About: The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a Pulitzer Prize winner about a father and son walking south in a post apocalyptic America. Mr. McCarthy is an American best-selling author and, as noted, won a few writing contests as well. My rating […]
Alaska by James A. Michener can be considered a bunch of loosely based novellas. Each with its own characters, drama, culture, history and story
I enjoy the Kingsbridge series because of the history and details of how they used to build tremendous buildings without power tools or sophisticated computers
I thought the novelization of movie-making made the process a lot more interesting, capturing the energy, excitement, and mechanics
A fascinating, well researched, and very ambitious effort. The story captures the immense wealth, of Babylon a long with world building grounded in history.
The Book Spy by Alan Hlad is interesting, the characters realistic, and even though a lot is happening, I never thought it was confusing.
The story takes place during the defining decades of 1917 to 1965. These are not only decades which defined Korea, but also the world as we know it
The book centers around the Korean diaspora in Japan. They are considered second class citizens, but do not see themselves as victims
American soldier Frank Moster gets involved with an Italian family and helps them survive. All of their lives will be changed during the Battle of San Pietro.
While this is certainly not a history book, the lives of the women follow the national struggles (civil rights for example) which got national attention
