Book Reports

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."

I remain perplexed at why the book seems so little known (in the LDS history canon) today.

We see both Spoerry's weakness and her courage, driven by a powerful need to atone.

"I only meant that the hero of my book is condemned because he does not play the game."

He does quadratic equations in his head for fun.

By 1956, Ivy has seen every conflict of the post war world up to that point: Vietnam to East Berlin.

Malaparte's writing on the early Soviet "aristocracy" is informative, insightful, and redolent of universal truth - "Power corrupts."

Yep. In this book there are multiple Jasons and Danielas. And, well, it gets complicated.

The book was a "hat trick" for me.

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.

Sheds a lot of light on the period between the wars... how such a seemingly inconsequential man could rise to power cornering the minds of so many to evil intent.

However, had the British won at New Orleans, by gaining control of the access to the Mississippi River, they could have stymied America's continued growth to the west.