Book Reviews


This page contains  book reviews online as well as Reading Recommendations from staff and volunteers at the Brewster Ladies' Library.


Online Book Reviews

New York Times - http://www.nytimes.com/books has an extensive archive of reviews, bestsellers, discussions, first chapters and more.

The New York Review of Books - http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/index.html offers selections from its literary review.

Washington Post - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/style/books/ includes reviews, first chapters, bestseller lists, and other resources.

Booklist - http://www.ala.org/booklist/index.html is the digital counterpart to Booklist magazine. Includes brief reviews on a wide range of new books.


Reviews from library staff and volunteersbooklovers

Please note that opinions expressed here are those of the individual reviewers, and are not necessarily shared by the Library as a whole, its employees or directors. 

June 2010

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The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remick (Jim Mills)
Trailside Treasures, Plants of Cape Cod by Nancy Wigley and Susan W. Carr; Mudflat Mania!, Exploring the ocean when the tide pulls out! by Irene Ledwith, Bud and Betsy Ferris (James N. McCutcheon)
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum (Jim Mills)
Omnibus - From:  Archives of American Television Presents (Don Boink)
The Monument Men -Allied Heroes , NAZI Thieves, and the greatest treasure hunt in history by Robert M. Edsel with Brett Witter  (Don Boink)
The Big Burn, Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan (James N. McCutcheon)
Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany by Donald L. Miller (Jim Mills)
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan (James N. McCutcheon)
The Imperial Cruise by James Bradley (Don Boink)
A Reliable Wife  by Robert Goolrick (Suzanne McInerney)

April 2010

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Books Read on Vacation by John Figueras
Domestic Manners of the Americans by Fanny Trollope (John Figueras)
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens (John Figueras)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by A. Conan Doyle (John Figueras)
Andrew Jackson, His Life and Time by H. W. Brands (James N. McCutcheon)
Roughing It by Mark Twain (John Figueras)
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain (John Figueras)
The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer (Jim Mills)
The American by Henry James (John Figueras)
Republican Gomorrah by Max Blumenthal (Don Boink)
Daughter of Kura  by Debra Austin (Don Boink)
The Reavers by George Macdonald Fraser (Don Boink)
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer (Suzanne McInerney)
April 1865, The Month That Saved America by Jay Winik (James N. McCutcheon)
Courage And Consequence, My Life as a Conservative in the Fight  by Karl Rove  (James N. McCutcheon)
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell (Jim Mills)
Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment by Stephen Kotkin (Jim Mills)
Erewhon by Samuel Butler (John Figueras)

February 2010

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The Damned Die Hard  by Hugh McLeave (Don Boink)
Have A Little Faith by Mitch Albom (James N. McCutcheon)
Fly by Wire: The Geese, The Glide, The Miracle on the Hudson by William Langewiesche (Jim Mills)
Eyeless in Gaza  by Aldous Huxley (Don Boink)
In Afghanistan, Two hundred years of British Russian and American Occupation by David Loyn (James N. McCutcheon)
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann (Jim Mills)
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt (Jim Mills)
Island at the Center of the Earth - The epic story of Dutch Manhattan and the forgotten colony that shaped America. by Russel Shorto (Don Boink)
A Country Of Vast Designs by Robert W. Merry (James N. McCutcheon)
Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton (Don Boink)