by Holdun | Jun 30, 2019 | Quarterly Book Review
One occasionally hears of stories that defy belief. This quarter’s review deals with such a story, and perhaps some of you who have not read the book, will think it’s pure fabrication. Well, if nothing else, it will inspire you to read the book and see for yourselves....
by Holdun | Mar 31, 2019 | Quarterly Book Review
In reviewing a book, I try not to show any bias, as I know that my readers’ views on a particular subject would not necessarily align with mine; plus my main objective is to convince you the reader, that what I am recommending is something that I think you will find...
by Holdun | Dec 31, 2018 | Quarterly Book Review
Many of our readers would be familiar with Barack Obama’s memoirs of growing up in Hawaii with his single mother. This quarterly’s book bears similarities with that wonderful book – a young boy growing up with a single mother, though in Africa, but...
by Holdun | Jun 30, 2018 | Quarterly Book Review
There are travel books, and then there are travel books! While Rory Stewart would take umbrage at someone calling him a “travel writer”, that is what he is, if understood as someone who writes about people as much as he writes about places. While not as seasoned a...
by Holdun | Mar 31, 2018 | Quarterly Book Review
Original Highways The title of the book is surely apt, for the earliest means of travel in this great land we call Canada, was the canoe, gliding across bodies of water, usually rivers, sometimes lakes, for purposes of commerce or war. The earliest explorers, starting...
by Holdun | Dec 31, 2017 | Quarterly Book Review
THE GREAT LEVELER Just when you thought you knew just about everything having to do with economic inequality, along comes a book whose title at first blush appears highly implausible, if not outrageous. The world could be considered to have enjoyed relatively even...
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