Author: Tony Horwitz Title: Midnight Rising Narrator: Dan Oreskes Publication Info: Macmillan Audio (2011) Previously read by same author: Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia Summary/Review:…
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Book Review: A Mercy by Toni Morrison
A Mercy (2008) is the latest novel by one of my favorite writers Toni Morrison. Having read all of Morrison’s novels – except Paradise which I struggled through twice and still haven’t completed – I found it different from the rest of Morrison’s oeuvre, but I can’t put my finger on what. I thought it…
Book Review: Rough Crossings by Simon Schama
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution (2006) by Simon Schama (author of the excellent Dead Certainties) tells the story of people who found liberty at the time of American Revolution, but not from the Americans. Enslaved blacks served in British regiments trading their loyalty to the king for promises of freedom (which…
Book Review: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation. Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves by M.T. Anderson
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation. Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves (2008) by M.T. Anderson continues and completes the young adult Revolutionary War saga. I read the first volume, The Pox Party, earlier this year and it was by far one of my favorite books of the year so…
Book Review: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation. Volume I: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation. Volume I: The Pox Party (2006) by M.T. Anderson begins like a science fiction story, reminiscent of The Baroque Cycle. Young Octavian lives with his mother Cassiopeia and a crowd of Natural Philosophers who go by numbers instead of names. Octavian and his mother are…
