History

The Unknown Shore

January 21, 2014 by kimberleybear Leave a Comment

Quick Synopsis: The adventures of two young men in the British Royal Navy circa 1740 Quick Review: Good for O’Brian junkies, but not for newcomers to the works Read the Full Review

On Curveballs, Statistics, and the Good Face

January 21, 2014 by Incandenza Leave a Comment

Golden sunlight on a baseball field carved out of pristine Iowa farmland. A row of stands where immaculately dressed spectators wave little banners. Beer out of a paper cup, a nickel a pop. And young men, nine to a side, playing a game that’s as entrenched in the heart of pastoral America as the pasture itself. Only, this Norman Rockwell painting hides the full truth, because among the spectators is a man working for a major league baseball team. He’ll drive ten thousand miles this […]

Book of Ages by Jill Lepore

January 19, 2014 by ElCicco 2 Comments

Book of Ages was a 2013 National Book Award finalist in the non-fiction category. Historian Jill Lepore pieces together the life of Ben Franklin’s sister Jane and in doing so not only reveals the life of a fascinating “ordinary” 18th-century woman who happened to be the beloved little sister of a Founding Father, but also demonstrates her own prodigious skills as an historian. Lepore’s work is specifically about Jane but more broadly about history and historians, biography and novels, and determining whose lives are worth […]

That’s More Like It, Mary!

January 19, 2014 by anotterchaos 2 Comments

I have no idea why the author & book information was left out; it is there in the draft. Anyway, the book is Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach. This is the purchase link: http://www.amazon.com/Gulp-Adventures-Alimentary-Mary-Roach/dp/0393081575. Ah, this is what a Mary Roach book should be.

Strangers in a Strange Land

January 17, 2014 by Fofo Leave a Comment

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A beautiful way to start my reading year

January 17, 2014 by Malin 2 Comments

What a lovely way to start my new reading year. First of all, I want to thank Jen K for this lovely book. She gave it to me as part of the Cannonball Read gift exchange, and as I was fairly sure I wasn’t going to be able to do it justice when I was hurrying through books at the end of December to finish my triple Cannonball, I decided that it would be my first book of 2014. As it turns out, due to me getting ill over […]

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LittlePlat
on “Age would have taken her if they’d just had the sense to leave well enough alone.”
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Jen K
on “Age would have taken her if they’d just had the sense to leave well enough alone.”
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