Posts tagged “book review”

Reading "A Brief History of the Caribbean" revealed how little I knew about my own region. The Amerindian genocide, the staggering African slave mortality, Europeans dying by the thousands from malaria and yellow fever, and Trinidad's surprising socialist history under Eric Williams all caught me completely off guard. Highly recommended.

Deeply satisfying finale, though Rowling seems to have written it with a screenplay in mind rather than a novel. That's all I'll say.

Reading "Curious Incident" for the first time. The protagonist, who has Asperger's, reminds me uncomfortably of myself. I want to make a list of people who should read it to understand their own behavior, which probably means I should be on that list. Finished it in a day. It made me cry.

Finished Stephen Baxter's *Space* - stunning scope, but he crams enough material for a library into 500 pages. Entire alien civilizations rise and fall in under ten pages. Almost comical, but still worth reading.