This is another of the really, really few fiction authors that I will spend my time on. The first book of his I read was Degree of Guilt. And honestly, it wasn’t like it came recommended or anything. Nope … back in the day, I was needing a book for a flight, and the cover […]
I love vacations. It means I can, hopefully, create for myself a lot of free time to read and read and read. I love active vacations, but I need them to also include some simple chill-out time. Time to relax and get sucked into something fun. And since I have all but sworn off reading […]
I know the exact moment when it happened. The specific moment in my life when my belief in religion and god and all that came to a stark and sudden end and it was never to come back. I admit that my questioning of religion and whatnot had been happening prior to this moment, and […]
I once read an article or watched a movie in which someone said something to the effect of, “I don’t have time for fiction, history is thrilling enough.” Now, I am not going to be so bold as that, but I have found that over the last few years I am more and more left […]
First the goddess divine handed me a book called “Cocaine.” I thought maybe she was giving me a hint. Was I supposed to start a coca cartel? I read the unabridged history of the famed drug, and I was compelled. Here was a book that was nonfiction but read like fiction. Good page-turner, nice twists […]
I’ve always been a big Spike Jonze fan. He’s done some great movies, and I think he and Michel Gondry are true visionaries with an ability to tell a unique story when given the proper work. Jonze is a skater boy who ended up becoming quite the film buff. He directed Adaptation, Being John Malkovich […]
Long flights and vacations are great for reading books, or listening to them, depending on how you travel. After finishing the Jacobs book, I dove right in and conquered another in no time. These historical narrative nonfiction books are just cool. I really like reading them. They are a growing form of nonfiction where instead […]
Reading a book about a guy who decides to live a — literally — biblical life for one year doesn’t exactly sound like the kind of reading material one would think I would get into. But when this book is written by AJ Jacobs, you can count me in. You see, Jacobs got me hooked […]
When I first read The Perfect Storm I was stunned. Floored into reading this tragic true life story of some fisherman from Massachusetts who were caught in one of the freakiest natural events ever. Three massive storms all colliding at once off the Atlantic Coast and the ship, The Andrea Gail, simply disappeared. All the crew were […]