Alvah's Books

Continuing with the leftist theme, August offers reviews about….Communism and the Russian Revolution. Just like the Spanish Civil War there’s a vast number of books on the subject that can make anyone’s head spin like Linda Blair’s in The Exorcist. This month, we’ll try to recommend the books we like best. Some have been around for a long time like Richard Pipes’  The Russian Revolution,  Theodore Draper’s The Roots of American Communism, and other’s like  Archie Brown’s The Rise and Fall of Communism published this summer.

This month will also include some new fiction reviews as well as the weekly bestseller lists and cookbook reviews.

So to kick off August and get you in the spirit,  here’s a little song:

. . . I hit the jackpot!

Via snailmail, I recieved

• Picking Bones from Ash by Marie Mutsuki Mockett

Special thanks goes to Marie, a fellow Tweeter, and to her publisher Graywolf Press. Can’t wait to get started

Via United Postal Service

• The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown
• Germany 1945: From War to Peace by Richard Bessel

Another special thanks to Van Luu at HarperCollins!