Book Notes is the local literary program hosted live by John and Steve Anderson of Calamity Creek, broadcast every Wednesday morning at 9:30 AM. Hear a new book review almost every Wednesday morning on Book Notes.
November 16: The Art of Fielding (2011), by Chad Harbach
October 26: The Magician King (2011), by Lev Grossman
October 19: The life and works of Ambrose Bierce
October 5: Stone’s Fall (2009), by Iain Pears
September 7: A Dance with Dragons (2011), by George R. R. Martin (Fifth Volume of “A Song of Ice and Fire”)
August 31: Breaking the Maya Code (1999), by Michael D. Coe
August 24: Five Vietnam War Books:
- Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War (2010), by Karl Marlantes
- To What End: Report from Vietnam (1968), by Ward Just
- On Strategy: The Vietnam War in Context (1982), by Harry G. Summers, Jr.
- Dispatches (1977), by Michael Herr
- The Things They Carried (1990), by Tim O’Brien
August 17: Prophet’s Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints (2011), by Sam Brower
July 20: A Visit to Don Otavio: A Traveller’s Tale from Mexico (originally published as The Sudden View: A Mexican Journey in 1953) and A Legacy (1956), by Sybille Bedford
July 13: Embassytown (2011), by China Mieville
July 7: Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences (2006), by Kitty Florey
June 29: Empire of the Summer Moon (2010), by S.C. Gwynne
June 22: Roman Briton Trilogy, by Rosemary Sutcliff
May 25: Two thrillers–In the Woods (2007), by Tana French and One Good Turn (2006), by Kate Atkinson
May 11: The Monster of Florence (2008), by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi
April 27: Justice (2007), by Michael Sandel
April 20: Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-first Century (2008), by Philip Bobbitt
April 6: The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics (2001), by Jane Bennett
March 30: Dirty White Boys (1994) and The 47th Samurai (2007), two novels by Stephen Hunter
March 23: Between Threats and War: U.S. Discrete Military Operations in the Post Cold-War World (2010), by Micah Zenko
March 9: City of Thieves (2008), by David Benioff
March 2: When the Thrill is Gone (2011), by Walter Mosley
February 23: The Same River Twice (2010), by Ted Mooney
February 16: The Hindus: An Alternative History (2009), by Wendy Doniger
February 9: The Nearest Exit (2010), by Olen Steinhauer
January 26: Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (2009), by Jennifer Burns
January 19: Top 10 from 2010
Fiction:
- The Godfather of Kathmandu (2010), by John Burdett
- The City & the City (2010), by China Mieville
- The Farmer’s Daughter (2010), by Jim Harrison
- Our Kind of Traitor (2010), by John le Carre
- Fun with Problems: Stories (2010), by Robert Stone
Non-Fiction:
- When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New World Order (2009), by Martin Jacques
- Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields (2010) and Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family (2002) by Charles Bowden
- Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What To Do About It (2010), by Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake
- Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future (2010), by Robert B. Reich
- Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War (2010), by Andrew J. Bacevich
January 12: Zen At War (1997), by Brian Daizen Victoria.
January 5: At Home: A Short History of Private Life (2010), by Bill Bryson.
