This novel was both hilarious and grim. The irony against forms of bureaucracy that claim authority over the people is what makes this a great anti-war novels
A Bookseller in Madrid has a ton of great information about Spanish politics and geopolitics of the time, an angle I haven’t read about before
There’s a lot happening in Songs for the Deaf by Kenneth A. Silver, from economic issues, politics, history, and morality all in the post Vietnam War era
Emilia is brave, but the horrors of the battlefield, the inhumanity of humans show her another aspect that she wasn’t exposed to in her intellectual upbringing
The Mademoiselle Alliance tells of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade was a fierce leader of thousands of people. An intelligent, cunning, and resourceful person
I enjoyed books in a similar vein, but after a strong start, the pace of The Library of Lost Dollhouses by Elise Hooper slowed down
Captain Wolfe Bowen receives a call to come check outa captured German U-Boat with two Japanese civilians on it. is carrying uranium
The Splinter Effect by Andrew is methodical and clear, the backstory is interesting and doesn’t interfere with the main narrative
The contrast between the romanticized ideals which he was taught, and the experience of a country torn by a civil war an interesting aspect of the book
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey depicts the harsh life in the Alaskan frontier, but also the an homage to the enormous and stunning wilderness