If you love to fish go buy this book. If you love to fly fish, well, stop what you are doing and RUN to buy this book. Thomas McGuane’s “The Longest Silence,” is a book about fishing but it’s also …
Read: Celine
Just once I’d like to see a book end in disaster. After having just finished “Celine,” by Peter Heller, a book I enjoyed, I realized it was time for me to return to nonfiction. This book marked my third novel …
Read: Two Nights in Lisbon
Someone asked if I had allowed my morning reading ritual to slip. It’s been a long stretch since I’ve posted about my current read. But no, rest assured, the books are still being consumed. However, I’ve been reading a few …
Read: Replenish
Pretty sure that Sandra Postel lives less than an hour from where I’m sitting right now. Makes me want to ask for an interview when I return in the fall. Her book Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity …
Read: Atlas of a Lost World
Some people dream of meeting famous actors or musicians. I dream of meeting Craig Childs. “Hey Milnor, Salma Hayek just joined as expedition leader and we want you to come too.” Well, that’s the dream anyway. My advice is to …
Read: Tracers in the Dark
According to the author, most of the agents and prosecutors involved in the hunt for crypto kings have since left their agencies and taken jobs in the cryptocurrency industry. I’m not sure what else I can say about this story. …
Read: Grail Bird
Would you give up everything to search for a bird thought to be long extinct? I might. It does sound rather appealing and anything is better than Excel spreadsheets. But what if the bird isn’t quite extinct? I’d still go. …
Read: The 37th Parallel
I saw a UFO once. US281, just south of Johnson City, Texas. Had to be late 1980s. Middle of the night, piloting my old Landcruiser, creeping along at 50mph trying to save gas. Looked out the driver’s side window and …
Read: The Fifth Act
Elliot Ackerman is effortless, and his latest offering “The Fifth Act: America’s End in Afghanistan” proves this once again. We live in a country that loves revisionist history, and we live in an era when everyone seems to just invent …
Read: Lost in the Valley of Death
This book is a cautionary tale and one that speaks to so many ills of modern culture and society. Two pages into the prologue I already had a dislike of the main character, but I finished the book regardless. Anyone …
Read: Around the World in 80 Birds
Nature never disappoints. Birds have generated more research and more art than any other group of animals in history, and thanks to Mike Unwin and Ryuto Miyake and their “Around the World in 80 Birds,” we have a beautifully illustrated, …
Read: For All the Tea in China
Good grief England, jellied eels and now this? Grifters! I knew it, and I knew we fled as soon as we could. But your epic theft, detailed beautifully in the Sarah Rose publication“For All the Tea in China: How England …