Book Reports

It appears that the Permian Extinction opened the way for a radical redirection of the evolutionary process to allow for Prorotodactylus, precursor to the dinosaurs.

For me the novel was unconvincing as to its premise that tension between Russia and the West represents the type of existential problem on which the safety of the free world turns.

"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."

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.

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.