Monthly Archives: February 2003

The October Horse – Colleen McCullough The October Horse is the latest and last in an epic series chronicling the end of the Roman Republic and the beginnings of the Roman Empire. You can’t read The October Horse without being … Continue reading →

The High Rise Private Eyes: The Case of the Climbing Cat – Cynthia Rylant, G. Brian Karas It is harder and harder to find kid’s books that aren’t tied to some commercial enterprise such as a toy, TV show or … Continue reading →

Crusade : The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War – Rick Atkinson Generally, my thought was that I would alternate my reviews on this site between fiction and non-fiction, but lately I’ve been reading nothing but non-fiction, so my … Continue reading →

See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA’s War on Terrorism – Robert Baer I started reading spy thrillers and techno-thrillers back in my late-teens, at the height of Reagan’s presidency and the 1980’s Cold … Continue reading →

The Gangs of New York – Herbert Asbury My old U.S. history book from school (which unfortunately I no longer have) skipped right over the Draft Riots of New York in a sentence or two and touched only tangentially on … Continue reading →

In Memoriam Colonel Rick Husband Lieutenant Colonel Michael Anderson Commander Laurel Clark Captain David Brown Commander William McCool Dr. Kalpana Chawla Ilan Ramon “I remember, for my part, another of those hours in which a pilot finds suddenly that he … Continue reading →