Category Archives: book review

After reading “Liszt’s Kiss,” I went to the public library and found Dunlap’s previous and first novel. This one was also set in France during the reign of Louis XIV whose queen was the Austrian Maria Theresa. Again the novel … Continue reading →

Browsing the books shelves of our local library, I found a new biography about John Donne, who wrote intellectually muscular poetry. I took down the hefty book and remembered that Donne struggled with his conversion to the Church of England, … Continue reading →

Within the last week, I have read two diametrically opposed books. Marjorie Burns published a book in 2005 titled Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien’s Middle-earth. This scholarly book published by University of Toronto Press is based on the … Continue reading →

When I was traveling back from Turkey, we stopped in Heathrow, London for a 5 hour layover. There I found Adrian Goldworthy’s biograpy of Julius Caesar, titled simply Caesar.He writes in a lively, engaged tone instead of the dry, objective … Continue reading →