Venice: A New History – Thomas F. Madden
Venice isn’t just a gem of a city, it is also one of the most historically significant cities in the world.
The Lathe of Heaven – Ursula K. Le Guin
Leibniz is not once mentioned in the novel. So why do I keep thinking about him?
Xenocide – Orson Scott Card
What happens when you read the sequel to a novel you didn’t really feel needed a sequel?
A Brief History of Misogyny – J Holland
A Brief History of Misogyny is an intense retelling of many of the horrors of human history.
For We Are Many – Dennis E Taylor
For We Are Many raises the stakes on what was set up in the first book of the series.
The Mother Tongue – Bill Bryson
Reading this felt like a review course, but maybe that isn’t always a bad thing.
Train Dreams – Denis Johnson
Denis Johnson’s virtue seems to be his concision, and this is rather clear in ‘Train Dreams’.
Alpha God – Hector A. Garcia
I don’t normally go too much into myself in these reviews, but I think in this case it may be
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
On the second reading, a decade after the first, I finally got this book.
Failures in Polymathy 