Author: Cormac McCarthy Pages: 287 Year Published: 2006
A father and son travel down from the mountains, all their possessions in an old shopping cart, desperately attempting to make it to warmer climates before winter comes and all of this in a post-apocalyptic America covered in the ashes of destruction - literally.
Cormac [...]
Author: Jon Krakauer Pages: 224 Year Published: 1997
I had originally posted this as an edit to the movie review. However, as I thought about it, I changed my mind. The book itself is worth having its own review. It’s a good read, well worth the time invested. More documentary than the [...]
Author: Rick Atkinson Pages: 768 Year Published: 2002
Long before the now-celebrated D-Day invasion of Europe, the United States and Great Britain conducted their first combined amphibious invasion of the more remote and distant shores of North Africa in Operation Torch. It was the first actions of the nascent United States Army, [...]
Well, if you’ve noticed I haven’t updated the “52 in 52″ in a few weeks, you’re not alone.
After pulling a string of novels, I decided to finally read a good history, about one of my favorite topics. Unfortunately, while it is good, I’ve also been a bit lazy about making time to read it.
And there’s [...]
Author: Kevin Brockmeier Pages: 272 Year Published: 2007
If you were to die, who would remember you? Your spouse? Your children? Co-workers? Maybe even your parents?
That’s the premise behind this “urban fantasy” by Kevin Brockmeier. Brockmeier creates a world - The City - in which the newly dead remain while there is [...]
