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Sunday Book Reviews

Written on: July 6th, 2009 by: in Reviews

The cover feature from this Sunday’s New York Times Book Review was for Methland by Nick Reding, an account of the impact of the methamphetamine epidemic on the small town of Oelwein, Iowa. The reviewer praises the book as an outstanding example of “shoe-leather reporting”- you can read an excerpt here. It could be an interesting accompaniment to the first season of Breaking Bad, which was recently released on DVD and is available through the Delaware Library Catalog. Frank Owen’s No Speed Limit, released in 2007 is another well-reviewed non-fiction account of the scourge, although Owen’s book is more scholarly than journalistic- but equally vivid.




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