My Bookshelf
Book Reviews! I'm not a fan of amazon / goodreads, so I made my own. I mostly read history, classics, and outdoor lit, and even within those genres my interests are narrow. Feel free to take a look and see if we've read the same book!
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Anna Karenina
Tolstoy's novel of adultery, faith, and a man learning to mow hay - and my favourite book.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Ninety pages on a life reconsidered far too late.
Musashi
A serialized epic on the making of the sword saint, from the field at Sekigahara to Ganryu Island.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Twelve hundred pages on Nazi Germany from a correspondent who stood there and watched it happen.
A Farewell to Arms
Love and the Italian front in Hemingway's flattest, hardest prose.
Trout Bum
The book that made fly fishing writing funny, and made living cheap on purpose sound like a plan.
The Iliad
Rage, horses, and the plain of Troy, in Fagles's muscular English.
Henry V
Dan Jones on England's warrior king, from Shrewsbury to Agincourt to the treaty at Troyes.
The Plantagenets
Two centuries of the dynasty that made England, from Henry II to the fall of Richard II.
The Landmark Herodotus
The Histories with maps on every spread and appendices in the back - the apparatus that makes Herodotus navigable.
Gates of Fire
Thermopylae from inside the Spartan line, narrated by the only man left to tell it.
The Oresteia
Three plays in which blood vengeance gives way, barely, to the rule of law.
The Burgundians
A thousand years of the vanished empire wedged between France and Germany.
The Kingdom in the Sun
Norman Sicily at its height - the second half of Norwich's history of the Hauteville kingdom.
Idaho Ruffed Grouse Hunting
Stories and musings that give a very relatable and yet exciting glimp into what drives our relentless pursuit of the king of upland birds, the Ruffed Grouse.
Idaho Loners
A dozen short biographies on the lives and philosophies of solitude seeking Idahoans from the past 150 years.
A Chinaman's Chance
Dive into the experiences of Chinese immigrants to the Boise Basin area of Idaho during the height of its mining boom - from 1864 to 1900.
Training the Versatile Hunting Dog
Step by step instructions that guide the new puppy owner how to make the most of their hunting dog in the field and stream.