Since March 2012, the Matthew Gordon Books blog has been your source of book reviews, long and short, on every imaginable author, genre and movement, in both fiction and non-fiction. The one question that defines the reviewing process is: What made this author tick? Why did this author write this book, in this way, at this time, instead of something else?

The blog resides at http://matthewgordonbooks.blogspot.com/

Recent reviews include:

• Academic

  • The Holy Roman Empire: A Short History by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger

  • Invented Knowledge by Ronald H. Fritze

  • The War That Ended Peace by Margaret Macmillan

• Literary fiction

  • The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham

  • This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Popular fiction

  • American Gods by Neil Gaiman

  • Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto