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Expiration Date Book Review

Expiration Date by Tim Powers Orb Books 2007 $15.95; 381 pages ISBN 0765317524 Expiration Date is a "companion novel" to Last Call. It isn't a sequel, but it shares the same world. A few characters with minor roles in Last Call end up being central

King–of the Khyber Rifles Book Review

King–of the Khyber Rifles by Talbot Mundy Carrol and Graf 1985 $3.95; 395 pages ISBN 0881841692 I enjoy reading old books. This one is only 101 years old at this point, but I enjoy the act of getting into the mind of someone from another age. Written in

Last Call Book Review

Last Call Book Review

Last Call by Tim Powers Perennial 2003 $15.95; 535 pages ISBN 038072846X Last Call [Amazon link] is one of my all time favorite books. I can return to this book again and again, and find something different in it each time. According to LibraryThing, the last time I read

Thrawn Book Review

Thrawn by Timothy Zahn Del Rey, 2017 $28.99; 427 pages ISBN 9780425287071 This was everything I ever wanted out of a Star Wars novel. Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire Trilogy was my introduction to Star Wars novels. If this had to be the last one I

Linkfest 2017-04-14

* Brazil’s New Problem With Blackness Brazil, like many Latin American countries, has a color spectrum instead a color line, the result of not having anything like a one-drop rule defining who is black and who is not. This has interesting implications if you also want to have a binary

The Comic Art of War Book Review

The Comic Art of War by Christina M. Knopf McFarland and Company, 2015 $39.95; 252 pages ISBN 9780786498352 I received this book for free as part of the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program. Another textbook from my to-read pile, this one a detailed academic study of military cartoons, both official

The Intelligence War in Latin America, 1914 — 1922 Book Review

The Intelligence War in Latin America, 1914 — 1922 by Jamie Bisher McFarland and Company, 2016 $29.95; 358 pages ISBN 9780786433506 I received this book for free as part of the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program. I requested this book because I find the subject of espionage interesting, and because the