A NOVEL IDEA: Extinction
Extinction – Douglas PrestonForge Books384 Pages I love the Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child Agent Pedergast books series. I started reading the series way back in 1995 when the first…
A NOVEL IDEA: The Games Gods Play
The Games Gods Play – Abigail OwenEntangled: Red Tower Books592 Pages I have to confess that I don’t read a lot of fantasy books. They’re not my thing. I’ve tried…
Literally the Best Reviews: A Cold Day in Hell
A Cold Day In Hell – Lissa Marie RedmondElmhurst Books LLC374 Pages I was casually looking through a website that I use to look up authors and books, I ran…
Literally the Best Reviews: First & Always
First and Always: A New Portrait of George WashingtonPeter R. HenriquesUniversity of Virginia Press240 Pages I considered writing the review of this book in tandem with Realistic Visionary. They were…
Literally the Best Reviews: Riot Baby
Riot Baby – Tochi OnyebuchiTor Books176 Pages Have you ever picked up a book that sounded amazing and started out just as amazing when you were reading it, only to…
Literally the Best Reviews: Realistic Visionary
Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George WashingtonPeter R. HenriquesUniversity of Virginia Press284 Pages Among the biographies of George Washington that I’ve read, the two books by Peter R. Henriques (next…
Literally the Best Reviews: Love Canal
Love Canal: A Toxic History From Colonial Times to the PresentRichard S. NewmanOxford University Press328 Pages I read Love Canal by Richard S. Newman immediately after I read Paradise Falls…
LITERALLY THE BEST REVIEWS: The Life of George Washington
The Life of George Washington – John MarshallFranklin Classics394 Pages In the course of a huge reading project like the Presidential one I’m undertaking, two things happen. First, it’s more…
LITERALLY THE BEST REVIEWS: Paradise Falls
Paradise Falls – Keith O’BrienPantheon Publishing480 Pages Paradise Falls by Keith O’Brien is subtitled “The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe.” There are several points throughout the book that I…
LITERALLY THE BEST REVIEWS: Homegrown
Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh & the Rise of Right Wing Extremism— Jeffrey ToobinSimon & Schuster426 Pages Being a local history guy, I often find myself gravitating towards history books that have…