I enjoy Bill Maher’s weekly show, and while I don’t always catch every episode, I follow along with the show and catch clips here and there and watch the interviews if there are particularly interesting people I want to hear from or political events that I want to hear his thoughts on. I got a […]
After thoroughly enjoying James Swanson’s first book about Abraham Lincoln’s assassination and the hunt for Booth (Manhunt), I was intrigued when I heard that there was a sequel I figured I needed to check it out. Bloody Crimes is focused on two main arcs: Lincoln’s funeral pageant, and the hunt for Jefferson Davis, president of […]
On my Hawaiian vacation, I was able to bang through one more book, a fantastic book called The Big Burn. I read one of Timothy Egan’s previous nonfiction title, The Worst Hard Time, which was about as depressing as it could get in terms of fully describing the hell a group of over a large […]
While I do allow myself the occasional dabble into the fiction realm, everyone by now knows my love for reading nonfiction, especially stuff that relates to food and to specific moments throughout history and their impact on the greater world or society as a whole. After reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma last year, I knew I […]
My trip to Hawaii provided me the chance to read a bunch of books in between UK basketball, golf, snorkeling and lots and lots of food. I’ve always been a David Sedaris fan, so when I heard he was coming out with a rather bizarre book of fables involving animals, I said what the hell […]
Just because I’ve haven’t posted any book reviews lately doesn’t mean I’ve given up the written word. Far from it. I just took the summer months to crush through a whole bunch of books from the fiction writers I love, and since those don’t have the same umph as the nonfiction I spend a majority […]
I’m probably doing something really stupid, but I gotta give it a try. With the new iPhone, one of the apps that it offers for free is the iBooks app, which is mainly for reading books on an iPad. When the wife got an iPad, to test the iBooks app she bought the latest book […]
I’ll apologize right off for the rambling/incoherent nature of this post. It’s going to serve double-duty. Because in the span of a week I got to educate myself on the war in Afghanistan in two ways, both profound in their own right. It started with reading Sebastian Junger’s new book, War. Those who know my […]
Keeping up with my tradition of reading nonfiction books about strange, singular food topics, my mother gave me The Foie Gras Wars as a gift, and so of course I had to read it. It’s probably the most open and least aggressive food book I have read in terms of trying to drive a message […]
Better than just about any documentary on how your food is prepared and where it comes from, The Omnivore’s Dilemma kills it in the first third of the book, giving detailed accounts to the uses and ubiquitousness of America’s greatest food source, corn. I am a foodie and I care a lot about where my […]