The Inferno by Dante Alighieri is one of those incredible books that seems to both be a pretty quick read simultaneously as being a tough slog. This daunting, fiery book…
I could read and write and talk about this book for a long time without really knowing whether I have understood what it is all about. This is often a…
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
My first exposure to this epic story was an October 12th, 1995, episode of the PBS kids show Wishbone, called Home Sweet Homer. My second exposure was watching this pretty…
The Odyssey, Homer
In Marilynne Robinson’s world of Gilead, this second book, “Home,” fits right into the center of the overarching narrative. Home is where ‘place’ and ‘meaning’ converge in thoughtful reflections and…
Home, Marilynne Robinson
This is the second book I’ve read by Franzen, (the Corrections being the other) and I have come away from this book with a similar feeling that I did previously:…
Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
This is the first time I'm posting about music on my site, but if you know me, you know how much I enjoy music and how large a part it…
Top 10 Albums – 2019
This was the last book that I finished reading in 2019, which, by some people's measure, would mean the last book that I read this century. This was also the…
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
'Crime Thriller' is not a genre I tend to read, but this is the second of Aymar's books that I have read, and his talent is on full display in…
The Unrepentant, E.A. Aymar
There was a man whose only possessions were a straw hat, a stubbly beard, a walking stick, and the clothes he wore. He came from dusty nowhere and was going…
Fool’s Gold, Joel Bacon
Published 15 years before his own cold death, Master and Man is a quintessential Tolstoyian story. He sets the scene of a good, flawed, man with a self-absorbed, money-grubbing master…