Tag: history
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Book Review: A Pope and a President by Paul Kengor
As soon as I heard about this book I knew it was too intriguing a subject to let sit it on my TBR shelf for any length of time. I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect going into it as I’ve never given any thought to which U.S. presidents were in office while Pope John…
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Book Review: The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Though this book has caught my eye in bookstores, I went into it somewhat blindly. I knew it involved H.H. Holmes, but I didn’t anticipate everything else it included…
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Book Review: The Waltham Murders by Susan Clare Zalkind
This book immediately caught my eye around its release. I have a faint memory of the Waltham murders having grown up in Massachusetts. I was fairly young at the time, so the details are murky and most of what I remember are general comments made by family members. Now as an adult, I was curious…
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Book Review: The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum by Margalit Fox
I’m always curious to learn about different people, places, and periods in history that I have little to no knowledge of. In the case of The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum, I went in with absolutely no foreknowledge. In general, I’m not super well-versed in the era of the 1800s…
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Book Review: The Incredible Life and Mysterious Death of Dorothy Kilgallen by Sara Jordan-Heintz
My monumental excitement for this book had me convinced that I was going to devour it in a matter of days. Instead, it exceeded my already high expectations and I found myself waiting for proper reading sessions where I could take my time and jot down annotations along the way…
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Book Review: Agent Sonya by Ben Macintyre
I somewhat blindly picked this book up after reading Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre. Though it was quite interesting, the subject, Ursula Kaczynski codenamed ‘Sonya’, covered so much of the WWII-era Europe that I struggled to keep track of it all…
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Book Review: Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. by Sam Wasson
This was a former DNF that I wanted to give another go. I chose to listen in audio form this time and didn’t find it any more interesting than I did several years ago. I kept reading as it was a quick listen and I really did want to enjoy it…
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Book Review: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Thanks to random YouTube rabbit holes, I was somewhat familiar with Henrietta Lacks and HeLa cells going into this book. Had I realized there was a book at the time, I would have read this a lot sooner…
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Book Review: You Learn by Living by Eleanor Roosevelt
Over the years I’ve heard a number of great quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt. I never realized she had books published until I came across this one. My high exceptions were met and then some…
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Book Review: The Day Kennedy Was Shot by Jim Bishop
I’ve read a number of books discussing the assassination of John F. Kennedy over the years and this book has been mentioned in a number of them. I was eager to begin given the date of publication. Unfortunately, it didn’t take long to realize it was going to be a long 700+ pages…