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Solid History Rhymes With Present Themes. This is a solid history showing the rise of "organic" newspapers of the 19th century in pa

Bigoted Polemic. Just 105 days ago, I wrote of Chosen Land by Matthew Avery Sutton that "his assessment told only half the story" - and this tale tells even less in most ways, while at the same time genuinely showing more in some. Covering 500 or so years in a span of just under 700 pages (including roughly 15% bibliography,

Solid Suspense Tale On Both Levels. This is one of those book-within-a-book tales where we actually get to read the book that exists within the tale, and that part of this

Confino Expands In Unexpected Direction. One thing that I absolutely love about Confino's books is that both she and her characters are unabashedly Jewish - yet they also

C.S. Lewis Warned Us About This. C.S. Lewis wrote in 1949 that "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." Here, we have an entire book of exactly that kind of elitist, disdainful tyranny.

Larson openly admits to being a thief in several instances within this text. Her own

Utterly Disgusting LGBT Stephen King x Jeremy Robinson Cross. If you're familiar with the works of King (specifically Carrie and/ or his more.. *ahem* out there *ahem*... takes) or Jeremy

Fun Scifi Adventure Chasing Pirate Treasure. This is a fun scifi adventure that takes its cues more from the Dane Maddock

Utterly Fascinating Parallels Between History Of Cold Food Tech And AI. This is the book I was reading on my walks in May 2026, and it was truly utterly fascinating to see the parallels between the history of cold food storage and transportation technology - a history of basically the past 150 yrs in pa

Whole Lot Of History. Very Little Baseball. The biggest thing I can tell you about this book in a review is that if you're expecting a baseball tale - ie, a tale of the game itself... well, technically th

Baseball As Background Yet Overall Enjoyable Enough. This is one of those books that has several flaws - some easily fixed, others not so easily fixed - such that none of them individually are really *that* big of a problem, but in any combination amount to enough of a problem to give many readers at least some pause. Thus, while there isn't a single issue to hang any particular star deduction on, each of these issues are significant enough to me to be something li