Danny's Book Reviews

Not posting here any more. You can find my reviews on M, B, or F.

Bike City Amsterdam: How Amsterdam Became the Cycling Capital of the World dannyreviews.com/h/Bike_City_Am… (my review) - "the interaction of the city's geography, planning and politics with its cycling culture, people, and infrastructure"

The History of Wales in Twelve Poems - short historical essays accompanied by poems dannyreviews.com/h/History_Wale… (my review)

Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War dannyreviews.com/h/Europes_Trag… (my review) - "a long and involved, but rewarding, account of one of the most traumatic periods in European history"

Oral history integrated into a compelling narrative - my review of David Van Reybrouck's _Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World_ dannyreviews.com/h/Revolusi.html

_The Year of the Hare_ - a journalist takes a hare on a light-hearted romp through rural Finland dannyreviews.com/h/Year_Hare.ht… (my review)

A Millennium of Amsterdam: Spatial History of a Marvellous City dannyreviews.com/h/Millennium_A… (my review)

When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be (Martin Williams) - my review dannyreviews.com/h/Sahara_Green… (@princetonupress.bsky.social 2021)

Edemariam's _The Wife's Tale_ a biography of the author's grandmother, who was born around 1916 in Gondar, Ethiopia, was married at age eight to a high-ranking clergyman, and lived for nearly a century, through huge political upheavals and social change. dannyreviews.com/h/Wifes_Tale.h…

a metafictional circling around an imagined meeting in 1926 between two pioneering Armenian feminist writers, Shushank Kurghinian and Zabel Yesayan, inside a frame involving the author and a friend researching their lives dannyreviews.com/h/Book_Untitle… (my review)

Theorems of the 21st Century dannyreviews.com/h/Theorems_21s… (my review) - elementary explanations of a hundred mathematical results

Happy Stories, Mostly dannyreviews.com/h/Happy_Storie… short stories about gay students from Batak Christian backgrounds, and their mothers

Korea: A New History of South and North - from political divergence to possible futures dannyreviews.com/h/Korea_New_Hi… (my review)

my review of _Traffication: How Cars Destroy Nature and What We Can Do About It_ dannyreviews.com/h/Traffication… "ecologist Paul Donald looks at noise, air and light pollution among other harms, and at the effects on populations and species and ecosystems, not just on individual animals"

"centres Copenhagen's experience but offers fairly general advice on urban cycling, drawing on examples from around the world" dannyreviews.com/h/Copenhageniz…

"With some 130 short essays treating quite narrow topics, _France in the World_ offers a 'pointillist' rendering of French history, with a focus on global connections." dannyreviews.com/h/France_World…

"A post-apocalypse novel told from the point of view of one of the zombies, _It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over_ begins with the heroine losing one of her arms and stuffing a zombie crow into her chest." @FitzcarraldoEds dannyreviews.com/h/Lasts_Foreve…

Wendy Doniger's _The Hindus: An Alternative History_ and Fred W. Clothey's _Religion in India: A Historical Introduction_ - a review dannyreviews.com/h/Hindus_Relig…

"a character study, but one with an involving geographical and social setting and with good pacing and effective integration of its sub-stories" dannyreviews.com/h/Pastor.html

"a fairly comprehensive survey of church-going in medieval England -- who was involved, what they did and when, and the broader context, social, institutional, architectural and liturgical" dannyreviews.com/h/Going_Church…