Rated of 5
by Michael Reed Gone for Soldiers Book
I enjoyed the book, Gone for Soldiers by Jeff Shaara, because it helps to describe the Mexican War 1846-1848, under General Scott. I enjoy the sequence of events, from the landing of VeraCruz to the city of Mexico. I would like to see that this book be made into a movie, as Hollywood helped to put together movies from the books, "Gettyburg" and "Gods and Generals".
Stranger than fiction, blending tragedy and farce, How to Create the Perfect Wife is an engrossing tale of the radicalism, and deep contradictions, at the heart of the Enlightenment.
Although heavy on the scientific details, which slowed down the story for me (OK, I admit, I was one of those liberal arts majors who skipped out on...
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Loved this book. Magical, quirky, enchanting I could go on. All books do not have to be literary fiction, sometimes it is just so comforting to read...
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Can an wiser, older narrator view the past with more wisdom than he might have possessed forty years earlier in the summer he was thirteen? Ordinary...
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U.S. ebook sales up in 2012, but rate of growth is slowing(May 16 2013) In 2012, trade book sales (i.e. non academic book sales) rose 6.9%, to $15.049 billion, and e-book sales continued to grow, although the rate of growth...
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