Book Reports

"Traditional media hates this, but some have called Trump a true media revolutionary on the order of Gutenberg, for neutralizing the power of the curating media." Bishop

Stewart's book is instructive either for the open minded conservative who wants to hear the other point of view (Mwah sic), or the liberal who wants to have his pro Comey views about the Trump/Comey set-to validated.

Queen Victoria, who shed copious public tears on Wellington's passing, called him the greatest man produced during the nineteenth century.

In fact, the book, makes the credible argument that the rise of German naval militarism was the proximate cause of WWI.

Even more than WWII, WWI continues to shape the politics and international relations of the world.

The authors warn that the next confirmation fight involving a Trump nominee is likely to be bloodier than this one.

And, so begins the story of the Trail.

The characters are unforgettable... there are riveting battle scenes... the novel is a page turner.

"The Parisian" is set, mainly, in immediate post WWI, Nablus, Palestine. The novel's timeline runs from 1915, when protagonist Midhat, son of a successful Nablus clothing merchant, attends medical school in Montpelier, France, to the mid 1930's when seeming irresolvable violence and tension are rife between Jews and Arabs in the British Mandate of Palestine.

Specified information (as opposed to random, "junk," or "Shannon" information) can only come from a mind, says Meyer. And so it is, he says, for the most complex, specified, information sequences known to man: DNA

If you've been dispirited by the fast paced, but spare, recent formulaic Reacher novels... try the earlier ones... the plots are better and there's more meat on the bones.

Reacher, has been abruptly reassigned from Panama to a North Carolina army post, where his first assignment is to investigate the death of a two star tank general whose body has been found in a seedy motel room.