Danny's Book Reviews

Reviewing books online since 1992, covering everything except horror fiction and theology.

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

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Bike City Amsterdam: How Amsterdam Became the Cycling Capital of the World https://t.co/GpAfRL1WHh (my review) - "the interaction of the city's geography, planning and politics with its cycling culture, people, and infrastructure"

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The History of Wales in Twelve Poems - short historical essays accompanied by poems https://t.co/nGXwjoLGQi (my review)

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Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War https://t.co/YC63NSvWxm (my review) - "a long and involved, but rewarding, account of one of the most traumatic periods in European history"

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Oral history integrated into a compelling narrative - my review of David Van Reybrouck's _Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World_ https://t.co/48OATQukA3

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_The Year of the Hare_ - a journalist takes a hare on a light-hearted romp through rural Finland https://t.co/hYl6ykz7vy (my review)

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A Millennium of Amsterdam: Spatial History of a Marvellous City https://t.co/MhWUa1dTTV (my review)

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When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be (Martin Williams) - my review https://t.co/duEHgXCcY4 (@princetonupress.bsky.social 2021)

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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. https://t.co/xawLtvMf32

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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 https://t.co/4OMLji1Ag6 (my review)

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Theorems of the 21st Century https://t.co/eVdIJtpE2J (my review) - elementary explanations of a hundred mathematical results

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Happy Stories, Mostly https://t.co/ZhZWRtdqmS short stories about gay students from Batak Christian backgrounds, and their mothers

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Korea: A New History of South and North - from political divergence to possible futures https://t.co/zbqLuCyVHr (my review)

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my review of _Traffication: How Cars Destroy Nature and What We Can Do About It_ https://t.co/P28vkUSYfb "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"

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"centres Copenhagen's experience but offers fairly general advice on urban cycling, drawing on examples from around the world" https://t.co/IZEE53r43w

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"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." https://t.co/Q1QtsGq4DU

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"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 https://t.co/dYfNsyMDCi

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Wendy Doniger's _The Hindus: An Alternative History_ and Fred W. Clothey's _Religion in India: A Historical Introduction_ - a review https://t.co/G4YeamKFAS

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"a character study, but one with an involving geographical and social setting and with good pacing and effective integration of its sub-stories" https://t.co/gMUudMmheu

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"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" https://t.co/M0h4IydZun