Where is your nonfiction section please.
Book review: Glass House, by Brian Alexander Journalist Brian Alexander is a native of Lancaster, Ohio, a city highlighted by Forbes in 1947 with the shining, post-war pride declaration, "This is America." Now it's one of many towns in America's Rust Belt that's fallen victim to plagues of misfortune in recent decades - the restructuring and eventual closures of big companies,... Continue Reading →
Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - A World on the Edge by Helen Rappaport (Amazon / Book Depository) Helen Rappaport, author of 2014's popular history The Romanov Sisters, among other titles on history and royals both Russian and otherwise, explains in her acknowledgments for Caught in the Revolution that while working as a historian she... Continue Reading →
Book review: At the End of the World, by Lawrence Millman (Amazon / Book Depository) In the winter of 1941, when most of the world was concerned with the Second World War raging in Europe, a different drama was unfolding on the remote Belcher Islands of Canada's Hudson Bay. In a religious frenzy, three Inuit... Continue Reading →
Book review: Adnan's Story: Murder, Justice, and the Case that Captivated a Nation, by Rabia Chaudry (Amazon / Book Depository) Like countless others, I was all-consumingly fascinated with the story presented in the Serial podcast back in fall 2014. We're aware that miscarriages of justice exist in the American judicial system, yet we also put an immense amount of faith... Continue Reading →
Book review: True Crime Addict, by James Renner (Amazon / Book Depository) I was so excited to read this. I'm also a true crime addict, and it's a weird thing to be. You can't really mention it at parties or anything. Luckily we're in an uptick of true crime, in different mediums, thanks to popular installments like the... Continue Reading →
Book review: Les Parisiennes, by Anne Sebba (Amazon / Book Depository) Anne Sebba writes in her extensive history of the lives of Parisian women during WWII that it's our task to understand, not to judge. And the women whose lives are covered range across such a broad spectrum, from those with selfless motives and actions... Continue Reading →
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