The Wanderers Meg Howrey G. P. Putnam’s Sons Release Date: March 14, 2017 ISBN 978-0-3995-7473-4 This book…wow. I read a lot of books; a lot of good books. But this one? Wow. The Wanderers is a work of fiction but it feels real, taking place in the imminent present day […]
I didn’t know anything about Andy Weir until I read his novel, The Martian. It even took me a while to read the book; for some reason, I would check it out of the library, then let it sit around until it was time to return it. I think this […]
The Martian Andy Weir Crown Publishers Release Date: February 11, 2014 (self published in 2011) ISBN 978-0-8041-3902-1 Now, wait just one gosh darned minute. Three times – three times! – Andy Weir’s The Martian has crossed my desk, and each time I passed on reading it because I had heard […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.