Book Reviews of All Kinds

I'm an avid book reader and reviewer located in San Antonio, Texas. These videos are meant to help potential readers of these books to decide whether they might find them interesting or worth their time. I welcome all questions, comments and concerns regarding the content herein.

Saturday, January 3, 2015

Review of Don DeLillo's "Cosmopolis"

Don DeLillo, bless his heart. He certainly does try, but he just strikes me as one of those writers that I can admire but not quite bri...

Review of Paul Monette's "Becoming a Man: Half a Life's Story"

Paul Monette’s early life is marked by both the astounding conformity and pent-up rage that one might expect to find in the Bildungsrom...

Review of Richard J. Evans' "The Coming of the Third Reich"

Richard Evans cites some fascinating numbers in the introductory book of his trilogy on the rise and fall of Nazi power in Germany: the...

Review of Alfred W. Crosby's "The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600"

W. H. Auden once said that we live societies “to which the study of that which can be weighed and measured is a consuming love” – but t...

A Reading of Elizabeth Bishop's "In the Waiting Room"

Monday, October 20, 2014

Review of Natsume Soseki's "Kokoro"

This novel, one of Natsume Soseki’s last and written on the cusp of Japan’s epochal rise to becoming a world power, reflects the author...

Review of Allan Bloom's "The Closing of the American Mind"

Unless you were attending a university when this book was published, or have a special interest in the general ongoing dialogue we call...

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