The Magician King by Lev Grossman
In my review of The Magicians I offered this opinion as to what its author was up to: What Lev Grossman attempts to do in The Magicians is both bring this share...
Month: August 2011
Reviewers Block?
Sorry about the lack of content around here of late (thanks to Jeff for stepping up and posting some reviews). I have just not been in the mood to write book re...
Naked in Da Nang: A Forward Air Controller in Vietnam by Mike Jackson and Tara Dixon-Engel
Most war books that chronicle an author’s time at war are deadly serious. The second of the two books I recently read on the Vietnam War was a bit more h...
How Democracies Keep the Peace
I have begun participating in podcasts over at Coffee & Markets with the wise and learned Pejman Yousefzadeh. The latest edition, and my first, was posted y...
Signs and Mysteries: Revealing Ancient Christian Symbols
A fascinating quick tour through the symbols of the very early church. If you are at all interested in Christian symbolism or the history of the early church I ...