by Donna | Oct 12, 2011 | Angry, Other
Rating: Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way, by Jon Krakauer. Anchor (2011) 96 pages. Vindication! I read Three Cups of Tea a couple of years ago, well before the scandal broke (via the April 17 episode of 60 Minutes),...
by Donna | Aug 13, 2009 | Nonfiction, Tragedies/Massacres
Rating: Under the Banner of Heaven, by Jon Krakauer. Doubleday (2003), 372 pages. One of the exceptional things about Krakauer’s writing is his talent for branching off into ten different fascinating offshoots of his topic, while building suspense by...