by Barrack Obama, 1995, 2004 This is a very interesting book, made even more so by the unusual family history of this man. It held my interest although some of the passages late in the book relating to all of … Continue reading →
by Martin Cruz Smith, 2004 This book, by the author of Gorky Park, really plods along and becomes quite a drag to read. Redeeming values are that I read it on the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster and it … Continue reading →
by Michael Crichton, 2002 I don’t think this book is worth the time. It starts out with an interesing premise, that molucules can organize themselves to do concerted activities. The book then descends to the preposterous as the molecules begin … Continue reading →
The Journals of May Dodd: A Novel, by Jim Fergus The use of fictional diary extracts makes the book read as non-fiction, and, most of the time the reader is tricked into believing that the account is not fictional. The … Continue reading →
The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin I approached the reading of this book with a great deal of anticipation because I was looking forward to a study of Lincoln written from a different perspective, a study on … Continue reading →
by John Darnton This book was interesting to me because I didn’t know much about the life of Charles Darwin and it provided many insights to not only his life, but the lives of his contemporaries and his family members. … Continue reading →
Kingsblood Royal, Sinclair Lewis, 1947, Random House, Inc., New York I picked up this book because I was out of reading material and it was sitting in our bookcase. It turned out to be a very interesting read, although it … Continue reading →
America’s Voyage of Discovery The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838 – 1842, by Nathaniel Philbrick, 2003 Nathanial Philbrick writes a very interesting history of a project that is essentially forgotten as an epic voyage of discovery. He highlights the accomplishments and the … Continue reading →
by Jeffrey Eugenides, 2002, Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York Middlesex is the book I received for Christmas last year that immediately went to the bottom of the pile as the holiday yielded for me many books that I … Continue reading →
The Epic Story of Early Naturalist Georg Steller and the Russian Exploration of Alaska by Corey Ford, 1966, Alaska Northwest Books, Portland I heard about this book from a shore tour guide in Juneau when we were on our Alaska … Continue reading →