And the Winner is…

Kirk

12/30/2022

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A lover of year-end lists, here’s “My Top 10 Books” of the 21 I read in 2022.

Welcome your thoughts and recommendations for 2023. Happy New Year!

The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Best of Richard Matheson – Richard Matheson
The Sympathizer – Viet Thanh Nguyen
Edgar A. Poe: A Biography – Kenneth Silverman
Silverview – John le Carré
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Gambler – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sea of Tranquility – Emily St. John Mandel
Stories of Your Life and Others – Ted Chiang
Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel

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YEAR OF READING PLEASURABLY

Kirk

12/30/2021

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Happy New Year! Another plague-ridden year for the world meant another ideal one for page-turning pursuits. My Goodreads account tells me I finished 21 books in 2021, the majority novels and several published during the calendar year. Joining the “best of” lists making the rounds, please find below my favorite books read over the past […]

See You in Court!

Kirk

02/25/2017

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Past month or so got you down? Want to escape from it all? Feel like getting lost in someone else’s problems bigger than your own? William Landay’s powerful courtroom page-turner Defending Jacob might just be the cure for you. The Case: Assistant district attorney Andy Barber heads a high-profile murder trial of a brutally slain teen-aged […]

Kirk Wolcott’s First Novel

Politics, terrorism, and sports collide in this riveting debut novel by American diplomat and former sportswriter Kirk Wolcott, prompting a crucial question for our time: How far is too far when trying to change the world?