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GREEN HILLS ERA reviews these are the reviews of books I've read recently what follows is what I have to say for now I will add more ... another day check other reviews @ East Bay ERA and 1st Foothill ERA and 2nd Foothill ERA

Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself - A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky

The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano

The Devil and Sherlock Holmes - Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession by David Grann

Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt

From Away by David Carkeet

A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks

War Dances by Sherman Alexie

In Search of Small Gods by Jim Harrison

The Three Weissmans of Westport by Cathleen Schine

The Harvard Psychedelic Club - How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith and Andrew Weil Killed the fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America by Don Lattin

Minimum of Two by Tim Winton

Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich

Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem

The Theory of Light and Matter by Andrew Porter

Silk Parachute by John McPhee

Where the God of Love Hangs Out by Amy Bloom

Ancestors and Others by Fred Chappell

Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B Crawford

Wild Child by T.C. Boyle

The Theory of Light and Matter by Andrew Porter

Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow  - I simply loved this book! I finished it a little after midnight one night and thought to myself "Man that was GOOD - I think I will read it all over again." So I did, and finished it the next day. This is such a fine novel based on the two extremely eccentric brothers who lived in a stately NYC mansion, a rather rundown mansion, a rather rundown and stuffed full of newspapers, books, and over 100 tons of other 'stuff' mansion. All these tons of 'collectables' were gathered over the decades by the one brother, Langley,  who ventured out into the city. His brother, Homer, was blind and lived for music - in the novel. Vicky had read My Brother's Keeper, a much older novel on the same brothers years ago and loved that book. I remember reading about them in New Yorker magazine years ago, as well. Doctorow has taken some liberties with the facts, like which brother is older, what were th

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