Read All About It

Read All About It!

Well, Oprah may have her book club, and maybe she can get books to rocket to the top of the best seller list by recommending them, but you won't find reviews of a more eclectic selection of books anywhere else. You see, Susan reads far more than most people ever will, and on topics that range from forensic science to history to children's literature. Any of which might show up in these pages.

With that let's get started, click on any book, and remember to check back every month, as a new review will be added; it's up to you to figure out which one.

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And, course, previous reviews:
We Die Alone David Howarth	I'm a Stranger Here Myself Bill Bryson	Round Ireland with a Fridge Tony Hawks	Up the Amazon without a Paddle Doug Lansky
Animal Dreams Barbara Kingsolver	The Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver	The Lost Continent Bill Bryson	The Pinball Effect James Burke
The Bafut Beagles Gerald Durrell	Menagerie Manor Gerald Durrell	How the Irish Saved Civilization Thomas Cahill	In a Sunburned Country Bill Bryson
Notes from a Small Island Bill Bryson	Two in the Bush Gerald Durrell	High Tide in Tucson Barbara Kingsolver	A Tuscan Childhood Kinta Beevor
Come Back Alive Robert Young Pelton	Nora, Nora Anne River Siddons	The Lighthouse, The Cat, and The Sea Russell Hoban	Slacks and Calluses Constance Bowman Clare Marie Allen
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café Fannie Flagg	The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody Will Cuppy	Prodigal Summer Barbara Kingsolver	To Serve Them all My Days R.F. Delderfield
The Cat Who Covered the World Christopher S. Wren	Lazy B Sandra Day O'Connor H. Alan Day	Made in America Bill Bryson	A Beautiful Mind Sylvia Nasar
Bean Blossom Dreams Sallyann J. Murphey	How to Attract the Wombat Will Cuppy	Life Among the Savages Shirley Jackson	Noodling for Flatheads Burkhard Bilger
Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads Steven Asma	African Diary Bill Bryson	Educating Esmé Esmé Raji Codell	The Mouse and His Child Russell Hoban
Small Wonder Barbara Kingsolver	Salt Mark Kurlansky	A Childhood in Scotland Christian Miller	My Cat Spit McGee Willie Morris
Ruined by Reading Lynne Sharon Schwartz	A Short History of Neary Everything Bill Bryson	Zarafa Michael Allin	To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee
Catkin Antonia Barber	Time Its Origin, Its Enigma, Its History Alexander Waugh	All Over but the Shoutin' Rick Bragg	Among the Bears Benjamin Kilham
Driving Mr. Albert Michael Paterniti	The Trust Susan E. Tifft Alex S. Jones	Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time Micheal Perry	Breaking Clean Judy Blunt
This Hill, This Valley Hal Borland	Following the Sun John Hanson Mitchell	The Olive Farm Carol Drinkwater	A Border Passage Leila Ahmed
McCarthy's Bar Pete McCarthy	Road Scholar Andrei Codrescu	Cod Mark Kurlansky	Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston
The Outermost House Henry Beston	The Cowboy and His Elephant Malcolm MacPherson	The Fur Person May Sarton	Straying from the Flock Alexander Elder
Candy Freak Steve Almond	Over The Hills David Lamb	Neither Here nor There Bill Bryson	An Hour Before Daylight Jimmy Carter
Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi	Family Life, Birth, Death and the Whole Damn Thing Elisabeth Luard	Flat Stanley Jeff Brown	The Stationary Ark Gerald Durrell
Ava's Man Rick Bragg	All The Strange Hours Loren Eisley	Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain	Home Ground Barry Lopez, Ed.
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid Bill Bryson	Can't Wait to get to Heaven Fannie Flagg	No Touch Monkey Ayun Halliday	Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves Gary Paul Nabhan
The Children's Blizzard David Laskin	The Big Oyster Mark Kurlansky	Japanland Karen Muller	Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Barbara Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp, & Camille Kingsolver
Omnivore's Dilemma Michael Pollan	Truck: A Love Story Michael Perry	Zero at the Bone Eric Toso	1491 Charles C. Mann
Flesh and Bone Jefferson Bass	Off Main Street Michael Perry	In Defense of Food Michael Pollen	First We Quit Our Jobs Marilyn J. Abraham
Little Heathens Mildred Armstrong Kalish	Way Off the Road Bill Geist	Summers with the Bears Jack Becklund	Central Park after Dark Marie Winn
Farewell My Subaru Doug Fine	Dewey Vicki Myron	Wesley the Owl Stacy O'Brien	Queen of the Road Doreen Orion
A Supremely Bad Idea Luke Dempsey	The Hedgehog's Dilemma Hugh Warwick	Made from Scratch Jenna Woginrich	A Year in Provence Peter Mayle
The Candy Bombers Andrei Cherney	The Food of a Younger Land Mark Kurlansky	Nomad's Hotel Cees Nooteboom	Homer's Odyssey Gwen Cooper
Farm City Novella Carpenter	Cherries in Winter Suzan Colon	Twenty Chickens for a Saddle Robyn Scott	This Book is Overdue Marilyn Johnson
Birdology Sy Montgomery	The Lunatic Express Carl Hoffman	Kingbird Highway Kenn Kaufman	The Last Empty Places Peter Stark
Crossing with the Virgin Kathryn Ferguson, Norma A. Price, and Ted Parks	The Cicumference of Home Kurt Hoelting	Coop Michael Perry	At Home Bill Bryson
Food Heroes Georgia Pellegrini	Let's Bring Back Lesley M. M. Blume	The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball	50 Jobs in 50 States Daniel Seddiqui
Trauma Farm Brian Brett	Growing a Garden City Jeremy N Smith