I've recently tried to get into a pattern and I'm wondering if anyone does something similar: I alternate non-fiction book with fiction, sometimes ensuring that I work a 'serious' fiction book into the rotation.

I have Stiletto on my list for this month, but remember the Rook only in the vaguest sense. (I remember enjoying it enough to read the sequel.)

I just finished his book on Custer. I particularly enjoyed the way he showed Custer's life as a study in contrasts:
- war hero vs asprirational New Yorker
- Union General vs friend of southerners
- womanizer vs romantic . . .

Night Film was an incredibly disappointing follow up. The writing style was similarly strong, but the plot and the characters? A wee short on the plausibility scale

I just started Adam Hochschild's Spain in Our Hearts which is the first Thing I've read about the Spanish civil war in a while. It's an interesting companion to a spate of pre WWI books like McMeekin's because it makes me think about how some people absorbed the lessons of WWI in different ways. ('Never go to war…

Ironically, I just gave up on The Passage about 75 pages (or so — I'm a kindler) into the post-apocalyptic world when Amy first shows up. I really enjoyed the first bit, but I'm a bit tired of books where it is the year 83 since the horrible crisis that defeated the old world and kids are mesmerized at tales of the…

The real question is what model Interrodroid are we up to?

The real question is what model Interrodroid are we up to?

Ach.  I should have realized that someone would have posted the table read before me.  My excitement for the show led me to post before I read all the comments.

Ach.  I should have realized that someone would have posted the table read before me.  My excitement for the show led me to post before I read all the comments.

I have been reading the AV Club for years, but it is only my love for the Middleman that has finally led me to register and dip my toes into this shark tank.  (Perhaps, though, I'll be able to release some of my strategic sarcasm reserve.)

I have been reading the AV Club for years, but it is only my love for the Middleman that has finally led me to register and dip my toes into this shark tank.  (Perhaps, though, I'll be able to release some of my strategic sarcasm reserve.)