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It's been a long time since I've read a nonfiction book. I've read a couple nonfiction graphic novels, but not a full-length piece of writing. My routine before I started blogging was reading one fiction followed by a nonfiction book. Like my students like to say, 'I like to read about things that are real!'... Continue Reading →
Unrig is a nonfiction graphic novel that provides a step-by-step plan for people to get involved in our system of laws, voting, and governmental action. Told with engaging pictures and the immediacy of the 2nd person voice, this book would be a perfect for a young or old activist trying to find their way into... Continue Reading →
One may find dates and short descriptions in a text book, or you could sit through a lecture to get a bit more personality, or even watch a documentary to see some moving pictures... but you wouldn't get the depth and insight that you do in an Erik Larson book. In The Splendid and the... Continue Reading →
This memoir follows Tracy Wilder's life as she is recruited out of her USC sorority house into the CIA. She joins the service just before 9/11 and goes into counterintelligence where one of her jobs is to analyze satellite pictures of terrorist encampments looking for evidence of Bin Laden and other key leaders. Tracy is... Continue Reading →
*An essential read for fans of true crime.* Kate Winkler Dawson does a masterful job telling the story of Edward Oscar Heinrich, a man who became one of the first expert witnesses in the courtroom. She has the utmost ability to weave together his biographic information, the research behind many crime scene techniques, and several... Continue Reading →
