by Amor Towles, 2016, Viking This is a lovely book, slow paced and articulate. It is a story of a nobleman in Russia who is declared a non-person by the Communist Party after the revolution and is sentence to live … Continue reading →
by Pat Conroy, 2009, Random House, New York This is an interesting book about a person growing up in Charleston, South Carolina, and his relationships with other individuals in his life. It is well-written and provides a sense of living … Continue reading →
by Peter May, 2009, Quercus, New York, London Occasionally I come across a book I really, really like and this is one of them. I particularly liked the author’s descriptive writing. His way of describing the surroundings is almost poetic … Continue reading →
by Ron Chernow, 2005, Penguin Books This is a fantastic book that is chock-full of information about Alexander Hamilton, but, more importantly, his imprint on the structure of our federal government. It also provides a lot of insight regarding the … Continue reading →
by Nathan Hill, 2016, a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York This book is pretty fascinating. It interweaves topics such as computer game addiction with the anti-war protests that occurred during the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, along … Continue reading →
Origins of a Catastrophe, by Warren Zimmerman, 1999, Times Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York Warren Zimmerman was the last U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia and the Balkan War broke out in the 1990’s. The book relates his … Continue reading →
by Lyn Millner, 2015, University of Florida Press, Gainesville, FL This book is a history of the Koreshan movement and its settlement in Estero, Florida. The movement was founded by a very charismatic individual, Cyrus Teed, who taught that followers … Continue reading →
by Anthony Doerr, 2014. Scribner, New York This book, about a young blind girl and a German boy genius whose paths cross in WWII, starts a bit slow and seems a little disjointed in the beginning, but it really comes … Continue reading →
by Yuen Foong Khong, 1992, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ This is one of the books that my son, Peter, had as a result of his master’s studies at George Washington University. I went through the box and picked out … Continue reading →
by Henry James, originally published in 1880 as a magazine serial, Audiobook read by Lorna Raver, 2008, Tantor Media, Inc. This is a novel about a young girl living in New York City about 1830 and her affair with an unworthy … Continue reading →