Tom Randall

Has a wider lens than Dracula, focusing on the vampire invasion's effect on the entire town.

The argument is correct but not very well-made. Still has some good background and citations.

Love the writing, didn't love the story. More like Breaking Sad

Very mixed feelings. The women's stories were fascinating but the author and her husband are horrid.

A little too apologetic for Grant's (few) failures with Reconstruction and Native American policies, but otherwise as good as advertised.

The project is to firmly root contemporary movements in the history, but it does get a little bit lost in the history in the process. Still an important addition.

These can be hit-or-miss but this one hit for me. Diagnosis of the downfalls of 20th and early 21st century workplaces matched my experience. Probably best read with Quiet, because this one overemphasizes extroversion.

A few good anecdotes, but it's about 300 pages too long and could've used an editor.

A few interesting anecdotes (from better sources), but casually veers into full-blown fascism without a shred of awareness.

Feels a little disjointed chapter-to-chapter, but otherwise great.

Great adventure story, engaging from the beginning, with just enough time spent on world-building.

Optimistic take on society after climate change's worst effects - more of this is needed

Good intro to the historical debate, but he doesn't make the case strongly enough in the back half

Beautifully written, jumps seamlessly between timelines that an inferior writer would fumble.

Fun book with work-as-prison themes, but the ending was a little disappointing

Must own for new homeowners

Great overview of 400 years of history, but starts to break down in the final chapters post-WW2.

Love Ehrenreich's writing style, but this one felt a little scattered. Still worth reading and it's pretty concise.

The ending was a little weak, but the buildup was great. Excellent ghost story overall.

Pretty nightmarish subject matter but it gets 4 starts for freaking me out in October (which was the goal) and for having two really complex and believable characters.

Very good, but seemed more heavily focused on TR's foreign policy achievements, at the expense of the domestic. Maybe this is an accurate picture, but I suspect it has more to do with the author's interests.

Very good all the way through. One underlying theme, that colonialism makes all forms of friendship impossible, resonates strongly.

Like most books of this kind, it's probably too long. Read the first two and last two chapters and you'll get it. I'll probably revisit the checklists I use for my work as a result of this book.

Excellent translation and footnotes as always from Robert Alter. I was surprised by how bland Proverbs is to an adult reader, but Job and Ecclesiastes/Qoholet are surprisingly complex and subversive.

The language was challenging and beautiful, but just didn't do much for me.