**** Recommend it Highly recommend if you are a Bill Bryson fan. Highly recommend if you are considering a trip to Australia. Recommend if you are interested in Australia.  I have read a number of Bryson books over the years. My wife and I started many years ago by jointly reading "A Walk in the Woods." It was the book we were consuming before going...

*** Liked it Recommend if you like historical battles.Recommend if you have no clue about the War of 1812.Recommend if you don't know much about President Andrew Jackson. I picked up this book because I really couldn’t remember a damn thing about the War of 1812. I knew that we got the Star Spangled Banner national anthem from this war but didn’t...

I hate the the KKK.  I know, saying that out loud is not that brave. How can anybody disagree with the notion that, according to the Equal Justice Initiative, this American domestic terrorist organization was either directly or indirectly responsible for the murder of over 4,400 American citizens between the end of the Civil War and the end of WWII...

**** Recommend it When it first came out in 2013, this book took a lot of heat from religious scholars that did not agree with Reza Aslan’s point of view. I think there were some sour greats too because it shot to the top of the NYTs best seller's list and the the many works of these scholars' on the same material did not. One of their main points...

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I put “Black Hills” into my reading queue a while back because I actually grew up in the Black hills and thought it would be an interesting lark to read a novel about my home town. But because I was disappointed by another book of the same name, "Black Hills” by Nora Roberts, I stayed away. Aside: Really, it was clear to me that Mrs. Roberts had never...