2015 Gift Books for the Guys in Your Life Taken from Neal Ferguson’s reviews for bookinwithsunny.com Bill Bryson’s One Summer, America, 1927 – Anchor Books
COMANCHES, THE DESTRUCTION AND THE HISTORY OF A PEOPLE. First published by Knoph in 1975, T. R. Fehrenbach’s Comanches remains a stunning popular history of
Wayne Johnston, writing The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, fictionalizes the life of Joe Smallwood, a real-life twentieth-century Newfoundland politician. In so doing, Johnston presents a
THE NOBLE HUSTLE, POKER, BEEF JERKY AND DEATH Pulitzer Prize Winner (“The Underground Railroad”) Colson Whitehead has done it again, written a book unlike any
Tell me something I don’t know. It’s a good conversation starter whether you’re engaging with another person or, in this context, a poem. As I
THE WAVE Niche genres have always attracted my reading attention. Recently, I’ve been drawn to books that cross investigative journalism with a healthy dose of
Payback, Mary Gordon’s philosophically emotional tale of forty-seven years of planning and plotting payback for an act of betrayal. Payback is Mary Gordon’s thirteenth novel.
One Summer: America, 1927 As advertised in the title, 1927 is the hook that Bill Bryson embeds in his engaging historical perspectives. If you are
Ever wish you could be a part of a world-famous rock band and perform at venues in cities like Paris, New York, Berlin, London? Well,
April is National Poetry Month. Once again, we appear to be a nation of “let’s not overdo it.” Just as we annually enjoin our fellow
Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel, Americanah, perceives American racism through an entirely new lens, one I had never looked through before. My generic notions of
Hard Country, A Novel of the Old West and Backlands, A Novel of the American West New Mexico author Michael McGarrity has written a dozen mysteries featuring
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