As if I don’t have enough serial novels to catch up on, a friend introduced me to the Amelia Peabody series. Great, now I have yet another series to get through. The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters is the third book in the series (but from my understanding, you don’t…

I’ve read a lot of books that I would describe as fun, entertaining, insightful, interesting, and even brilliant. But few would be labeled with the word: delightful. The World of Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse is a collection of short stories presented as Bertram Wooster’s diary of incidents that he and…

If you’ve been following my blog for any length of time, you know that I read just about anything regarding the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Well, there’s been a book that I’ve had my eye on for over a year… the price has usually been too high for me to justify…

Well, what can I say. Last year was everything German, this year is everything Russian. And so I bit the bullet and pulled out my copy of War and Peace and set about reading this massive book. I have to admit, I found the first 50-100 pages rather boring. But…

The Rasputin File by Edvard Radzinsky is an interesting read. Radzinsky who’s a famous playwright in Russia was able to get access to files that up to then had been sealed since the revolution and murder of Tsar Nicholas II. The “File” contains testimonies of people who had been questioned…