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Leisureville: Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias
Andrew D. Blechman
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008
Leisureville
Great book. We live in a community on the outskirts of The Villages. We're so glad we decided NOT to buy in the Villages 5 years ago. This book just reiterated what we thought at the time. Was great to read about all the places we're familiar with, but the behind ...
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The Bible: A Biography (Books That Changed the World)
Karen Armstrong
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007
Mind-altering book
The hopes and fears of all my years of Bible study have been met in this book!
Mostly it gave me a new appreciation for the strong influence of the Jewish faith and its practices of scriptural interpretation (exegesis and midrash) on the creation of the New ...
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Suffer the Little Children: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
Donna Leon
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007
Suffer The Little Children
Leon is an excellent writer who presents a mystery while describing the life styles of the characters in fascinating detail. An outstanding read!
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Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence
Robin Karr-Morse, Meredith S. Wiley
Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998
everyone needs to understand this book
GFTN draws some frightening pictures and equally frightening conclusions. My attachment to this book is that it is essentially fact-based and scientific. I might not like the tale, but I believe the authors have done a good job at setting forth their case.
And, ...
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Peace Like a River
Leif Enger
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002
A gem on every page
Not a bad page in this book. I first found myself marking pages, then marking passages, and, finally, typing out my favorite lines. He's got that many. I've never done that before. This is an inspiring, gifted, unusual read. Great mix of spiritual, supernatural, ...
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A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
William J. Bernstein
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008
Something new on every page
What could be more boring than a book about the history of trade? This may well be the thought that passes through most people's minds when they contemplate the rich cover of Bernstein's latest tome. Yet such an expectation turns out to be totally incorrect. A ...
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The Girl of His Dreams (A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery)
Donna Leon
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008
All of Leon's books are wonderful reads, and THE GIRL OF HIS DREAMS stands tall among them.
THE GIRL OF HIS DREAMS is Donna Leon's 17th police procedural featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti, the warm-hearted cop who reads the classics and gets his greatest joy from his family. The novel opens upon a gloomy scene at a graveside service in honor of Guido's ...
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World Made by Hand: A Novel
James Howard Kunstler
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008
World made by hand
It was a good read. The writer manipulated my assumptions of the characters in a subtle, yet effective way. Also, I enjoyed the detail of description that people in the story went to cope with life with the lack of today's infrastructure. Thought provoking.
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The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL
Mark Bowden
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008
Good Stuff
There were lots of inside things in the book. I greatly enjoyed it. It also arrived very prompt.
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So Brave, Young and Handsome: A Novel
Leif Enger
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008
another hit for Enger
I am always nervous about the 2nd book by an author who has a great first novel. I was with this title, but Enger shows that he is a truly gifted writer. Every character is memorable - especially Sringo - every place is memorable - every meal and so on. I am so glad ...
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
James Howard Kunstler
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005
The Long Emergency
An excellent argument that we are at or approaching the peak oil production plateau, and speculates on the drastic future we may expect. Well done. Provokes a lot of thought about how one should adapt to eventually intolerable circumstances!
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The Lords of Poverty: The Power, Prestige, and Corruption of the International Aid Business
Graham Hancock
Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994
A wonderful account
This sobering account of the truth about aid and the turth about what the 'lords of poverty' are doing to africa is wonderful. Let us first understand the thesis. The new NGOs and those who make their living on aiding 'Africa' are in it for the money and their racist ...
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Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography (Books That Changed the World)
Christopher Hitchens
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007
Hitchens seldom disappoints
...and he doesn't here. Aside from the erudition which always seems to flow from ol' Chris's pen, his subject in this instance is something of an 18th-century soul mate. Maybe this little examination of humanist Paine will go some ways toward raising the general ...
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If You Didn't Bring Jerky, What Did I Just Eat?: Misadventures in Hunting, Fishing, and the Wilds of Suburbia
Bill Heavey
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007
something you can relate to
Stumbled across this after reading one Bill's columns in Field & Stream & having a friend tell me he had a book. Have been reading a story or two each day...makes a great bathroom book. My favorite is the one I read yesterday about Bill taking his preschool age ...
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On The Wealth of Nations (Books That Changed the World)
P. J. O'Rourke
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006
This is NOT Cliff's Notes, It's Jokes And Wide Brush Strokes
The surfeit of reviews complaining about the author's insights and accuracy in summarizing "Wealth Of Nations" has finally spurred me to post my own review, which I'll also crib, right up front:
It's jokes, people! Jokes from a guy you know is libertarian! It's not ...
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