Tag: Erik Larson
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BR295) “In the Garden of Beasts” Book Review
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson. 4/5 rating. 365 pages. Book #11 of 2023. Read April 24, 2023. This book follows William Dodd, America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany in the 1930s. It shows the much too accurate, but somewhat eerie, idea that history…
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BR233) “Isaac’s Storm” Book Review
Isaac’s Storm: A Man, A Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson. 3/5 rating. 273 pages. Book #69 of 2021. Read December 30, 2021. This is a recounting of the 1900 hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas and (at least when it was written) was the most deadly hurricane on record. Isaac Cline,…
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BR106) Dead Wake Book Review
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson. 4/5 rating. Book #31 of 2020. Read May 17, 2020. This is the true story of the Lusitania’s last voyage. Erik uses accounts of both passengers of the Lusitania and U-20, the U-Boat that would eventually sink the elegant ocean-liner, to recount the last…
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BR99) “Thunderstruck” Book Review
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson. 3/5 rating. Book #24 of 2020. Read April 24, 2020. This book was decently interesting, but it read more like the non-fiction book that it is as opposed to a novel like “The Devil in the White City” (a 5/5 rated, nonfiction book also by Erik). This book tells the true…