Had to take a quick 5-day hiatus from the summer of klosterman to read Harlan Coben’s new book. My mom brought it with her when she visited two weeks ago and his stuff is such a fast, engaging read that I had to plow through it quickly. Coben is one of those very few fiction […]
My summer of Klosterman continues. Or maybe it’s my spring of Klosterman. Oh, hell, who gives a crap. Either way, I polished off another of his books last week, this time his second book, “Killing Yourself to Live.” The book is pretty much his recounting a road trip he took across the country. Not to […]
One of the benefits of being mauled financially by the IRS is it gives you tons of opportunities to do free things, like read books. And I’m on a tear this last month. My most recent conquest, the planet Earth. Well, at least, Earth as explained by the staff of The Daily Show. If you’re […]
Now this is some writing I can get behind. I found Chuck Klosterman through listening to the BS Report. Simmons had him on several years ago to talk about sports and pop culture and I latched onto him quickly as someone I’d love to have a conversation with about just about everything but someone I […]
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 […]
As much as I try to deny it, I guess I am part of the zombie-loving society as well. Can’t get enough of it. At least True Blood is my only foray into the vampirefest overrunning America (fuck that abstinence-spewing Twilight bullshit). Several years ago a video game company sent me the Zombie Survival Guide […]
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 […]
My holiday tradition continued this past year, when the wife and I drove from DC to Kentucky for the holidays. To pass the long hours of driving through the Disneyland of Depression that we commonly know as West Virginia, we listened to a book on tape. We had lots of options this time around, but […]
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 […]