Book #93 of 2025: Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service edited by Michael Lewis This 2025 title — a collection of previously-published Washington Post articles — is an attempt to put a face to the American federal government and the ranks of civil servants who work on complicated problems for immeasurable benefit …
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Book Review: Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Book #125 of 2020: Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks I enjoy the middle of this historical fiction piece, but it’s a little slow to start and goes somewhat off the rails by the end. Still, the core of the plot — about the true case of a 17th-century British village whose residents chose to …
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Book Review: People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Book #61 of 2016: People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks The Sarajevo Haggadah is a real book, a 500-year-old illustrated manuscript depicting scenes from the Jewish Passover saga. People of the Book is a beautiful work of historical fiction, tracing a possible history of the Haggadah back through the centuries with a series of …
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