Books I Read in 2022

Masterful! Highly recommended, very well researched and constructed page turner. Short-listed for the 2021 Booker Prize.

Powerful, poignant picture of a family trapped inside China's Cultural Revolution and the terror at Tiananmen Square. Short-listed for the 2016 Man Booker.

Very well done. Booker Prize 2021.

Excellent. Cogent. Strongly recommended. Important read for all of us.

Wonderful. Deeply thoughtful. Booker Prize winner, 1978.

Superior first novel (2012). Sensitive, insightful, funny, moving.

Thank you, God, for blessing us with the ineffable Gish Jen. Thank you, Mr. Nixon masterfully merges the short story and novel forms with powerfully poignant content both contemporary and timeless. Chinese? American? American Chinese? Our hearts all beat the same rhythm.

Intriguing. twisty little tale, very well told.

Nice collection of absorbing stories.

Travel back a thousand years to find an amazing, unforgettable abbess!

Practical, helpful, clearly explained.

Terribly sad tale, told beautifully, elegantly, poignantly in a memoir.

Several good dysfunctional family stories and one very good novella.

Some thought provoking, well-written tales.

Schweizer exposes the nature and frightening extent of behavior by individuals, corporations and universities, inspired largley by greed for money and power, that we must reverse before we have given the CCP enough rope to hang us all.

Soros is using his vast fortune to influence our local and broader elections, to manipulate us, to push his own dangerously harmful agenda. He is the real "con man and narcissist who wants the world to revolve around him." "I have always harbored an exaggerated view of my self-importance... to put it bluntly, I fancied myself as some kind of God." An evil god indeed.

Excellent, thorough analysis of all aspects of our country's growing so-called 'homeless' problem, with good suggestions for improvement. A must read.

Very nice collection of masterful pieces!

Courageous, gripping, heart-wrenching memoir.

Brilliant little piece by an extremely well-read and very talented writer.

Fine fun read.

Wonderful, entertaining celebration of calculus.

Powerful stuff. Required reading for every boy and every dad.

Non-stop action-thriller.

These stories are real gems by a master of the art.

Moving little adventure - caring for kids who catch on fire without harming themselves.

Well done!

Wonderful memoir of a speical boyhood summer in samll town America, 1928.

A must read for anyone who wants to make our world a better place.

Cogent demonstration of the extreme left liberal bias of our main stream media journalists and editors.

Quite an adventure. Life is not simple

Eduational, insightful, inspirational.

Good read. Tells it like it is. "I can tell you personally, Fox News is the single most inclusive, tolerant, and fair place I have ever worked."

Wonderful, powerful, poignant, hopeful story.

Important read for all of us interested in our Western Christian Paideia and Classical Christian Schools - the best alternative to our deteriorating public government schools.

Wonderful celebration of National History Day, Birchwood School, a family searching for truth, and standing up for what is right.

Interesting, educational, fun. Music!

Wonderful, poignant, delightful debut novel!

Excellent review of Trumps's outstanding first term in office from a very involved insider.

Enlightening, educational inspirational.

Classic, ancient advice.

Twin baby girls tell it like is. Charmingly poignant.

A sweet dream.

Excellent. An important read for all Americans

Fisher argues convincingly that the best way to protect ourselves from the dangers of the major social media platforms is to just turn them off!

Wow! Very powerful stuff from the ineffable Yiyun Li.

Real page-turner. Asks more questions than it answers. Leaves one thinking.

Nice collection of stories by a master of the art.

Unexpected, poignant stories. Well done.

A darkly attractive, mysterious tale.

Analysis of recovery from pain and jealousy after a separation.

Irresistible page turner. Painful interpersonal after-effects of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Foggy, stark, dispiriting journey into bullying, racism, Uyghur hatred. Tursun has been disappeared.

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