by Robert K. Massie, 2011, Random House, New York This book is extremely well-written and researched. I felt that I really understood the woman and also gleaned a tremendous amount of Russian and European history from reading it. While I … Continue reading →
by William R. Forstchen, 2009, A Tom Doherty Associates Book, New York This book is about a nuclear detonation and the effects of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that emanated from that detonation. It is clear from this book that the impact of … Continue reading →
by Jonathan Franzen, Audiobook Read by David LeDoux, 2010, MacMillan Audio, New York This book was very disappointing. The author attempted to provide a treatise on individual freedom and where it leads, but, instead, managed only a sad portrayal of … Continue reading →
by Candice Millard, 2005, Anchor Books, New York I was not aware that Theodore Roosevelt, after his defeat in the 1912 presidential election, had embarked on a dangerous journey of exploration in the Amazon. Having braved some somewhat less dangerous … Continue reading →
by Michael Lewis, 2010, W. W. Norton & Company, New York This book is about the the subprime meltdown and the individuals who bet that these securities would default. Lewis does an excellent job of capturing the character and personalities … Continue reading →
by Douglas Waller, 2011, Free Press, New York This looked like a pretty good book as the subject sounded pretty interesting.  On the plus side, the book did have a lot of information about what went on behind the scenes in World … Continue reading →
by Michael Korda, 2009, Harper, New York This was a pretty interesting book, but only because I didn’t know much about this campaign. Missing was a sense of the hardships that the pilots and crew went through as well as the impacts … Continue reading →
by Abraham Verghese, 2009, First Vintage Books / Random House, New York This is an excellent book. It combines a pretty good plot with interesting characters and intertwines a great deal of medical knowledge (without getting in the way of … Continue reading →
A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery by Donna Leon, Audiobook narrated by David Colacci, 2010, BBC Audiobooks America This was my first Guido Brunetti mystery. It was interesting primarily because the setting was in Venice and the author does a great … Continue reading →
by Emma Donoghue, 2010, Audiobook read by Michal Friedman, Ellen Archer and Robert Petkoff, Hachette Audio This was very interesting to listen to. The voices were very realistic and the way the story was written made it believable. My only … Continue reading →