Friday Evening Book Reviews
We’ve done baseball books, and football books, and I think there was even one about canoeing, but we’ve never run across a cricket book before. Of course there’s such a thing.
The South Florida Times looks at Keith R. Wyche’s, GOOD IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH, a review of progress for American minorities in the workplace.
STOP ME IF YOU HEARD THIS: THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF JOKES, by Jim Holt, is an unfunny book about the effects of funny.
The Drug War Chronicle reviews Nicholas Rasmussen’s ON SPEED: THE MANY LIVES OF AMPHETAMINE.
So that’s twice in two days I’ve run across the name Tana French. Here’s a look at her latest, THE LIKENESS, by blogcritics.org.
September 6th, 2008 at 9:21 am
A book about cricket — imagine! Bradman - or The Don, as he’s often called here - is, well, cricket’s Michael Jordan. He’s considered to be far and away the Best Ever, and by a wide margin.
I just received, for my birthday, a book on the history of English cricket, written by none other than John Major (yes, *that* John Major). It’s been very well reviewed; once I finish with The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, I’ll delve into it.
‘Course, with your pithy two-line synopses, Jamie, I feel it’s hardly worth the time. If Carl Sandburg had been you, he could’ve done America in a limerick.
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September 6th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Both “far and away” and “by a wide margin”. “None other than …” and “yes, *that* …”.
Excellent. I picked up these techniques during my training internship at the Department of Redundancy Dept.
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