The Darwin Conspiracy

John Darnton Paperback, $14.00 Anchor September 2006 320 pages Loved it, loved it, loved it.  This book is a prime example of historical mystery.  Told from three perspectives, it is–in alternating chapters–the modern-day story of Hugh Kellem, an antrhopology grad student; the young Charles Darwin; and Charles’s daughter Lizzie.  Hugh and Charles’s stories are third-person, [...]

Book Brahmin

Shelf Awareness, a daily e-newsletter for the publishing industry, has a set of questions that they ask of a different author each week (a lá James Lipton’s Bernard Piovot questionnaire).  Today I thought it would be fun to examine the questions myself.  Here we go! On my nightstand right now: My Kindle (so, theoretically, every [...]