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 […]
It was somewhere around 8 or 9 years ago that I randomly needed a book to read at an airport and picked up Degree of Guilt by Richard North Patterson. A legal drama about a TV news reporter that has been raped, it was a novel that I found gripping and written with a voice […]
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 […]