I hate this book. I set it down a dozen times while reading. I’m an American male, you see, who was hit by a car moving 65 mph while I finished a training ride for a bicycle race. Life support pumped air to my lungs for a week, and I lay comatose for five. […]
TBI Tuesday – Book Review – Still Alice, Lisa Genova Read Post »
Two million copies! Celebration of Discipline has taken up lonely space on my bookshelves for some twenty-five years now, proving my lack of discipline. Or at least my skill in building a world-class to-be-read library. But I came across the special anniversary edition, published in 2018, and had to have it. After all, the world
Celebration of Discipline, R. Foster, Review Read Post »
Way back when America was great and I heated my home with a wood-fired stove, I attended a First Baptist Church in the middle of town. This was in the South, of course, and was of the Southern Baptist ilk, steeple and all. It was a first for me, but my wife was Baptist through
Me? I’m sitting in line wondering what kind of largess you have when your bank wants you to pick up your check at the bleedin’ embassy?
Book Review: Shosha by Issac Bashevis Singer Read Post »
I had the same weird and uncomfortable feeling reading Geek Love as I did watching David Lynch’s Eraser Head: nothing really frightening, but just plain weird.
Book Review: Geek Love, Katherine Dunn Read Post »