Warhorn, as the name suggests, is a war story. The novel is past paced, exciting and graphic, with great amounts of blood and gore and intricate battle details. The novel takes place around the year 219 B.C. in Carthaginian-ruled Spain, just before the start of the Second Punic War between Carthage and Rome. Carthage has […]
Book Review: Eve of Ides by David Blixt
February 25, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Eve of Ides is a two-act play in which the author, David Blixt marries William Shakespeare and Colleen Mc Cullough. William Shakespeare, of course, wrote the play Julius Caesar, which, as Blixt points out, was more about Marcus Junius Brutus than it was about Caesar. In his playwright’s notes, Blixt states: “It is hard to […]
Book Review: Leonidas of Sparta, a Boy of the Agoge by Helena Shrader
February 25, 2014 By 1 Comment
Ancient Sparta, with its extreme social institutions, has fascinated both observers from other Greek city states and students of history for centuries. The problem with writing historical fiction about ancient Sparta is that the Spartans left virtually no written record. While, as Helena P. Schrader points out, they were not illiterate, they produced no historians […]
Dialogue between a Christian Believer and a Non Believer by Robin Levin and Noelle Shepperd
February 5, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Noelle Shepperd is a Christian and I’m a non-believer. In October of 2012 she contacted me on Face Book and we initiated a dialogue that continued for six or seven months. Noelle felt that “As believers, we have been commissioned to share His love and truth with all who will listen. I wanted to be […]
Book Review: The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
January 7, 2014 By 3 Comments
I started reading this book because I wanted some insight into why, as so many American liberals are asking themselves these days, a substantial majority of poor and lower middle class White Americans consistently vote Republican even though the Republican’s social policies are clearly opposed to their economic interests. The author assert that loyalty to […]
Book Review: Miami, A Survivor’s Tale, by Frank Abrams
December 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Frank Abrams relates, in stark detail, how Miami, once a safe and pleasant tourist mecca for northerners seeking relief from winter ice and snow, became a noisy, polluted, crowded, gridlocked, politically corrupt and crime-ridden dystopia in two generations. Abram’s style is folksy and anecdotal. The anecdotes come one after another in rapid succession and result […]
Book Review: The Carthaginians by Dexter Hoyos
December 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The Carthaginians is the most thoroughly researched and comprehensive book I have read about the Carthaginian civilization and its history. Dexter Hoyos draws upon both archeology and ancient writings to produce as complete a portrait of ancient Carthage and it’s sphere of influence as possible, and in so doing he dispels or brings into question […]
The Widow’s Husband, by Tamim Ansary
December 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The Malik, the Malang, and the Farengi Afghanistan, graveyard of empires. I’ve visited it from time to time in the company of Rudyard Kipling, M.M. Kaye, Joseph Kessel, and James Michener, but this was the first time I have visited it in the company of an Afghan novelist, Tamim Ansary, who has an insider’s knowledge […]
Book Review: We, Monsters by Zarina Zabrisky
December 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Zarina Zabrisky is a highly talented writer whom I met in one of my writer’s groups. No one excels at writing eloquently about the seamy side of life like a Russian writer, and Zarina Zabrisky follows deftly in the footsteps of Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Nabokov and Solzhenitsyn. In We, Monsters Zabrisky valiantly explores the pathos and […]
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