrew Stanton  (Grade:A+)

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Life on Mars (2006) - S. J. Clarkson  (Grade:A+)

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Brothers Judd Daily

Brothers Judd QuasiDaily Bookmarks:
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Samuel Butler (1835-1902) was born in Nottinghamshire, ENG on December 4, 1835. Read Orrin's review of The Way of All Flesh (1903)

Rainer Maria Rilke was born in Prague on December 4, 1875. The Brothers Judd recommend Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910) (Rainer Maria Rilke 1875-1926)(translated by Stephen Mitchell)

Joseph (Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) Conrad (1857-1924) was born in Berdichev, Poland (now Ukraine) on December 3, 1857. Read Orrin's reviews of Lord Jim (1900)(Grade: B), Heart of Darkness (1902)(Grade: A), & The Secret Agent (1920)(Grade: B)

Nikos Kazantzakis (1885-1957) was born in Iraklion, Crete on December 2, 1885. Read Orrin's review of The Last Temptation of Christ (1960)(Grade: C+)

Rex Stout (1896-1975) was born in Noblesville, IN on December 1, 1896 Read Orrin's review of Fer-de-Lance: A Nero Wolfe Mystery (1934)(Grade: A)

Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) was born in Florida, MO on November 30, 1835. Read Orrin's review of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) (Grade: A-)

Jacques Barzun (1907-) was born on November 30, 1907. Read Orrin's review of The Culture We Deserve (1989)(Grade : A)

Michael Beschloss (1955-) was born in Chicago, IL on November 30, 1955. Read Orrin's review of Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the U-2 Affair (1986)(Grade: A)

C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) was born in Belfast, Ireland on November 29, 1898. Read Orrin's review of The Screwtape Letters (1943) (Grade: A+)

Madeleine L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time (1962) and Two-Part Invention : The Story of a Marriage (1988), was born November 29, 1918 in New York, N.Y.

William Blake, born in London (1757)

James Agee (1909-55) was born in Knoxville, TN on November 27, 1909. Read Orrin's review of A Death in the Family (1957)(Grade: C)

Bruce Lee (Lee Yuen Kam)(1940-73) was born in San Francisco, CA on November 27, 1940. Brothers Judd recommends the excellent biopic Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)

Gerald Seymour (1941-) was born on November 25, 1941. Read Orrin's review ofArchangel (1982) (Grade: A+)

Harry Stein (1948-) was born in New York, NY on November 25, 1948. Read Orrin's reviews of How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (and Found Inner Peace) (2000)(Grade: A-) and Hoopla (1983)(Grade: B+)

Carlo Collodi (1826-90) was born in Florence, Italy on November 24, 1826. Read Orrin's review of Pinocchio (1940)

William F. Buckley (1925-) was born in New York, NY on November 24, 1925. Read Orrin's review of The Unmaking of a Mayor (1966)(Grade: A+)

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) was born in Manchester, ENG on November 24, 1849. Read Orrin's review of her classic, The Secret Garden (1911)

Franklin Pierce (1804-1869) was born in Hillsborough (now Hillsboro), NH on November 23, 1804. Despite being a favorite son, even Granite Staters acknowledge that he was one of our worst presidents.

George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans](1819-1880) was born in Warwickshire, ENG on November 22, 1819. Read Orrin's review of Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861) (Grade: A)