by Michael Barton | Jun 16, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Books About Books, History, Philosophy, Science & Technology, Social Science
Having previously written a book about literature and the Civil War, wherein he briefly mentions Charles Darwin in a section about abolitionism, Randall Fuller provides in his new book a fuller account of the influence of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and its...
by Philip Rafferty | May 3, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction
Days Without End, Sebastian Barry’s Costa Award winning 9th novel, is a visceral and lyrical western that is traditional only in the sense that there are horses and Indians. Barry’s strength is how he uses non-traditional tropes to tell the story of America. Each page...
by Seniye Groff | Dec 19, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction
Amor Towles gives the reader insight to Russia in the 1920s through the eyes of Count Alexander Rostov. The Count is a former aristocrat “sentenced” to house arrest in the grand Metropol hotel. At first his life doesn’t change too much with his large, elegant hotel...
by Philip Rafferty | Nov 22, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Viking Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Kindle, Audiobook, Audible Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] Richard J. Evans’ The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914 is the 7th book in the...
by Ashley McCall | Nov 21, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Viking Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, Kindle, Audiobook, Audible Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad series of novels, each told in the voice of a...