Just One Damned Thing After Another: The Chronicles of St Mary’s #1 – Jodi Taylor
I was just not in the mood for nonfiction, and there wasn't a new Laundry or Rivers of London installment...
The Ice Bowl: The Dallas Cowboys and the Green Bay Packers Season – Mike Shropshire
I picked this up a few weeks ago in Dallas (in town for a Cowboys game of course) and just...
His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt – Joseph Lelyveld
I really enjoyed this book. It covers familiar ground with FDR's last year, but the emphasis here is on remembering...
Dracul – Dacre Stoker & J.D. Barker
After a day reading, I'm in a writing mood. And boy do I have some comments on "this" one. This...
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power – Robert Caro
This is most effective work of nonfiction I have ever read. I have been reading about LBJ and JFK my...
If Kennedy Lived: The First and Second Terms of President John F. Kennedy: An Alternate History – Jeff Greenfield
This was a terrific little book. Written by an well-known ABC commentator who worked for RFK, it posits an alternative...
New Books
Picked up four last weekend in Dallas, a book on the F8F Bearcat for reference at Hobby Town, and three...
The Secret History of Twin Peaks: A Novel – Mark Frost
I listened to this on audiobook when it first came out, not realizing it was really a visual account as...
Blitz: A Novel (The Rook/Checquy Files Book 3) – Daniel O’Malley
I was a big fan of the first installment in the Checquy Files series, The Rook, and enjoyed the second,...
Roosevelt’s Navy: The Education of a Warrior President, 1882-1920 – James Tertis de Kay
This was a magnificent little book. It focuses on Roosevelt's tenure as Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1913 to...