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Your next favorite book
is waiting.
Davina Morgan-Witts, BookBrowse editor
A few weeks ago a copy of
What You Should Know About Politics But Don't: A Nonpartisan Guide to
the Issues by Jessamyn Conrad turned up in the mail from Arcade Publishing.
In 13 snappy chapters Conrad covers it all. I read a chapter a day (give or
take) and at the end of the first week I was a whiz on Elections, the Economy,
Foreign Policy and the Military, not to mention Health Care, Energy and the Environment. By the end of the second week I'd got my head around Civil Liberties, the Culture Wars, Socioeconomic Policies, Homeland Security, Education and Trade.
Davina Morgan-Witts, BookBrowse editor
Looking for a dose of intelligent escapism to get you through the
financial crisis and election woes? Look no further than
The Heretic Queen, Michelle Moran's second novel following
Nefertiti.
Set in the 13th century BC, The Heretic Queen tells the rip-roaring story of the life of
Nefertari, wife to Ramesses II, who is remembered as one of Egypt's greatest pharaohs and, possibly, its longest reigning (an estimated 66 years, two years longer than Queen Victoria).
The Heretic Queen is the sort of book you can stay up late reading but not regret in the morning, it's a fun, fast read but also a very good and informative one - bringing to life a time and place that maybe more than 3000 years in the past but isn't really all that different to today. Fashions come and go, wars are won and lost, people starve while others live in splendor and so on.
