What? Me Read?

The Best Book of this period is The Teutonic Knights by Henryk Sienkiewicz!

I think a friend gave me this book, or perhaps I bought it, because I occasionally buy old books, and this one is dated 1891. It is the 59th book in the series Balzac called La Comédie humaine.

The novel is based on a tr...

Maybe this isn’t fair, but I make it a practice to write up every book I read, even if I don’t finish it. In this case, I didn’t get very far in at all.

I liked Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic well enough to finish it even though it...

Who Would Have Thought It? is the first book written by a Mexican-American woman in English. And it is a spoof. Published in 1872, it ridicules the attitudes of New England puritans and mocks politics and religion in Civil War...

I think I intended to review this book at Christmastime, but somehow it got lost in the pile.

Death in Ambush is particularly enjoyable, because it is narrated by Lee Crauford with a particularly light touch. She has apparentl...