Tag: nonfiction
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Book Review: The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island by Scott Davis Dawson
I’ve become moderately interested in the Lost Colony of Roanoke in the past year and found a couple of audiobooks on the subject. I haven’t looked deeply beyond that format, but I was surprised that not much was coming up on Audible. I was excited to dive into this one, but I was disappointed to…
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Book Review: Graham Greene: The Last Interview
I didn’t want this year to end without reading this much-anticipated book from my bookshelf that somehow kept getting shuffled to the bottom of my priority list. Unfortunately, now that I’ve finally read it, I realize that this wasn’t as spectacular as I’d built it up to be in my mind…
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Book Review: Food for Thought by Alton Brown
Growing up, Good Eats was my favorite Food Network show. I remembered enjoying Alton Brown’s approach to teaching about food and food science (to this day, I cannot pick up a bag of sliced bread without thinking about him squishing the bag to show how much air is in there)…
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Book Review: The Roosevelt I Knew by Frances Perkins
Despite having grown up interested in the Great Depression and World War II eras, I never did much research on Franklin Roosevelt as a person. I came across this book secondhand around the time I read Becoming Madam Secretary (a fictionalized account of Frances Perkins’ life), and I thought it would be fascinating to read about FDR…
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Book Review: Twenty-Six Seconds by Alexandra Zapruder
It was interesting to hear about the history of the Zapruder film from the perspective of Abraham Zapruder’s granddaughter. Sad as I am to admit this, the moral questions surrounding the film never occurred to me. Who has the right to own this? Who has the right to watch it? This book discusses questions like…
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Book Review: Picky by Helen Zoe Veit
As a child, I was (and still am) an extremely picky eater, so the title and synopsis of this book immediately caught my eye. I never thought of pickiness as being a ‘new’ thing among children, but it made sense as I read on…
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Book Review: The Betrayal of Anne Frank by Rosemary Sullivan
I think just about everyone who has read The Diary of a Young Girl has asked themselves, “Who betrayed Anne Frank?” There have been several investigations into the case over time, but the reality is that during World War II, the people hiding in the Secret Annex were only eight of thousands betrayed similarly…
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Book Review: UFOs & Nukes by Robert Hastings
I’ve seen theories about UFOs and nuclear power discussed a lot on TV, but I haven’t read much about the topic in books. I looked forward to picking this one up, and while it did discuss a wide range of sightings/events, I felt like I was trudging through it…
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Book Review: My Friend Anne Frank by Hannah Pick-Goslar
Hannah Pick-Goslar and Anne Frank’s families both escaped Germany and moved to Amsterdam before the start of World War II. The two girls became fast friends and grew up together in the country they all thought was their refuge…
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Book Review: Warrior: Audrey Hepburn by Robert Matzen
I’ve had this on my TBR since its release. I enjoyed Robert Matzen’s first book about Audrey Hepburn, and I was excited to see a sequel of sorts. Despite my excitement, it’s taken me a few years to finally pick it up…