The creator of the Inspector Montalbano novels died this week. He was 93.
Thanks to the wonderful Themis-Athena, we have been able to enter all the books so far. We have a total of 629. You can see...
This is an important book. The author compiles historical and archaeological research to provide a history of the Americas be...
I've been stocking up on board books again, for as you know, the books in all markets just keeps exploding. The little packag...
Reading (Date unknown) by Jan Frederik Pieter Portielje (1829-1908) [x]
The House of Fame - another dream vision, owing debts to French dream vision love poems, Dante's Divine Comedy, The Aenied an...
This is one of those books that give popular nonfiction a bad name. Which is unfortunate, because what could be better than b...
This is a dry, academic biography of a fascinating, little-known but impressive civil rights activist. Born in 1910, Pauli Mu...
Orange and Blue, The Library at Ardilea (c. 1911) by Patrick William Adam [x]
This is an absolutely fantastic book: an engaging, readable, at times even exciting primer on the history of the Muslim world...
This book is celebrated for being the first novel from Madagascar translated into English (though it was written in French or...
This is an interesting, though uneven, collection of stories about three generations of Hispanic women (and some of their fri...
"Homycide", "manslaughte" and "murdre." I'm surprised at how old the former two terms are. Also, "accursed Jews." Disappoin...
Arguments about race: some people can't let go of the idea that white Europeans must be intrinsically superior...