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Klingborg’s Thief of Souls is an impressive detective novel set in modern day China. Besides the setting in a small provincial town the size of a hamlet where ordinarily the most serious crime is the theft of chickens, in Thief of Souls Klingborg develops the…

Brian Klingborg’s Thief of Souls – A Review

March 25, 2021

I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. Jan-Phillip Sendker did not disappoint me. Whispering Shadows is a thriller – murder mystery. A thirty-year old, a Cathay Heavy Metals executive, Michael Owen winds up dead in Shenzhen, China, located across the…

A Novel of Old and New China – Review of Whispering Shadows

August 25, 2015

My most recent foray into science began with a series of WWII novels (Los Alamos, The Good German, and All the Light We Cannot See) that I read, and reviewed here. Through this, I forget now why, I was discovered Thomas Levenson’s Newton and the…

Issac Newton: A Scientist-Detective: Review of Newton and the Counterfeiter

August 22, 2015
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I found this book during a Friends of the Library Sale. Until now, I had never heard of Myra Roper, a British born Australian educator, and and an expert in China. More information can be found here. China-The Surprising Country is a memoir of her…

China-The Surprising Country by Myra Roper: A Review

May 4, 2015

A while back, I posted a review of When America First Met China, a history of Chinese-American-British trade relations up to where steamships enter the picture. In the book, the author, Eric Jay Dolin talks about the various continents that traders visited in search of…

GUEST COLUMN: Antarctica displays grandeur of the Creator – Rome News-Tribune: Columns

March 26, 2015

  ESS Headquarters, Elko, Nevada, US Renee stepped aside, letting a buxom blonde leave Brandon’s office. A coy slightly mocking face made Brandon smirk in return. “Can’t be that bad, can it?” She sat down on the brown leather sofa that was next to the window…

Child of Darkness: Chapter Five

March 15, 2015

  Well…it seems that the sea lions that at one time were  hunted into near extinction for their coats, valuable commodities that 19th century China traded or paid troves of silver may now be a victim of climate warming. My prior blog review of  When America First…

Sea Lions: After China, Comes Humanized Mother Nature

March 13, 2015
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Arguments about concentrating power and wealth in the rich, running unions out of existence,  the existence of plans to ruin the unions by business, crushing unions advanced in American Labor Unions in their continuing saga against repealing laws requiring non-union employees to pay union dues…

Labor’s Unrest: A Review of American Lightning

March 12, 2015
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  A few blog posts back I reviewed When America First Met China by Eric Jay Dolin. It is the account of how trade relations between China and U.S. began. Sail boats and clipper ships and later steam ships plied the oceans in search of…

China’s Old and New Meet: 21st Century Train and 18th and 19th Century Ships

March 7, 2015
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A few blog posts back, I reviewed When America First Met China by Eric Jay Dolin. In that review, I mentioned the import of sandalwood, furs, and opium by China in the 18th and 19th centuries and the scarcity issues surrounding the first two. Now…

Epilog or New Twist on an Old Tale?

March 1, 2015

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