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Nonfiction chat
with
Tina
APRIL 2022
Next meeting is MAY 25 at 3 pm
“THE PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY:
THEY DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY
THERE”
The Go-Between, L. P. Hartley, 1953
“It's our expectation of how things
'should' look that often trap us”
Minnie Driver’s interview to
People magazine, 2021
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”Driver’s beguiling wit and
3 candor steal the show”
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9 Publishers Weekly review
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MAY 2022
"At thirty-seven, I did not know what
depression looked like, but I refused to admit
that it could look like me: a woman with a
“Her account is vivid and exuberantly
mortgage and a helpful husband and a healthy
cathartic
child.... That I felt sadness was undeniable,
Publishers Weekly review but I felt no right to claim it."
Courtney Maum
“When we bang our fists
against the bars of middle
age, it’s usually because
there is a voice within us that
is sick to death of going
unused.”
Courtney Maum
MAY 2022
“knotty yet moving memoir…
“Mostly engaging, the narrative at
…Out of this comes a luminous times seems self-serving despite the
narrative of love, transgression, and author’s efforts at candor.
forgiveness, and of the ties that bind
despite chafing” A complicated family saga”
Publishers Weekly review Kirkus review
MAY 2022
“..mix of telling anecdote and pithy
research…”
UK Mail Online review
“This is ideal history; tales of people like us,
who tell you that the past is closer than you
think.”
Daily Telegraph review
APRIL 2022
The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain is
available in print and through hoopla
“VERDICT: Do we need yet
another book on Gotti?
Gleeson answers the question
with a resounding yes”
Library Journal review
MAY 2022
APRIL 2022
Captivating story chronicling rise
In-depth look at the Italian and fall of “Teflon Don”
food journey to America
The barista’s 'anti-virus tool‘—Espresso on a shovel
Florence, Italy, 2020
Source: UK Daily Mail
MAY 2022
"Bittersweet" is a biography and celebration of the
"melancholic" disposition in a culture fixated on
relentless positivity.
While "Bittersweet" is a noble and welcome effort to
expand the language of vulnerability - and Cain remains
a respected thought leader - the book suffers from
hopscotch evidentiary support, a meandering structure
and a sustained mood of inquiry.
Washington Post review
Bittersweet
Teachings APRIL 2022“That I arrived at this moment in the
book with my heart in my throat
speaks to how skillfully Yovanovitch
narrates her life story.
New York Times review
Marie Yovanovitch recounts
her career in public service
“Gripping account of this
Kafkaesque scandal”
Publisher weekly review
MARCH 2022
Watch Marie Yovanovitch’s
interviewit’s a spooky, gripping read about the difference
between fate and coincidence -and has already been
bought by Amazon in a 19-way auction for the screen
rights.
Evening Standard review
An enveloping, unsettling book, gorgeously written
and profound.”
Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain
MAY 2022Bitcoins
Stablecoins
2009 Airdrop
Nobody
17%
Tokens
2021
Hot Wallet
90%
2029
Source: The New Yorker
Oracle
Everyday Americans bitcoins
ownership
Source: Ric Edelman
BlockchainAs cryptocurrencies have become more
mainstream, average investors have wondered
whether and how to use them safely and
effectively in their portfolios.
I recommend Ric Edelman's "The Truth About
Crypto“
Chicago Tribune review
Edelman is here to demystify this new
phenomenon.
Library Journal review
The Truth about Crypto is available in print
and through Libby MAY 2022The author avoids jargon,
arguing against the idea of
surgeons as a quasi-priestly elite
and emphasizing that surgery is,
ultimately, about saving lives
rather than building reputations
Kirkus review
Rutkow has a raconteur's
touch, and he is especially
good on the rugged,
difficult, obstinate
characters that propelled
the field's advance during a
MAY 2022 heroic age of medicine.
San Francisco Chronicle
The book may satisfy fashion industry review
devotees, but Anna ’s iconic sunglasses
still don't come off
MAY 2020 Kirkus review
Anna Wintour Is Not the Star of André Leon Talley’s
Memoir. He Is.
New York Times review MARCH 2022
So come for gossip…But stay for the truths
inadvertently revealed This survey - by turns fascinating and grisly - is
nothing less than a history of the modern world.
New York Times review
New York Times reviewHoopla Finds
Evocative, moving, funny and furious
Eloquent tribute Sunday Times (UK) review
Wall Street Journal review
Browder's story begins as Bejeweled and besieged by
bildungsroman and ends as male admirers, Miriam Leslie
Greek tragedy. fed the gossip columns. She
also ran a media empire.
Washington Post review Wall Street Journal review
MARCH 2022
Katharine Gregorio tells Clark's story
in engaging, well-researched and MARCH 2022
vivid detail.
OCTOBER 2015
Wall Street Journal review
Browder's earnestness about MARCH 2022 A barbed love letter from a writer to his
Magnitsky and candor about country—contradictions and all.
his own weaknesses and Her subject is no heroine, no Wall Street Journal review
regrets are disarming and role model, no rebel. For all “O’Toole has not invented the form, but
make "Red Notice" an that, her story sparkles. he comes close to perfecting it.”
unusually affecting book. New York Times review
The Christian Science New York Times review
Monitor reviewYou can also read
