Month: February 2006

  • Review: At the Mercy of the River

    An Exploration of the Last African Wilderness, by Peter Stark, Grade: A Peter Stark’s account of a trip kayaking down Mozambique’s Lugenda River is an amazing tale. The previously uncharted 750-kilometer route is filled with rapids, waterfalls, crocodiles, hippos. And throughout the river adventure, he recounts the tales of historic explorers and wanderers throughout history.…

  • Midnight Train to Warsaw

    Though it won’t be published for another eight months, you’ve got to check out the preview to photographer Andrew Faulkner’s book, Midnight Train to Warsaw.

  • Review: Night

    Night, Elie Wiesel, Grade: A “If in my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one.” This new translation of Wiesel’s Night is a masterpiece in 120 pages. I know my holocaust books, and this is one of the most chilling I’ve read. This story of the young Elie being…

  • State of War

    State of War: The Secret History of the C.I.A. and the Bush Administration, by James Risen, Grade: A Written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who broke the Bush domestic spying scandal, this book is amazing. Filled with secret details about the mismanagment of the war on terror, the distraction of Iraq, the complete lack of…

  • Review: January Books

    Read a lot this month, eh? Must be winter in Utah. Ghost. Truly dreadful. If you want to read about a guy who rescues women from being raped to death by terrorists and then rapes a girl before saving the Pope from being nuked by Al Qaeda (I am NOT making this up), you will…