Category: history
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Book Review: Conscription Reflections by Charles Palmer
I’ve been enjoying reading memoirs lately, especially ones that discuss events before my time. Conscription Reflections was a unique one. While the primary focus is rooted in the author’s experiences during the Vietnam War, he also discusses life in general leading up to and following the war…
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Top 5: Favorite Nonfiction Reads of 2025 (so far)
I’ve read a fantastic assortment of fiction books this year, but I think my nonfiction reads have surpassed those. It was difficult to build this list…
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Book Review: A Physician’s Memoir: Growing up in Mao’s China by JianJun Chen
I knew from the title alone that this was going to be an incredible story. I haven’t done much research on Mao’s China, but I knew enough going in to know that the author likely had the odds against him…
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Book Review: Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
“Looking at history through any single lens creates distortions, because history is too complex for any one way of looking to suffice.” John Green, Everything is Tuberculosis Title: Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest InfectionAuthor: John GreenGenres: Nonfiction, History, Science, Health, MedicinePages: 206 (Kindle)Published: March 18th, 2025 My Rating: ★★★★★Read: 6/2/2025…
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Book Review: What Christians Believe by Bishop Robert Baron
In this book, Bishop Robert Baron breaks down each line of the Nicene Creed, reflecting on its origin, meaning, and relation to the Catholic faith. Though a relatively short book at 164 pages, it’s a deep dive…
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Book Review: Nagasaki by Susan Southard
I knew going into this book that it was going to be upsetting, but even when you imagine the worst about a nuclear strike, it’s still worse than you could ever envision on your own…
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Book Review: Vietnam as They Knew It by Jerry L. Staub
This might be the most unique book about war I’ve ever encountered. There’s something about poetry that brings you into a subject more deeply than other forms of writing. Poetry jumps straight to the point, the rawness, and all that surrounds it…
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Book Review: Confessions by Saint Augustine
As a Catholic, I’ve heard Confessions quoted throughout my life. It was one of those books that I’ve heard so much about that I felt like I had already read it. I’m glad I didn’t let that feeling deter me from picking it up and reading it for myself…
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Book Review: Blitzed by Norman Ohler
The idea of Adolph Hitler on high doses of drugs doesn’t change the perception of the evil he embodied, but the idea that drugs might have been commonplace in the homes of the German people explains a lot about (or at least part of) why he was able to dominate them with his radical ideologies…
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Book Review: The JFK Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch
While at first glance the title of the book sounds like your run-of-the-mill ‘whodunit’ in the John F. Kennedy series, The Kennedy Conspiracy is actually about a lesser-known assassination attempt that took place before President Kennedy’s inauguration…