While I was on the road, The Oregonian ran my review of Bill Bryson’s At Home.
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About Bryson’s book
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged At Home, Bill Bryson, Book review, The Oregonian on October 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Tiger in Oregon
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Book review, John Vaillant, Powell’s, The Oregonian, The Tiger on September 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Some books seem engineered to sell big and feel written with the sale of movie rights in the author’s mind. These bids for bestsellerdom take a dramatic event and treat it as if it occurred at the nexus of major forces – history, politics, the environment, the economy, etc. – but without dwelling to much on the boring bits included to make the bloody story seem important.
The Oregonian has posted my review of John Vaillant’s The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival. See the Sunday, September, 19, 2010, edition of the paper if you prefer print.
Vaillant is scheduled to read from The Tiger at Powell’s City of Books on October 1.
