Our Book Banter

After I finished reading the very important, but also very disturbing, nonfictional bestseller, Gulag, I really needed a book that […]

Gulag book review

Gulag, written by Anne Applebaum, tells the bleak history of the network of labor and prison camps. The Soviet Union

Pride and Prejudice was the only novel I have read by author Jane Austen. Frankly, I didn’t think I would

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always been interested in psychology. To be honest, I believe my own quirkiness

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is an inspiring true story about a boy who grew up in poverty in

I first became aware of the massive content that Lewis and Clark had compiled during their multi-year expedition while watching

Strip Tease was a bestselling book from 1993, and I was one of those readers who bought into the hype.

Is it possible that a rodent powered the economic development of the early United States? Yes, it is possible, but

At first, I didn’t think I would enjoy an old but epic novel about the Navy. But, as I started

Ken Follett’s best-selling 1978 novel, Eye of the Needle, is a page-turning story about espionage and illicit romance during World

Letters from the Earth is a controversial book of observations written by Mark Twain. Despite some harsh dissension about the

I am a big fan of Cormac McCarthy’s honest depictions of the unforgiving Old West. Naturally, I thought I should