Monthly Archives: November 2019

Lakota America ~ by Pekka Hämäläinen

I read Hämäläinen’s Comanche Empire back in about 2010 due to reading Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynn and wanting to know more about that tribe. It was fabulous and I wanted to know more so I read … Continue reading

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The Elephant in the Brain ~ by Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson (5)

I read this for the All-Nonfiction group and I wasn’t terribly impressed although parts were interesting It seems like this book is comprised of a lot of things I already knew on some level, but had never really thought about. … Continue reading

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Permanent Recored ~ by Edward Snowden (9.5*)

*I’m going to start sticking the rating in the heading so you know first thing.* ***Before reading this book I had a certain amount of respect for Edward Snowden without co-signing everything he did several years ago. I followed the … Continue reading

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