"The Great Revolt" by Salena Zito and Brad Todd
"Part of the difference as to why Trump won Erie and no other Republican in recent history has is that Trump actually came here. He showed interest."
30 Aug 2018
"The Great War" by Peter Hart
The most important chapter (for me, anyway) is the last one, where Hart writes about the war's effect on the world and its future.
06 Jul 2018
"The Sixth Extinction" by Elizabeth Kolbert
He has dubbed the current reshuffling of the earth's biota a "mass invasion event." It is, he has written, "without precedent" in the planet's history."
11 Jun 2018
"Kingdom of the Saints" by Ray B. West, Jr.
I remain perplexed at why the book seems so little known (in the LDS history canon) today.
30 May 2018
"In Full Flight - A Story of Africa and Atonement" - John Heminway
We see both Spoerry's weakness and her courage, driven by a powerful need to atone.
15 May 2018
"The Stranger" by Albert Camus
"I only meant that the hero of my book is condemned because he does not play the game."
07 May 2018
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" by Mark Haddon
He does quadratic equations in his head for fun.
02 May 2018
"Ivory Pearl" by Jean-Patrick Manchette
By 1956, Ivy has seen every conflict of the post war world up to that point: Vietnam to East Berlin.
01 May 2018
"The Kremlin Ball" by Curzio Malaparte
Malaparte's writing on the early Soviet "aristocracy" is informative, insightful, and redolent of universal truth - "Power corrupts."
26 Apr 2018
"Dark Matter" by Blake Crouch
Yep. In this book there are multiple Jasons and Danielas. And, well, it gets complicated.
24 Apr 2018
"The Quest" by Nelson DeMille
The book was a "hat trick" for me.
18 Apr 2018
"A Gentleman in Moscow" by Amor Towles.
Returning to Russia was not exactly a safe move by the Count... after all, Tsar Alexander and his family had been executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918, only three years before.
14 Feb 2018
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