Nonfiction
Eva Reads About Andrew Jackson
And finally it came time to read about Andrew Jackson. I knew little about Jackson, and most of what I did know stemmed from a few lines of a song my dad used to randomly burst out singing: WELL…
Eva Reads About John Quincy Adams
And today we have JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. John Quincy Adams Harlow Giles Unger No matter how lousy JQA may have been as a president, I really, REALLY found myself liking him as a person, and in his other official capacities…
Eva Reads About James Monroe
I’m back, finally, with more PRESIDENTIAL UPDATES. Today: James Monroe: A Life Tim McGrath I really enjoyed this one. It took me a while to access the audio, hence the delay in continuing this series, but this was a great…
Eva Reads About James Madison
I only read one book about James Madison. There were a few to choose from, but I opted for the longest one I could find. The Three Lives of James Madison Noah Feldman It took me a really, really long…
Eva Reads About Thomas Jefferson
After the relative dearth of available books about John Adams, it was fun to have more options again with Thomas Jefferson. I already mentioned Friends Divided in my last post about John Adams, so I won’t repeat that one here.…
Eva’s Year in Books 2019: Installment Four
This got delayed by lots of things! But, three months later (eeee), here is the next installment of my 2019 sum-up! Installment Four will cover my favourite non-fiction reads (that I haven’t already mentioned in Installment One and Two) as…
Eva’s Year in Books 2019: Installment Two
This second installment of my 2019 reading will cover what my over-the-phone reading buddy and I got through together as well as some graphic novel highlights. Books Jen and I Read My friend Jen and I read to each other…
Eva’s Year in Books 2019: Installment One
Probably it is pretty safe to say I went Absolutely Bonkers on my reading this year. My Goodreads challenge was 200 books, and I breezed past that quite calmly several months back, finishing with 310 books read. There are two…
Eva Reads About George Washington
Some time ago (I don’t want to think about how long ago, exactly) a friend of mine mentioned a very ambitious but intriguing idea she had: what if she read a biography about each United States president? My curiosity was…
‘The Boys in the Boat’, in Which Eva Is a Sentimental Moron and Spams You With Lots of Pictures
I had an unusual upbringing. Sports were of so little importance to my family that I, at 34, still do not know even the most rudimentary rules to any sportsball games (and don’t bother trying to educate me, because I…