Category: Book Reviews

December 4, 2010

Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux **** (of 4)

Fresh out of college in the mid 1960s, just before he became famous as one of the great travel writers of a generation, Paul Theroux...

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November 23, 2010

The Tenth Parallel by Eliza Griswold ** (of 4)

Griswold travels the around the globe hanging out approximately 10 degrees north of the equator. In Nigeria, Sudan, Somalia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines it’s...

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November 13, 2010

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen *** (of 4)

A depression era circus full of interpersonal and interspecies drama occurs as characters and the circus menagerie travel by train from city to city. The...

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October 31, 2010

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston **** (of 4)

Written in 1937, Hurston captures the lives of post-slavery, southern African Americans battling to overcome poverty and profound segregation. Janie, the story’s protagonist, is married...

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October 18, 2010

City of Thieves by David Benioff **** (of 4)

Lev Benioff, a 15-year-old Russian, Jewish kid and Kolya, a deserter from the Russian Army with an overactive libido and terrible constipation, find themselves trapped...

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October 6, 2010

Exodus by Leon Uris ** (of 4)

Still singed by Holocaust crematoria, Jewish rebels fight to throw off the yoke of British imperialism in Palestine. This is a book that launched a...

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September 8, 2010

A Fiery Peace in a Cold War by Neal Sheehan ** (of 4)

Bennie Schriever invents and promotes Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles to assure the mutual destruction of the Soviet Union (and the world) in the event that...

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August 29, 2010

Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt ** (of 4)

Rosenblatt’s daughter Amy dies unexpectedly from a heart attack at age 40 leaving behind a husband, successful career, and three young children. Roger Rosenblatt and...

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August 23, 2010

Firewall by Henning Mankell *** (of 4)

What’s not to like about a depressed, grumpy 50-year-old detective fed up with being overworked and being surrounded by nincompoops? Let’s just say I could...

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July 27, 2010

Soldier’s Heart by Elizabeth Samet ** (of 4)

It’s a fascinating insight into West Point. Samet, a civilian professor of English literature wrestles with what to teach plebes. Looking at a sea of...

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