Book Review: Night by Elie Wiesel

Around August 4th of this year, Elie Wiesel’s childhood home in Sighet, Romania was vandalized. The vandal spray-painted public toilet and Nazi Jew lying in hell with Hitler and Anti-Semite pedophile across the outside walls. Going through my news app, I spotted the headline, but I probably wouldn’t have read the article, because I’m not… Continue reading Book Review: Night by Elie Wiesel

Book Review: House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

The European conquest of the United States began in 1492, when Columbus dropped anchor off the coast of an island he named San Salvador. Historians often date the end of the conquest as December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek, when US Cavalry opened fire on a Lakota camp. The government called it a battle,… Continue reading Book Review: House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach

Good novels read themselves; bad novels require work. Deborah Moggach’s Tulip Fever, a bad novel, required work. In fairness to the novel, as a historical romance, it’s not the genre I often read. But I wanted to read Tulip Fever, because there’s a film based on it that stars Alicia Vikander as the female lead.… Continue reading Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach

Book Review: The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey

There’s a theory–I’m not saying I subscribe to it, but it’s out there–that you can judge the times by the horror stories it tells. In my childhood and youth, stories about ghosts and vampires–life after death–prevailed. Later it became the slasher and the serial killer. Today it’s zombies. Everywhere you turn around, you’re surrounded by zombies.… Continue reading Book Review: The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey

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