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This week's bookcase includes reviews of Texan David Searcy's collection of essays and the 10th Logan McRae outing, In The Cold, Dark Ground, by Stuart McBride.
Shame And Wonder
David Searcy
Texan writer David Searcy is far from a household name, But that should soon change if these essays and meditations find the audience they deserve, something that certainly seems possible given the increased appetite of late for thoughtful non-fiction whose precise genre is hard to define. Searcy covers ostensible subjects ranging from coyotes, Google Maps and dental hygiene, to Santa's old diocese and the toys that used to come in breakfast cereal. But, really, this is the spectacle of a mind considering its world and itself - using the everyday, the specific and the peculiar to poke at universal questions of time, love, loss and perception. A sharp and...