Reading Freely

This last week in 2014 I am spending with Lives of the Planets , a natural history of the solar system. It's proving to be the most enj...

Gray Mountain © 2014 John Grisham 384 pages  In late 2008,  New York’s financial sector and the economy built around it began...

To Be Read Takedown Challenge Antifragile , Nassim Nicholas Taleb (7/18/14) The Vikings , Robert Ferguson (6/7/14) Power, Inc ; Dav...

At the beginning of January, I decided to devote part of the year's reading to the Great War, in recognition of its 100-year anniv...

With the fourth Sunday of Advent behind us, I suppose it is  liturgically safe to bid one and all a MERRY CHRISTMAS.  I work all of...

Brian's Winter /  The River / Brian's Return © Gary Paulsen 1996, 1991, 1999             Hatchet told the story of a ...

Lord of the World © 1908 Robert Hugh Benson 352 pages At the turn of the 21 st century, war between the states of Europe and the E...