The Glen Canyon Country
Normally I don’t review books written by good friends and ordinarily ‘Bookin’ with Sunny’ doesn’t include books with footnotes, but we’re making an exception for
Normally I don’t review books written by good friends and ordinarily ‘Bookin’ with Sunny’ doesn’t include books with footnotes, but we’re making an exception for
Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 Although my professional life as a historian has been devoted almost exclusively to
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam A common observation is that “victors” write history. To say this
For Joseph Kanon, 1945 was a pivotal year, a time when world powers were transitioning into what would become the gray shadows of the cold
It’s been 30 years since the first publication of Neuromancer, the essential cyberpunk novel. A jaundiced response to the 1980’s “morning in America,” cyberpunk is a bastard
The Curiosity of Engagement I am almost one hundred and fifty pages away from the end of Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven. Up to
Wilderness and the American Mind, 5th Edition First published in 1968, Wilderness and the American Mind, the seminal book about the history of the idea of
Read a newspaper lately, in hand or online? War, famine, global warming and now Ebola — it’s no wonder publishers are publishing and readers are
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession Soon after I learned
“Among Thieves?” Shouldn’t it be “Honor Among Thieves?” Nope, author John Clarkson got it right; there is no honor among the thieves and other lowlifes
READING JOURNAL 6 It is Monday morning and I don’t have to go to work. That’s not quite right. It’s Monday morning and until
Jarrettsville fictionalizes a true event that occurred on the fourth anniversary of the Confederate surrender at Appomattox. The novel opens with the traumatic, climactic scene.
Reading Journal #9 – Thurs. – Fri., 2/18-19 It’s snowing, it’s blowing, the old gal is slowing. She went to bed with her book unread and was
BRONX REQUIEM How much time do we have for reading? Is page count important? No chores to do? Home from work or do we wait
OLD BOYS For those of us who relish old-fashioned, sophisticated spy stories in the Ian Fleming or John LeCarre mode, Charles McCarry’s novels are always
NOVEMBER ROAD To appreciate Lou Berney’s novel, November Road, you have to reimagine November 22, 1963. First, you must discard much of what you know
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