What I’ve Read (sorta): Dead or Alive

My holiday tradition continued this past year, when the wife and I drove from DC to Kentucky for the holidays. To pass the long hours of driving through the Disneyland of Depression that we commonly know as West Virginia, we listened to a book on tape. We had lots of options this time around, but […]

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Game On: Week of Dec. 24

Here is my last column for 2010. Feels good to have finished my sixth year of writing this column, and I hope 2011 brings more opportunities to expand my column’s reach and audience. The games I reviewed were Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood and Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. Thanks to the Nashua Telegraph for publishing. […]

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What I’ve Read: The Big Burn

On my Hawaiian vacation, I was able to bang through one more book, a fantastic book called The Big Burn. I read one of Timothy Egan’s previous nonfiction title, The Worst Hard Time, which was about as depressing as it could get in terms of fully describing the hell a group of over a large […]

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What I’ve Read: In Defense of Food

While I do allow myself the occasional dabble into the fiction realm, everyone by now knows my love for reading nonfiction, especially stuff that relates to food and to specific moments throughout history and their impact on the greater world or society as a whole. After reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma last year, I knew I […]

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What I’ve Read: Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk

My trip to Hawaii provided me the chance to read a bunch of books in between UK basketball, golf, snorkeling and lots and lots of food. I’ve always been a David Sedaris fan, so when I heard he was coming out with a rather bizarre book of fables involving animals, I said what the hell […]

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