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Sunday Reviews

Written on: April 5th, 2010 in Blog Posts

Here are some of the books featured in the most recent New York Times Sunday Book Reviews. Click on the titles to see holdings in the Delaware Library Catalog, learn more about the books, or place a hold.

• Karl Marlantes Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War has been 30 years in the writing, according to the publisher, and the author is a highly decorated veteran: “Chapter after chapter, battle after battle, Marlantes pushes you through what may be one of the most profound and devastating novels ever to come out of Vietnam — or any war. It’s not a book so much as a deployment, and you will not return unaltered.”
• Christianity: the First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch is a “comprehensive and surprisingly accessible” history of the faith from its remote pre-Christian roots in ancient antiquity to the current date. MacCulloch won the National Book Critic’s Circle award for non-fiction this year for this book.
• James Hynes newest novel, Next, spans 8 hours in the life of its protagonist while he flies from Ann Arbor to Austin to interview for a life-changing job.
• Something Red by Jennifer Gilmore is a story of “lost ideals and lingering illusions” within three generations of immigrants and idealists.
• Peter Bognanni’s House of Tomorrow “unexpectedly pits the teaching of R. Buckminster Fuller, architect, philosopher and futurist, against the misanthropy of punk.”