by Addison Fleming | Apr 26, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
Coogan’s latest foray into Irish history commences on the eve of the 1916 Easter Rising. In subsequent chapters Coogan examines the implications of this event. Ireland fought for independence from England, but at what cost? Amid redefining the reborn Irish state, the...
by Don Messerschmidt | Jun 7, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Books About Books, General Fiction
As soon as I began reading The Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World: A Novel of Robert Louis Stevenson by Brian Doyle, I was hooked. Right off, I found myself reminiscing about Stevenson’s many novels of adventure, especially Treasure Island...
by Katie Richards | Dec 13, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Books About Books
The Real Peter Pan is a sort of group biography, encompassing the lives of J. M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, and the five Llewelyn-Davies boys who inspired his work in this and other plays. The focus of the text is from the meeting of Barrie with the older boys...
by Katie Richards | Sep 28, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, History
[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, Kindle, Audiobook, Audible Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] Barbara Leaming’s biography of the often forgotten Kennedy...
by Don Messerschmidt | Jul 6, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction
[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Kindle, Audible Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound[/alert] Here is a well-informed, smoothly crafted, fast-paced novel based closely on events in Berlin...
