Category: Book Reviews

April 28, 2013

Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuff **** (of 4)

Detroit, once the nation’s industrial capital, is forty percent vacant. Politicians are corrupt, robbing what little money still flows through the city. Murderous thugs roam...

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April 21, 2013

Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson ** (of 4)

A computer hacker living in an unnamed Arab country with enough liberties to allow full internet access crosses the secret police who are monitoring his...

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April 14, 2013

The President’s Club by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy *** (of 4)

An interesting perspective on U.S. history as seen through the relationships of all the Presidents since Truman to their predecessors. It is a forgiving and...

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April 5, 2013

Salvation of a Saint by Keigo Higashino *** (of 4)

A Japanese husband announces that he will follow through on his promise to divorce his wife because she has not borne him a child within...

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March 17, 2013

HHhH by Laurent Binet **** (of 4)

Reinhard Heydrich, The Blonde Beast, ruled Czechoslovakia for the Nazis until he was assassinated in 1942. One of Hitler’s favorites — how is it I...

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February 26, 2013

Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo **** (of 4)

Annawadi, one of a million Indian slums, lies behind Mumbai’s glittering new international airport. Statistically speaking we all know slums suck, but before this book...

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February 21, 2013

The Hot Country by Robert Olen Butler ** (of 4)

The first in a series about a rough and tumble journalist, Christopher Marlowe Cobb, who in this episode finds himself covering a delicate series of...

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February 3, 2013

Code Name Verity *** (of 4) by Elizabeth Wein

This is the tale of a irrepressible friendship between two women doing very unusual jobs. It is World War II and England is barely holding its own...

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January 24, 2013

The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers *** (of 4)

The war is Iraq. Young men are sent to fight an unseen enemy. No, not fight them, but kill them. Over and over. For the...

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January 21, 2013

The Oath by Jeffrey Toobin *** (of 5)

In a surprisingly so-so book, Jeffrey Toobin follows The Nine, his phenomenal account of the Supreme Court’s evolution from the 1970s to the Obama years, with a...

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