by Erik Larson, 2011, Broadway Paperbacks, New York This is a fascinating book, well-written and extremely well-researched. I was amazed at how well the author could reconstruct events that occurred so many years ago. I couldn’t help compare his work … Continue reading →
by Joseph Conrad, originally published in 1903, 2005, Blackstone Audio, read by Frederick Davidson This is an incredibly good book given that it doesn’t have much of a plot and it was written by a Polish person whose English was … Continue reading →
by R. A. Scotti, Back Bay Books, 2004 I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this book. I was expecting another fairly dry (no pun intended) description of the devastation wrought by this super storm. Instead, I got … Continue reading →
by Robert K. Massie, 2011, Random House, New York This book is extremely well-written and researched. I felt that I really understood the woman and also gleaned a tremendous amount of Russian and European history from reading it. While I … Continue reading →
by Candice Millard, 2005, Anchor Books, New York I was not aware that Theodore Roosevelt, after his defeat in the 1912 presidential election, had embarked on a dangerous journey of exploration in the Amazon. Having braved some somewhat less dangerous … Continue reading →
by Michael Lewis, 2010, W. W. Norton & Company, New York This book is about the the subprime meltdown and the individuals who bet that these securities would default. Lewis does an excellent job of capturing the character and personalities … Continue reading →
by Abraham Verghese, 2009, First Vintage Books / Random House, New York This is an excellent book. It combines a pretty good plot with interesting characters and intertwines a great deal of medical knowledge (without getting in the way of … Continue reading →
by Victor Klemperer, Translated by Martin Chalmers, 1999, Modern Library Paperback Edition, Random House, New York (First published in Germany under the title Ich will Aeugnis ablegen bis sum ltestn: Tagebucher 1933 von Victor Kempere, Copyright Aufbau-Verlag GmbH, Berlin, 1995). … Continue reading →
by Stieg Larsson, translated by Reg Keeland, read my Simon Vance, 2010, Audible Audio Edition The story is quite interesting and gets pretty involved in Swedish politics. Simon Vance does another great job in the reading as his voices for … Continue reading →
by Tan Twan Eng, 2008, Weinstein Books, New York This novel is about the experiences of Phillip Hutton, a half-Chinese, half-English person in Malaya before, during, and after World War II. Prior to the war, he meets a Japanese man … Continue reading →