What could be better than 1,000 pages of Stephen King, more macabre than a plague which kills 99% of the world's population, or more diabolical than a devil in worn down cowboy boots? Absolutely terrific!
American Rebels: How the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy Families Fanned the Flames of Revolution
by
Nina Sankovitch
4 Stars
American Rebels is a marvelous work of history, telling the story of the founding of our nation through the...
The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch 4 Stars I found The First Conspiracy to be a very interesting account of a little known and seldom written about aspect of the American Revolution: a British plot to turn colonists (and especially colonial soldiers) to the British side and (possibly at least) to capture and perhaps kill George Washington and other colonial generals. I won the book in a Goodreads giveaway, so first of all I’d like to thank Goodreads, the publisher, and the author for a chance to read and review the book. When I entered the giveaway I didn’t realize that this was a “Young Reader’s Edition” of the book. I was apprehensive when I first saw that but still found the book very interesting and informative. The only major concession to “Young Reader’s” I noted was the very short chapters. Highly recommended. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44280876-the-first-conspiracy https://www.book
The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife by Brad Balukjian 3 Stars I was disappointed in The Wax Pack . It wasn’t that the book was bad; it was enjoyable enough. It’s just that I expected something very different, and something that I think would have been considerably more. The concept grabbed me as soon as I saw the book for the first time: open an old pack of baseball cards and then track down the players pictured to find out what their lives after baseball have been like. Unfortunately, there was far too much of the author’s own story and far too little of the players’ stories for my taste. There really wasn’t anything about Brad Balukjian that I was particularly interested in, but I really wanted to know a lot more about the players he managed to meet. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51312349-the-wax-pack
Ghost Hunting: True Stories of Unexplained Phenomena from The Atlantic Paranormal Society by Jason Hawes , Grant Wilson , and Michael Jan Friedman 3 Stars I was always a fan of the Sci-Fi channel TV show Ghost Hunters, although I admit I’m quite a skeptic when it comes to the paranormal. So when I found a copy of the TV stars’ book I’d forgotten that I owned I figured it was the perfect read for Halloween. Unfortunately, I was disappointed. There were a couple of pretty wild stories that went beyond anything I remember from the TV show, but in general I learned more about the TV show than I did about ghosts and the descriptions of each experience were very, very brief. I would have preferred a lot more detail. I guess I’m still a skeptic.
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