Crooked by Austin Grossman My rating: 5 of 5 stars Nixon. The crook. Everybody Knows he was a disgrace to the leadership of the free world. Or was he?What if "Tricky Dick" was all the time fighting

The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump by Harry Turtledove My rating: 4 of 5 stars Warning. Do not go near this book unless you are a glutton for pun-ishment. It is simply efreetful. It really got my goetia.

Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians by Jeffrey Burton Russell My rating: 5 of 5 stars A trenchant demonstration that what "Everybody Knows" is not just dead wrong (as usual),

Pius History: The Facts Behind the Pius Trilogy by Declan Finn My rating: 4 of 5 stars Finn follows up his Pius trilogy with discussion of matters too long for footnotes. The "Hitler's Pope"

The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars by Anthony Boucher My rating: 5 of 5 stars Pure delight. An intricate plot, full of Characters. And what devotee of the Sacred Writings can resist episodes of "The

Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith by Eve Tushnet My rating: 5 of 5 stars Eve Tushnet is out, Catholic, and celibate, and doesn't give a hoot if you say that is

This Private Plot by Alan Beechey My rating: 4 of 5 stars At last, at last, the third case of Oliver Swithin and his friends and relations (or impedimenta) which publishers kept us waiting for so long.

The Heraldry and Parts of the Blazon of Arms of Father Fusion by Dr. Robert Crickett My rating: 1 of 5 stars Ghastly concotion by someone who knows next to nothing about heraldry, particularly what

The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives by Lisa Servon My rating: 4 of 5 stars Fascinating account, with lots of first-hand experience, of how people are rejecting the accepted wisdom

The Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction by Eric H. Cline My rating: 3 of 5 stars Summary of the history of the Trojan Question, and our current state of knowledge regarding the various "Troys"

The King's Revenge: Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History by Don Jordon My rating: 2 of 5 stars A serviceable summary of the matter of the Regicides. However, the title is misleading,

Trials of a Teenage Werevulture by Emily Martha Sorensen My rating: 4 of 5 stars So you think you had a tough time in school? Imagine living in a world populated by Wesen, where you are expected to

Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations by Garson O'Toole My rating: 5 of 5 stars Selected from the archives of the Quote Investigator blog, a trenchant analysis of the many

Miss Liberty's Guide To Film And Video: Movies For The Libertarian Millennium by Jon Osborne My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book is a delightful directory of films appealing to conservative/libertarian viewers.

The White City by Karolina Ramqvist My rating: 2 of 5 stars Excruciatingly boring, but does feature some treatment of the harassment by the omnipotent "liberal" state. View all my reviews

Captain Vorpatril's Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold My rating: 4 of 5 stars A bit of a letdown after the last two. With Miles and Mark on the sidelines, this is sort of an update on what the rest of the

A Pius Man by Declan Finn My rating: 3 of 5 stars How can you not like a book which starts a scene with "The Pope held the smoke grenades"? “The news coverage, depending on who you believe, the

For This We Left Egypt?: A Passover Haggadah for Jews and Those Who Love Them by Dave Barry My rating: 2 of 5 stars Oy gewalt! With Jews like these, who needs anti-semites? And do they even answer the

The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe by Stephen Harding My rating: 3 of 5 stars Devoted to a thorough investigation and account of

The Mouse That Saved the West by Leonard Wibberley My rating: 2 of 5 stars I found this inferior to the first two books, and it suffers from Author On Board with lots of lectures and anti-market propaganda