Category: history
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Finally, after having tried twice to read about Martin Luther and the Reformation and giving up, I completed the job with Eric Metaxas’s edition of Martin’s biography. While I believe the other books I’d read prior to this were also quite popular, they just couldn’t hold my attention enough and, more importantly, they went into…
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Here is the sixth and second-to-last book in C. J. Sansom’s Shardlake mystery series. Although this novel is starting to show some weakness, as one would likely expect when a series has gone well past the typical trilogy, I found Lamentation to be just as enjoyable as the previous books. With Master Shardlake once again…
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I had thought that learning about L. Ron Hubbard’s Scientology in Going Clear by Lawrence Wright would have been the kookiest and nuttiest thing I’d ever read regarding religion and cults. Charles Manson is definitely another very weird chapter in American history, but I feel that both can’t really compare to the story of the…
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If there was one defining moment I had to pick that captured the golden days of sports television entertainment, it undoubtedly would have been the rise of WCW and the nWo. You just had to be there and witness it as it unfolded in real time to truly understand and appreciate the genius of it…
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As someone who is not familiar with the JFK assassination that happened in the early 1960s, The Housewives Underground by Kaitlyn Tiffany is surprisingly a very good start and not for what you’d first expect. After more than six decades, there are a lot of books on this subject and I’m sure each of them…
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How can any of this story be true? And yet, it is. The story of Virginia Hall likely goes down as one of the most incredible stories of a woman from the World War II era that I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading about. Not only did her actions help save countless lives during…
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The fifth book in the Matthew Shardlake series by C.J. Sansom, and it’s one of the best so far. It is likely one of the longest books in the series so far, if memory serves me correctly. In truly spectacular fashion, the author seems to have drawn me into Tudor London yet again. I believe…
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I’ve read a couple of investigative journalism novels by Erik Larson, and they were mostly enjoyable. The Devil in the White City, while still enjoyable, warrants a strong caution for any readers thinking this will be yet another typical true crime thriller in which either the hunt for or the life of the criminal dominates…
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Let’s face it. Not many journalists can do what the author of this book did. To investigate a story and crime in the past, regardless of how infamous it is, for nearly twenty years is quite an achievement. The amount of frustration due to roadblocks and threats would likely make all but the most seasoned…
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Here in the fourth book of the series, I find myself continuing to enjoy the Matthew Shardlake series. With Revelation, author CJ Sansom has crafted another historical fiction mystery novel that kept me reading nonstop. And yes, there was a lot of reading to be done, with the book clocking in at almost 600 pages.…
