by Site Owner | Feb 6, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, History
A Literal Nomadic Life By Tim Cope Bloomsbury, $28.00, 528 pages In 2004, 25-year-old Australian Tim Cope struck out on horseback across the Eurasian steppe. His journey from Mongolia to Hungary, amounting to nearly 6,000 miles over three years, was inspired by the...
by Site Owner | Feb 4, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Books About Books, Pop Culture
Read the Clues of History to Envision the Future By Tom Standage Bloomsbury, $26.00, 278 pages Writing in the Wall shares the evolution of how communication happened from the beginning ages to present day. Standage references major events in history to prove his...
by Site Owner | Feb 3, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
Marriage is Never What it Seems By David Leavitt Bloomsbury, $25.00, 257 pages David Leavitt introduces the reader to two wartime couples stuck in Lisbon in the summer of 1940. Lisbon is crowded with people trying to escape the war or even get on a ship and travel to...
by Site Owner | Jan 24, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, Portland Authors
Feel the Pain of Drugs and Families Apart By Mitchell S. Jackson Bloomsbury, $26.00, 346 pages Mitchell Jackson writes a semi-autobiographical novel The Residue Years set in Portland, Oregon. The reader meets Champ and Grace, son and mother. Grace is trying her...
by Site Owner | Jan 24, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics, Nature, Outdoors & Animals, NW Author
Changing Our Ideas About Nature Isn’t Easy By Emma Marris Bloomsbury, $17.00, 210 pages Rambunctious Garden by science writer Emma Marris is an annoying protest against the wellspring of the Environmental Movement. Marris argues that we have moved beyond the...