Feast Day of Fools, by James Lee Burke. Pocket Books. Crime Fiction. 2011. Paperback $10. I broke from tradition; I began reading another series by JLB. Feast Day of Fools is the second novel featuring the South Texas sheriff, Hackberry Holland. The first novel, Rain Gods, I have yet to read. The local book slinger had only this…
9 Dragons. Michael Connelly. Vision Press. Hatchette Book Group, Inc. Paperback. 2009. $10 $10 for a paperback? I know many people older than I can remember the days of nickel and dime paperbacks. My memory goes back to $1.75 and $1.99 paperbacks. But, $10 for a paperback? I hope Connelly gets about 90% of the…
On April 11th, Jason Latour announced on his blog the end of Winter Soldier (WS). Thus, I hate Latour and Klein for ending one of my favorite comic books of the last 20 years. Just kidding, Latour and Klein. Stuff happens. DC keeps killing-off Aquaman; Marvel kills Moon Knight and Namor faster than WS kills…
Civilization. Niall Ferguson. Penguin. Softcover. 402pgs. $18. Civilization is a book which should be read by anyone needing a refresher course in World History, American History, or World Civilizations. The last sentence of the book explains why: “the biggest threat to Western civilization is posed not by other civilizations, but by our own pusillanimity –…
American Nations. Colin Woodard. Viking Adult. 2011. Softcover. $20. After reading a couple chapters of American Nations, I was struck by two thoughts. First, U.S. citizens carry a lie of American History around in their heads, mistakenly believing they know the basic tenets of the founding principles upon which the United States was predicated. Second,…
The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics. James Kakalios. Gotham Books; Penguin Publishing. 2010. Paperback. $17. I am a geographer by vocation, so why am I reviewing a book on quantum mechanics? I’ll be the first to admit my own ignorance about many topics, even topics within my own field. No one has absolute, complete knowledge,…
The Cabinet of Curiosities, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Grand Central Publishing. 2002. Paperback. 626pgs. $6. I read as often as I can, as much as I can. In my younger years of the 1970s and 80s, in middle school and high school, I would push my dirty clothes against the bottom of my…
A Universe From Nothing. Lawrence M. Krauss. Simon and Schuster. Atria paperback. 202pgs. $15. Cosmology isn’t much different from geography. In fact, cosmologists are the universe’s geographers. Cosmologists study the traits, characteristics, and behaviors of our universe. To conduct such studies cosmologists must map the objects of our universe. Every galactic and intergalactic object has…
No Easy Day. Mark Davis, w/Kevin Maurer. Dutton Press. $25 Three traits about NED one might want to know about the book. First, most proceeds from the sale of the book are being donated to three organizations: allinallthetime.org, navysealfoundation.org, and tipofthespearfoundation.org. If nothing else is gained from the reading of NED, three worthy organizations have…
“Coyote Waits.” Tony Hillerman. Publisher: Harper Torch Fiction. 1990. Paperback. $8 In Navajo mythology the Milky Way was created by the trickster god, Coyote. Coyote also created the world and the Holy People. The Holy People were assigned the task of helping populate the universe with stars. The Holy People were too slow for Coyote’s…
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