The Wars of the Roosevelts by William J. Mann
A masterpiece on one of America's most powerful political families in the first half of the Twentieth Century, the Roosevelts. The Wars of the Roosevelts is a d...
Year: 2017
The Great and the Good by Michel Deon
The book is intriguing because it almost feels like a classic. A classic in the sense that it captures the time period perfectly - 1950's America as an industri...
PhDeath: The Puzzler Murders by James Carse
PhDeath is a fast-paced thriller set in a major university in a major city on a square. The faculty finds itself in deadly intellectual combat with the anonymou...
Everything is Its Own Reward by Paul Madonna
I was enthralled by this interesting blend of drawing and text from the start and finished it that day and promptly handed it over to my artist wife for her tur...
The Clothing of Books by Jhumpa Lahiri
A lecture turned book(let), it was nevertheless interesting to read an author's thoughts on book covers and to ruminate on their role, impact, etc. It is not s...
The Swamp Fox by John Oller
Although at first blush the title of John Oller's The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution seems a bit hyperbolic, but after reading it, ...