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

Joined March 2010
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Bike City Amsterdam: How Amsterdam Became the Cycling Capital of the World dannyreviews.com/h/Bike_City… (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 dannyreviews.com/h/History_W… (my review)
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Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War dannyreviews.com/h/Europes_T… (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_ dannyreviews.com/h/Revolusi.…
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_The Year of the Hare_ - a journalist takes a hare on a light-hearted romp through rural Finland dannyreviews.com/h/Year_Hare… (my review)
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A Millennium of Amsterdam: Spatial History of a Marvellous City dannyreviews.com/h/Millenniu… (my review)
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When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be (Martin Williams) - my review dannyreviews.com/h/Sahara_Gr… (@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. dannyreviews.com/h/Wifes_Tal…
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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 dannyreviews.com/h/Book_Unti… (my review)
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Theorems of the 21st Century dannyreviews.com/h/Theorems_… (my review) - elementary explanations of a hundred mathematical results
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Happy Stories, Mostly dannyreviews.com/h/Happy_Sto… 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 dannyreviews.com/h/Korea_New… (my review)
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my review of _Traffication: How Cars Destroy Nature and What We Can Do About It_ dannyreviews.com/h/Trafficat… "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" dannyreviews.com/h/Copenhage…
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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." dannyreviews.com/h/France_Wo…
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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 dannyreviews.com/h/Lasts_For…
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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 dannyreviews.com/h/Hindus_Re…
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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" dannyreviews.com/h/Pastor.ht…
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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" dannyreviews.com/h/Going_Chu…
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