Matt
Chicago, IL
The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice. - Martin Luther King
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Matt's Blog
MAR
27
2009
Yikes! Where has the time gone? It is time to back to some serious review writing. Can you believe that Spring is almost here? Opening Day is right around the corner!!!
NOV
30
2008
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope you had a great time with your family. I have a bunch of reviews to write now that the weekend is almost over.
| My Birthday... | Feb 20th |
| Hometown... | Ithaca, NY (Chicago is my adopted hometown) |
| You can find me... | On Viewpoints.com! |
| Surprising fact about me... | I grew up Western North Carolina, spent the summer in a log cabin with no running water or electricity |
| Favorite band growing up... | Talking Heads, Van Halen, Violent Femmes, Fine Young Cannibals (It was the 80's!) |
| Last good book I read... | The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama |
| My favorite drink... | as little coke as I can, as much water as I can stand and good wine, micro brews and an my special Mattaritas |
| Favorite website... | Do you have to ask? www.viewpoints.com |
Matt's Reviews
David Grann - The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
lover of good books, not reading enough, appreciative of good writing
APR
11
2009
The Lost City of Z is a fascinating account of Col. Percy Fawcett, one of the last and most famous "individualist" explorers who helped to map the Amazon and became fatally obsessed with finding conclusive evidence of a sophisticated and large civilization in the Amazon jungle which he referred to as The Lost City of Z.
I started reading this book at my wife's suggestion. She went to college with the author, David Grann. I continued reading it because it was educational, fascinating, and very well written. The story of Col Fawcett is told by the author both as a well researched piece of...
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