Baseball for the Utterly Confused by Ed Randall; 2010; $17.95; 232 pages; McGraw Hill, New York, NY; 976-o-o7-163474-8; Checked out from Multnomah County Library, Central; 8/22-8/24 Ed Randall’s book is good for those who are new to the game and already love the game, but it will leave you even more confused with it’s explanation [...]
Hero of the Pacific, The Life of Marine Legend John Basilone by James Brady; 2010; $25.95; 254 pages; 978-0-470-37941-7; Checked out from Multnomah County Library, Central; 8/18-8/22 Former Marine James Brady finished this book on a fellow Marine and passed away the following day. The acknowledgments are written by his daughters and the bibliography was [...]
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith; 2010; 336 pages; $21.99; Grand Central Publishing, New York, NY; 978-0-446-56308-6; Checked out from Multnomah County Library, Albina; 8/16-8/18 Suspension of disbelief is a crucial element of thought while reading this fun addition to the vampiric canon. Grahame-Smith fills this story with enough historical accuracy that this is [...]
Hiroshima, Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb by Ronald Takaki; 1995; 193 pages; Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA; 0-316-83122-0; Checked out from Multnomah County Library, Central; 8/10-8/16 When I was in the Navy, we visited Japan and I took the opportunity to visit Nagasaki. After witnessing the devastation the bomb had left 30 some [...]
Think of a Numb3r by John Verdon; 2010; 418 pages; $22.00; Crown Publishers, New York, NY; 978-0-30758892-0; Checked out from Multnomah County Library, Woodstock; 8/5-8/10 John Verdon has crafted an good first novel, with nods to Shakespeare and Hitchcock. Dave Gurney is a retired NYPD detective who has solved several high profile serial killer cases. [...]
