Category: Book Reviews

March 15, 2015

The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith *** (of 4)

Let’s begin with the fact that I picked up the book after the world discovered that Robert Galbraith was a pseudonym for J.K. Rowling. I can’t...

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February 22, 2015

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert *** (of 4)

Well, someone has to tell it like it is and Kolbert lays it out there as clearly as anyone possibly can. She travels the world,...

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February 10, 2015

The Alienist by Caleb Carr ** (of 4)

In the 1890s, Theodore Roosevelt did not yet have presidential ambitions. As a young man he was trying to sweep corruption from the halls of New...

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January 25, 2015

52 Loaves by William Alexander *** (of 4)

52 Loaves is one of those memoirs where a guy sets out to do something a little ridiculous, bumbles along, has silly adventures, and learns...

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January 18, 2015

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan ** (of 4)

In the central third of this novel, a New Zealand prisoner of World War II, enslaved by the Japanese endures countless, excruciatingly detailed horrors in...

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January 5, 2015

My Promised Land by Ari Shavit **** (of 4)

Israel is threatened, and always has been, from within and without. Beyond its borders are hundreds of millions of Arabs, and 1.5 billion Muslims, most of...

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January 5, 2015