Sunday Evening Book Reviews
Arranged marriage as an alternative to Craigslist? It only sounds crazy the first time you say it. Read Anita Jain’s MARRYING ANITA.
Terrorism as suspense fiction’s new Cold War gives us DEATH IN SMALL DOSES and a pretty good review from bloggernews.net.
Is it anti-climactic to be the second man to walk on the moon? Buzz Aldrin will tell us in MAGNIFICENT DESOLATION: THE LONG ROAD HOME FROM THE MOON. (Technically it’s more a preview than a review, so sue me.)
The Economist plays Devil’s advocate on the moral highground of miliary intervention by contrasting two books: FREEDOM’S BATTLE by Gary J. Bass and AN IMPERFECT OFFERING: HUMANITARIAN ACTION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY by James Orbinski.
AuthorScoop
September 28th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Anybody who had the misfortune to be born in Montclair, New Jersey, overcame it to walk on the moon only to have to COME BACK, was entitled to be an alcoholic for the rest of his life. . . but even that he wasn’t.
Aldrin. . . remarkable . . . .