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Solid Expose That Could Have Been Better With More Balanced Treatment. First off, kudos to the authors for just how well documented this book is - roughly 27%. They build the case of their central premise well, and seemingly damn near every sentence has a footnote attached, at least at times. Yes, there are a lot of anecdotes and (brief, mostly) profiles of various people, but again - *very* well documented anecdotes and profiles.

Really the only even slight negative - enough for me to

Solid Biography Of Little Known Founder. I'm not so sure that I would go so far as the title of this book in claiming that Morris is 'forsaken' in modern American history, and despite Greenb

Solid Thriller Will Make You Think - And Has Interesting Real-World Implications. This is a book that takes a passage that I literally pre

Fun Tech-Based "Magical Realism" Romance. This is a really fun "magical romance"... for the tech crowd - be they professionals (as our primary characters here) or "simply" enthusiasts. Set in Silicon Valle

Solid Thriller. This is one of those mysterious road trip thrillers where things start out clearly "off"... and turn rather explosive indeed. For those new to Dunnett, this is a pretty solid introduction, as it r

Revolutionary. If you've ever wondered how a revolution could actually happen in the 2020s world... t

Interesting Blend Of Mystery And Romance With Atypical Setting And Characters. This is one of those books that is officially listed as a "book 2" but that can absolutely be read as a standalone. The story here starts slow, w

More Comprehensive Than Some Yet Still Misses Key Elements. I read this book on my morning walks immediately following finishing Paved Paradise by Henry Grabar (about mandatory parking requirements in the US and featuring heavy discussions of some things and even sources that Gray discusses more briefly here), and I'll be following this book with Killed By A Traffic Engineer by Wes Marshall. Clearly, I have a th

Quite Possibly Walker At His Absolute Best. I've been reading Walker's books for a few years now, and they've pretty consistently been rather amazing. Truly.

This one, even with its perhaps a touch disjointed start (though well within established norms of many different versi

My grandmother died in April 2013. It was, to date, the worst death I’ve experienced - the last one among my grandparents, with my grandfather (her ex-husband) dying just weeks after my birth, my other grandfather dying when I was 20 yrs old (almost 20 yrs to the day after the first grandfather here!), my step grandfather (and effectively second grandfather, as far as I ever actually experienced a second grandfather in my life) dying that summer, and my other grandmother (the wife of said step grandfather for longer than I had been alive, even accounting for her death a few years after his) dying a few years later.

As we as a (rather large - she had had over half a dozen kids, most of whom had had at least three kids each) family were going through