What book reviewers are saying this week
WHAT REVIEWERS ARE SAYING...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE: The Making of an Icon
By Mark Bostridge / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
鈥淢ark Bostridge ... has produced ... a dense and compelling biography of a woman who is rightly venerated but often too simplistically understood.鈥� 鈥� ALEXANDRA MULLEN, The Wall Street Journal
HALLELUJAH JUNCTION: Composing an American Life
By John Adams / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
鈥淭his book, Adams鈥檚 first (and, let鈥檚 hope, not his last), is a cogent account of its author鈥檚 escape from the world of 颅audience-alienating 鈥榩rocess鈥� music absorbed with its own making and his arrival at a place where intellectual adventurism and robust emotion coexist 鈥� a pilgrimage from the Land Without Feelings to Hallelujah Junction.鈥濃�� DAVID HAJDU, The New York Times
TITANTIC鈥橲 LAST SECRETS: The Further Adventures of Shadow Divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler
By Brad Matsen / Twelve
鈥淲ho鈥檇 have thought a tale of a debate over good versus poor naval design could be so compellingly told?鈥�
鈥� REBECCA JONES, Rocky Mountain News
