Title: Inspired, Not Retired: Leadership Lessons from Father to Son Author: Dr. Burl W. Randolph Jr. Genre: Biography In Inspired, Not Retired, Dr. Burl Randolph Jr. combines leadership insights taken from a military career spanning three decades, with guiding principles that he learned from his father, and packages them… Read More Inspired, Not Retired – Editorial Review
Title: False Heroes: Held Hostage by Heritage Author: Christine Brandon Genre: Personal Development / Biography False Heroes: Held Hostage by Heritage is a poignant biography about Diana, who is now looking back on her life with a critical eye. The book follows her story, from her childhood during World War II in a… Read More False Heroes – Editorial Review
Title: Tapestry of My Mother’s Life: Stories, Fragments, and Silences Author: Malve von Hassell Genre: Biography / Memoir Tapestry of My Mother’s Life weaves together the story of Christa von Hassell. Christa spent her formative years in Pomerania where she was born in 1923. She moved to Germany in the 1930s, and lived… Read More Tapestry of My Mother’s Life – Editorial Review
Title: Midnight Flight to Nuremberg: The Capture of the Nazi Who Put Adolph Hitler into Power Author: Marcus A. Nannini Genre: Biography Midnight Flight to Nuremberg: The Capture of the Nazi Who Put Adolph Hitler into Power follows First Lieutenant Harry E. Watson Jr., a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps during… Read More Midnight Flight to Nuremberg – Editorial Review
Title: William Shatner: A Transformed Man Author: Dennis William Hauck Genre: Biography This quote-rich biography presents a balanced view of William Shatner as a person, an actor, a husband and father, and a visionary. It features his work with Star Trek and his various cast mates without neglecting his other facets and relationships, and it is designed to… Read More Editorial Review – William Shatner: A Transformed Man
As a non-fiction book set in Uganda, Queen of Katwe is a novel I would never normally have picked up. However, something in the story called to me and, having read the entire book in a matter of hours, I don’t regret that decision in the slightest. Queen of Katwe details the life and… Read More Queen of Katwe – Book Review
The Girl With The Lower Back Tattoo Memoirs from female comedians seem to be coming fast and furious these days. Books by Mindy Kaling, Tina Fey, Anna Kendrick, etc. are all examples of this extremely popular trend in books right now. Personally, I hate trends, I’m the person with a giant scowl on my face as people… Read More The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo – Book Review
I was kindly sent a copy of this book by the publisher Austin Macauley. It is the story of Kevin Lueshing, a British boxing champion and the dark past he’s kept hidden. Here is my review: I had never heard of Kevin ‘The Look’ Lueshing before, having never followed boxing, so when I was… Read More The Belt Boy – Book Review
“I did nothing to save the first person who died in front of me.” An inauspicious beginning to Kevin Hazzard’s decade-long career as an EMT, then paramedic in Atlanta’s mean streets, to say the least. In the aftermath of 9/11 and at the age of 25, Kevin Hazzard found himself searching for a way… Read More A Thousand Naked Strangers – Book Review
The subtitle of Mr Copacabana – An American History by Night– is peculiarly apt for this biography of the author’s father, Monte Proser. Monte, it seems, was born with the cultural history of the United States locked into his DNA. His life was lived literally and metaphorically in the nighttime world of nightclubs, addiction,… Read More Mr. Copacabana – Book Review
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