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jeffbenner rated Kitchen Confidential: 5 stars
![Anthony Bourdain: Kitchen Confidential (2012, Ecco Press)](/images/covers/1754cb49-aeda-444c-8b95-5c7e1bb4ae44.jpeg)
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying …
jeffbenner rated The Glass Hotel: 4 stars
![Emily St. John Mandel: The Glass Hotel (Hardcover, 2020, Knopf)](/images/covers/6d98b765-65ad-4a1b-a3a5-ea81a0d3abf1.jpeg)
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the …
jeffbenner rated Acts of Service: 4 stars
jeffbenner rated Piranesi: 5 stars
![Susanna Clarke: Piranesi (2020, Bloomsbury Publishing)](/images/covers/eec4579e-7d2a-418d-97aa-e4a939b6a929.jpeg)
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set …
jeffbenner rated Anomaly: 3 stars
jeffbenner rated Matrix: 4 stars
jeffbenner rated Lost Daughter: 4 stars
jeffbenner reviewed Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
jeffbenner rated Even Cowgirls Get the Blues: 4 stars
![Tom Robbins: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Paperback, 1981, Bantam Books)](/images/covers/2aebcd83-024b-40e2-86af-b20f1da8fce9.jpeg)
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
The whooping crane rustlers are girls. Young girls. Cowgirls, as a matter of fact, all "bursting with dimples and hormones"--and …
jeffbenner rated Cooking as Though You Might Cook Again: 5 stars
jeffbenner rated LaserWriter II: 3 stars
jeffbenner rated Dune: 4 stars
jeffbenner rated Beautiful World, Where Are You: 4 stars
![Sally Rooney, Sally Rooney: Beautiful World, Where Are You (Hardcover, 2021, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)](/images/covers/dd1c2bf2-0e86-4484-b3de-dcbd8dd7c9dc.jpeg)
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney, Sally Rooney
Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome …
jeffbenner rated 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus: 5 stars
![Charles C. Mann: 1491 (Paperback, 2006, Vintage)](/images/covers/1c9ce1a3-1e48-4229-878b-bb7a6421aa46.jpeg)
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.Traditionally, Americans …