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Random Review: I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

Posted on December 13, 2017August 10, 2019 by kinman

Read it: I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong

Reviewer: Tom Sharpton
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Thomas Sharpton reviews I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong to a full crowd at December’s Random Review.

Random Review: A Gentleman in Moscow

Posted on November 8, 2017August 10, 2019 by kinman

Read it: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Reviewer: Alice Sperling
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Random Review: American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

Posted on October 11, 2017August 10, 2019 by kinman

Read it: American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard

Reviewer: Bill Lunch
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Local doctor, David Grube introduced Bill Lunch as the reviewer.
Always popular speaker, Bill Lunch entertained a full house crowd in reviewing the book American Nations at the Friends of the Library Random Review.
Bill Lunch used this map to show the different nations that Colin Woodard talked about in his book, American Nations.

Random Review: 25th Anniversary Celebration and Readers’ Theater

Posted on September 13, 2017August 10, 2019 by kinman

Connie Georgiou, co-chair of the Random Review welcomed attendees to this month’s review.

September 13: 25th Anniversary Celebration and Readers’ Theater
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All the Light We Cannot See
Reader: Emma Nichols

Being Mortal
Reader: Mary Austin-Seymour

Beloved
Reader: Fay Stetz-Waters

The Boys in the Boat
Reader: Rick Wallace

The Grapes of Wrath
Reader: Tracy Daugherty

Riverwalking
Reader: Ashlee Chavez

Seabiscuit
Reader: Gary Whitehouse

Wait Till Next Year
Reader: Elena Passarello