Category: America
reading now: Summer of ’69
It’s been a very busy year with my new career as a museum director, and I have allowed my hobby…
review: Born to the Badge
Born to the Badge by Mark Warren This is the second installment of Warren’s fiction trilogy based on the life…
review: Adobe Moon
Adobe Moon: Wyatt Earp, an American Odyssey by Mark Warren The first in Mark Warren’s Wyatt Earp trilogy, Adobe Moon…
At the Far End of Nowhere by Christine Davis Merriman
This book came to my attention and I thought I would share it as it sounds like an interesting and…
review: Sovrin’s Star
Sovrin’s Star Mississippi Connection, Book 1 by John Reyer Afamasaga www.johnreyerafamasaga.org This historical novella follows two unique characters through the…
guest post: Terrence McCauley on the history behind The Fairfax Incident
I had several reasons for setting THE FAIRFAX INCIDENT in 1933 New York City. The first reason is that I…
review: Bonnie & Clyde : Dam Nation
Bonnie & Clyde: Dam Nation Book 2 by Clark Hays & Kathleen McFall In this second installment of Hays &…
review: While You Were Mine
While You Were Mine by Ann Howard Creel This story opens upon the protagonist, nurse Gwen Mullen, finding herself the…
review: The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Esther Greenwood is a promising, young college student from Boston who had been given…
guest post: John Nuckel on a Chance Meeting with Teddy Wilson
One of the most important events in American music happened at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 1938. There was a…
guest post: Fiction and History in Richard Buxton’s Whirligig – A writer’s choice
I decided to base Whirligig, my novel set in the American Civil War, largely in Tennessee and Georgia. The battles…
review: Alexander Hamilton: The Making of America
Alexander Hamilton: The Making of America by Teri Kanefield Alexander Hamilton is much in the news lately, particularly with the…
