In a bit of a book desert at the moment. A combination of things. Travel, workload, future travel, and future workload, distraction, laziness, and perhaps a bit of bad luck, but this doesn’t mean I haven’t found some gems like …
Read: Birds and More Birds
One of the best things about being interested in birds is that there is plenty of literature revolving around the subject matter. Each year, we are presented with book after book regarding the avian world, some from the legends of …
Read: Owls of the Eastern Ice
First off, I love owls, so this book had my name all over it. I found this book on someone’s chair at a local hot spring. Being the nosy guy I am, I leaned over when they weren’t looking and …
Read: The Way Out
Get it, read it. I love Craig Childs. I don’t mean I love him, love him. Never met the man, but his books live on my “all-time” list. House of Rain, Secret Knowledge of Water, and now The Way Out, …
Read: Before You Jump In
Anyone wanting to work in journalism or the art world might want to have a look at a few of these books. Those industries are a total mess. I have experience in the journalism world, and have come close enough …
Read: The Fort Bragg Cartel
It was homecoming weekend, 1989. My friends and I had a wonderful idea. Let’s sneak a few bottles of tequila into the dorm, fire up the blender, then get blindingly, commode-hugging drunk for no reason at all. This was a …
Read: June Books
Full disclosure. I’ve only read two of these three, but I did leave out a book I just finished. So, we are even. I don’t have a lot of time here, but I wanted to share some recent titles. I’ve …
Read: May Books, 2023
It’s been a slow month for turning the page. So much on my plate, both official and self-inflicted. Still struggling to make sense of my future newsletter. I know what I THINK I want to do, but do I have …
Read: Mid-April Books
It’s been a slow month for reading. I typically don’t read much when I’m traveling for work, but that’s okay. I get back to it when I return home and set that alarm. Some of these books were recommendations, and …
Read: Late February Books, 2025
I first learned of Christopher Isherwood based on his reporting from Germany during the rise of the Nazi party. His name bounced around in my head over the past few years until I found this book in the free library …
Read: Early February Books, 2025
Lauren Groff’s “Matrix“ brings a certain darkness that only comes from the harshness of life in England of the 1100s. Religion, the crown, famine, illness, and a million other ways to suffer. But this book flirts with all sorts of …