Better than Star Wars
It’s been a while, but I’ve been looking for good pulp fiction lately. And by “good,” I mean, page turners that keep you going with an adventurous story, but aren’t… Read more »
Category: Books
Thursday Random
Another good morning — maybe even a little chilly, if you think about where we’ve been over the past few weeks. It was 69 degrees Fahrenheit when I set out… Read more »
A Safer Place
“Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child.” Folk Wisdom, origin unknown I’m a big fan of Malcom Gladwell. I’ve also read the book The Coddling… Read more »
Coming back to Joseph Mitchell
I wrote nearly two years ago about discovering Joseph Mitchell’s work through the collection, Up in the Old Hotel. This is a book for which I could see breaking my… Read more »
Enough Already
Spoiler alert: If you haven’t seen the classic movie, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and if you don’t want to know what happens in the end, go watch it… Read more »
Good Words
I’ve never been one to break down the deep meaning of classic written works. I’m simply a, “I like what I see” kind of guy. So my tastes in writers… Read more »
Never Like the Real Thing.
If you’ve read here over time, you’ll know that I always have a few books going at any given moment. I was quite excited to be reading Steinbeck again, but… Read more »
Oh well, it can’t be helped…
I’ve been making a run at the library lately. Picked up an Agatha Christie novel (A Caribbean Mystery with Miss Marple) a couple of weeks ago on a whim. Took… Read more »
Better than the Movie
You’ve probably heard someone say “the book was better than the movie” before. You rarely hear it the other way around (although I know there are examples). Maybe it’s because… Read more »
I Finished a Book
Sure, it might not seem like much, but if I had a quarter for every partially-read book in my library (and completely unread book I scored cheap (or free) on… Read more »