Tag: history
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Book Review: A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
Being a woman in the early 20th century was no picnic, especially when it came to getting a job. Add a disability to the mix and getting someone to hire you was near impossible. Virginia Hall broke down barriers and excelled over her able-bodied male counterparts…
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Book Review: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Before reading, I paid minimal attention to what this book was about. I was halfway through before I realized this is in the true crime genre and not a crime novel. I jumped right into it…
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Book Review: Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre
I’ve seen videos on YouTube that talk about the story of Operation Mincemeat but if it was to any extent, I’d forgotten the details. It was the Netflix movie that fully captured my attention…
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Book Review: End of Days by James L. Swanson
I didn’t intentionally read this book so close to the anniversary of JFK’s assassination, but in doing so, the story hit deeper given the way it’s written…
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Top 5: Books that discuss the JFK assassination
I’ve been wanting to do a Top 5 post for a while now. With the 59th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s death coming up on November 22nd, I thought this would be a good place to start. Books like this make for some of my favorite non-fiction reads…
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Book Review: Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Immersive, personal, and adventuresome, Jon Krakauer brings his readers to Mount Everest to recount his disastrous trek up the infamous mountain in 1996…
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Book Review: Becoming FDR by Jonathan Darman
This isn’t so much a biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as it is a prelude to his presidency. Most of the focus is on his battle with polio and how he used this challenge to shape himself into the man we look back upon today…
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Book Review: Loud by Tana Douglas
I’m always up for a book that brings me into the 1970s (and the overlapping years). This one achieved this and then some…
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Book Review: Tales from the Secret Annex by Anne Frank
It was wonderful revisiting Anne Frank’s writing. I’ve been meaning to read this since I read her diary in 2020…
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Book Review: Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
This was an interesting read given it was originally published in 1835. It offers an impartial point of view of life and politics in America at that time…