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 →
by Victor Klemperer, Translated by Martin Chalmers, 1999, Modern Library Paperback Edition, Random House, New York (First published in Germany under the title Ich will Aeugnis ablegen bis sum ltestn: Tagebucher 1933 von Victor Kempere, Copyright Aufbau-Verlag GmbH, Berlin, 1995). … Continue reading →
by Carson McCullers, originally published in 1940, read by Cherry Jones, 2004, HarperAudio This book was one of my worst experiences. The novel plodded along giving the reader the minutest details about each of the character’s daily existence. For instance, I … Continue reading →
by Stieg Larsson, translated by Reg Keeland, read my Simon Vance, 2010, Audible Audio Edition The story is quite interesting and gets pretty involved in Swedish politics. Simon Vance does another great job in the reading as his voices for … Continue reading →