"The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
Anne Frank's diary entries show remarkable depth of insight into human character, particularly coming from an early teen.
18 May 2016
"The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka
Is the author's message that Gregor was already living an alienated life? A life void of any humane appreciation? Were his emotions cold and his ability to communicate constrained so as to have already turned him into the equivalent of an insect?
And what about us?
10 May 2016
"The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Mike Callen has been very kind to ghost write my book review, though his review is of the movie (scroll).
22 Jan 2016
Books read in 2015 - List (no reviews)
31 Dec 2015
"The Fall of the Ottomans" by Eugene Rogan
The echoes of the disposition of these Ottoman territories in 1918 reverberate today, almost 100 years later.
28 Nov 2015
"The Brothers - The Road to an American Tragedy" by Masha Gessen
I learned, for one thing, that I had known of the level of low grade Islamic insurgency still going on in the Caucasus while we were there, I might not have wanted to go there in the first place in 2014. But, then, ignorance is bliss?
30 Oct 2015
"Gallipoli. Command Under Fire" by Edward J Erickson
08 Oct 2015
"The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories" by Lee Child
He's all there. Classic Reacher.
15 Jun 2015
Books read in 2012 - List (no reviews)
31 Dec 2012
Books read in 2011 - List (no reviews)
31 Dec 2010
Books read in 2010 - List (no reviews)
Books read in 2009 - List (no reviews)
31 Dec 2009
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