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Commando Dad: New Recruits Book review

Commando Dad: New Recruits A Guide to Pregnancy and Birth for Dads-to-Be By Neil Sinclair Chronicle Books, 2015 $16.95; 192 pages ISBN 978-1-4521-4552-5 I received this book for free from LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program. This book is a nice, quick overview of what to expect during pregnancy,

The Long View: Incubus

I read this particular book based upon John's review. I think the review is more interesting than the book was, which is why I read John's blog. Incubus: A Novel by Ann Arensberg Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1999 322 Pages, $24.00 (US) ISBN: 0-394-55696-8 Dr.

The Long View: Archetype of the Apocalypse

I've always been impressed that John could wade his way through a book like this and find something interesting to say about it. I am not sure I could have managed to finish it. John, and others of my favorite authors like Tim Powers have managed to make

The Long View 2003-09-16: Why Alexandria Burned

I too have a problem with books. According to my LibraryThing account, I have 729 books shelved in the library, with another 117 kids books in the house. I have re-shelved my entire library recently too, so I know exactly what John was talking about here. I ended up mostly

The Long View: Fredy Neptune

I haven't read this book, but I admit I'm intrigued by John's description of it. Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse by Les Murray Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999 255 Pages, $27.50 (US) ISBN: 0-374-15854-1 In "The Devil's Dictionary,"

The Long View: Little, Big

The book reviewed by John here is now old enough that its fantastical future has become alternative history. Little, Big By John Crowley Perennial (Harper Collins), 2002 First Published 1981 538 Pages, US$15.95 ISBN 0-06-093793-9 "'Paracelsus is of the opinion,' Dr. Bramble told the theosophists,

The Long View: The Future of Freedom

This is a book about the failure of democracy. That is inflammatory language, and I adopt it advisedly. One of John's projects was to show how the best guess we can make, from past experience, is that the world will tire of democracy sometime in the twenty-first century