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What book critics are talking about the week of Dec. 16, 2008.
| December 15, 2008 edition
WHAT REVIEWERS ARE SAYING…
BIG BOY RULES: America’s Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq
By Steve Fainaru / Da Capo Press
“[I]t is Fainaru’s access to the absurdity of the boots-on-the-ground world of the private security grunt that puts ‘Big Boy Rules’ on the must-have list…. Fainaru’s skill lies in unwrapping the folly of the war on a personal level that is both enlightening and chilling.”
– MARK BRUNSWICK, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune
AN IRISH COUNTRY CHRISTMAS
By Patrick Taylor / Forge Books
“This Irish country Christmas is certainly a romanticized version of reality, but this time of year, it’s a folly that’s excusable, if not welcome.”
– ALLECIA VERMILLION, The Chicago Sun-Times
A PASSION FOR NATURE: The Life of John Muir By Donald Worster / Oxford University Press
“ ‘A Passion for Nature’ … is an engagingly written, adroitly balanced appraisal that places its subject within the emerging environmental consciousness of the late 19th century. Drawing on … letters and journals, Worster … composes a complete and completely appealing picture of a more complicated man than we thought we knew.”– DAN CRYER, The Boston Globe
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