B Reviews / Book Reviews20th century / Japanese / non-fiction / Photographer / Vietnam / War / Military2 Comments
On The Frontlines of the Television War is the story of Yasutsune “Tony” Hirashiki’s ten years in Vietnam—beginning when he arrived in 1966 as a young freelancer with a 16mm camera but without a job or the slightest grasp of English and ending in the hectic fall of Saigon in ... more >
Publishing Newsaudiobooks / Barnes & Noble / epistolary / Nook / online security / privacy / protest reading / Vietnam3 Comments
B&N Launches Nook Audiobook Apps for iPhone, iPad – Barnes & Noble is getting back into the digital audiobook business, with a selection of 60,000 audiobooks. According to Nate Hoffelder, you can’t sort offerings by price or play other audiobooks in the app, but clearly B&N is hoping to cash in ... more >
A- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Recommended Readsangels / dragons / Fantasy / immortal / Paris / Recommended Read / Vietnam6 Comments
Janine: Aliette de Bodard’s new fantasy novel, The House of Shattered Wings, takes place in an alternate late twentieth century Paris, a city peopled not just by humans but also by fallen angels cast out of Heaven by the Christian God for reasons they themselves do not recall. The Fallen ... more >
B ReviewsContemporary / older heroine and hero / Vietnam / War / Military24 Comments
Vietnam took her first love away from her. Now it may take her next love, too. After her husband dies, Gillian Warner realizes how many sorrows she carries inside her, including unresolved grief over her first love, who died in Vietnam decades earlier. Haunted by his death in combat and ... more >