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I just finished another life-nonchanging book, “There Goes the Neighborhood” by William Julius Wilson and Richard P. Taub (2006). At but 189 pages, it is both a quick and easy read. The book characterizes four Chicago neighborhoods and the social impact of changing racial compositions of urban neighborhoods. I found it frustrating […]

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I struggled last night to finish “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy, a book that’s been so buried in praise that I practically had to dust the fairy-dust ash off in order to read it. It was boring, dull, slow moving, simple, repetitive, and wrought with confusing dialogue and malformed chronology. I felt duped. […]

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I just finished a great book. If you’re into baseball, statistics, and the incompleteness of typical baseball statistics, then “Moneyball” by Michael Lewis (2003) is for you. I also came to learn of a fairly large contingent of sabermetricians, who pretty much treat a gentleman named Bill James as both founder and their god.
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I haven’t been writing…but instead reading, catching up on my stack of periodicals, magazines, and books due back at the library after the maximum of two renewals.
Yesterday I finished “The Professor and the Madman,” a true tale written by Simon Winchester about the two key figures in creating the Oxford English Dictionary, originally published in […]

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I recently picked up “Scam - How the Black Leadership Exploits America” from my local Atlanta library branch, only because I was curious. Curious why all of the anti-conservative books seem to have prominent placement in the typical urban library branch (”Grand Illusion - The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11″ was on […]

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Somehow the high-minded nature of this Time magazine/LA Times “Critic” could not escape me. Under his theory, no book can be judged by itself, but instead must somehow have relativity to the rest of the author’s body of work. Rubbish. When I say Andruw Jones didn’t play well yesterday because he struck […]

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I finished Barack Obama’s “Audacity of Hope” the other night, and felt like I ought to write down my thoughts on it, particularly so that I can refer back to this entry come election time. I was on the waiting list at three local libraries for both the print and audio versions of the […]

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