Monthly Archives: June 2024

The Finnish historian Pekka Hamalainen, currently teaching in Oxford, England specializes in US Native Americans and their history.  “Indigenous Continent” is his third book on the subject and he describes a “four-centuries-long war,” in which Native Americans “won as often … Continue reading →

We had to read a section of this back in college days – Poli Sci 101, I believe, 1972.  I recognized a passage when I saw/heard it a couple hours ago. And we had the same photo of him in … Continue reading →

Cold Wind  opens with a scene which is kind of ghastly, but at the same time it’s LOL-worthy. If you visualize the situation and hear Joe’s words to Marybeth about Missy – you can’t help but laugh.  And it gets … Continue reading →

I accidentally missed this Michael Stagg/Nate Shephard book last week, but caught that error quickly and remedied it – finished today. The series was all on sale this last week and I’d read the first 3 prior but I had … Continue reading →

Good book!  It’s older, published first in 2008, and it wasn’t quite what I expected either, but still, like I said, “Good book!”   The Forger’s Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the  Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth … Continue reading →

It took me awhile to get into this book but after I did I was hooked.  At first I really didn’t know what was going on.  By page 26 I was definitely interested and after page 63 I was going … Continue reading →

I don’t know why I haven’t kept up with the Michael Stagg legal “thriller” series.  I started out in December 2020 with Lethal Defense, Book 1 and got through Book 3, Blind Conviction, in August of last year (2023). That’s … Continue reading →

Big Oops!   And Wow!   LOL!  The Housemaid Is Watching by Freida McFaddenRead by Lauryn Allman 9h 46mRating: A / mystery-suspense-thriller-(#3 in The Housemaid series) I made what is probably a common mistake right now and got the brand- new-on-the-market … Continue reading →

“Spell the Month in Books” s is a linkup hosted on Reviews From the Stacks on the first Saturday of each month so I’m a wee bit late. Our month is JUNE!  And history is the theme of the month. So … Continue reading →

After I’d pulled this down from my Audible library I discovered I’d read it some time ago – in 2012, to be exact. That’s more than a decade ago! I guess I wasn’t too thrilled then, because it only got … Continue reading →

Well, this book was much,  MUCH, better than I thought it would be.  Going into it and even up to half way through I had reservations about bothering to finish.  And then at some point there – 1/3 or 1/2 … Continue reading →

I read the first two of this series thinking I was getting the old John Grisham, but after 40 years he’s changed some and I doubt he wants to keep writing the same old thing so he’s branched out some … Continue reading →