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Book Reviews

bookworm.jpgJanuary books in review

2007 in Books

Punching In by Alex Frankel

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

The Reincarnationist by M. J. Rose

Weird Virginia by Jeff Bahr, Troy Taylor and Loren Coleman

Angelhead by Greg Bottoms

The Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer

Misquoting Jesus by Bart Ehrman

Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen

Recent Reading

Digging to America by Anne Tyler

Seminary Boy by John Cornwell

Shooting the Actor by Simon Callow

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Ride of Our Lives by Mike Leonard

Wish I Could Be There by Allen Shawn

Quick book reviews

The People’s Act of Love by James Meek

A History of the End of the World by Jonathan Kirsch

Christine Falls by Benjamin Black (John Banville)

Stuart: A Life Backwards, by Alexander Masters

40 Days and 40 Nights by Matthew Chapman

Shelley II, by Shelley Winters

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog by Bruce D. Perry

The Master by Colm Toibin

The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

Shelley (also Known as Shirley) by Shelley Winters

Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers

The Echo Maker by Richard Powers

The Keep by Jennifer Egan

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading

Old Filth

The Uses of Enchantment

Within a Budding Grove

Fun Home

The Children of Men

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