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“Pie in the Sky” by Susan Purdy
Rating: ★★★★☆ Susan G. Purdy, Pie in the Sky: Successful Baking at High Altitudes; 100 Cakes, Pies, Cookies, Breads, and Pastries Home-Tested for Baking at Sea Level, 3000, 5000, 70000, and 10000 feet...
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“CookWise” by Shirley O. Corriher
Rating: ★★★★☆ Shirley O. Corriher, CookWise: The Secrets of Cooking Revealed (New York: William Marrow, 2011). I thought BakeWise was a much better book. Not only does this book (which was written...
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“Developmental Editing” by Scott Norton
Rating: ★★★★☆ Scott Norton, Developmental Editing: A Handbook for Freelancers, Authors, and Publishers (University of Chicago Press, 2009). I’ve never read a book on developmental editing before, so I...
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“Jerusalem” by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Rating: ★★★★☆ Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011). This is one serious piece of work! This 650-page tome presents an excellent high-level summary of the...
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“John Dies at the End” by David Wong
Rating: ★★★★☆ David Wong, John Dies at the End (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2010). David Wong is the pen name of Jason Pargin, senior editor at Cracked.com. If you’ve never visited the site, and...
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“Unaccountable” by Marty Makary
Rating: ★★★★☆ Marty Makary, MD, Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won’t Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2012). A vital issue, harrowing stories, and...
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“Networks, Crowds, and Markets” by Easley & Kleinberg
Rating: ★★★★☆ David Easley and Jon Kleinberg, Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World (Cambridge University Press, 2010). I really, really enjoyed this book. I learned...
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“This Book is Full of Spiders” by David Wong
Rating: ★★★★☆ David Wong, This Book is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2012). This book is a sequel to the excellent John Dies at the End by the same...
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Rating: ★★★★☆ Robert Charles Wilson, Spin (New York: Tor Books, 2005). I managed to squeeze in at least one new book this summer. Wilson’s Spin is a sci-fi novel that follows two families (three main...
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“Anathem” by Neal Stephenson
Rating: ★★★★☆ Neal Stephenson, Anathem (New York, NY: William Morrow, 2008). This is a book that’s all about the journey. It’s quite long (almost a thousand pages), and I’d certainly classify it as a...
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