Where is your nonfiction section please.
Book review: Deliver Us, by Kathryn Casey (Amazon / Book Depository) It’s only natural to want to believe we are in control, that when we wake each morning, we decide what we do, that our lives don’t rest in the hands of others or, even worse, of that unseen yet eternal influence commonly referred to... Continue Reading →
Book review: God Save Texas, by Lawrence Wright (Amazon / Book Depository) By the time I graduated from high school, I was sick of Texas. I did everything I could to cleanse myself of its influence...I’ve seen the same thing happen to people who come from other societies with a strong cultural imprint; they reverse the image.... Continue Reading →
Book review: The Man From the Train, by Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James (Amazon / Book Depository) "He was a tiny man who cast a huge and terrible shadow, and he knew that, and in his mind he was the size of his shadow." Between 1898 and 1912, an unbelievably large number of families... Continue Reading →
Book review: Who Killed These Girls?, by Beverly Lowry (Amazon / Book Depository) What do we actually know and how do we know it? Neuroscience teaches us that our brains are never still, even when we're asleep and have plunged into dreams. Neurons still continue to spark and fly, jumping synapses, digging up memories, creating new... Continue Reading →
Book review: The Midnight Assassin, by Skip Hollingsworth (Amazon / Book Depository) Journalist Skip Hollingsworth asks near the beginning of The Midnight Assassin: "Why is it that certain sensational events in history are remembered and others, just as dramatic, are completely forgotten?" Jack the Ripper committed his notorious murders in London's East End a mere three... Continue Reading →
Book review: The Sound of Gravel, by Ruth Wariner (Amazon) I came across The Sound of Gravel while perusing the Goodreads choice nominees, where it was a finalist in the Memoir category. I read the synopsis and couldn't get my hands on it fast enough. Ruth Wariner grew up in one of the Mormon polygamist sects that escaped American... Continue Reading →
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