This book is, and should continue to be required reading for every generation of people. I think it might be controversial to some today, but that is pretty much the…
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…
Inferno, Dante Alighieri
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 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
This book sat on my shelves for a longtime before it made its way into my hands. To describe this book in one word it would be, "Charming." It has…
I, Claudius, Robert Graves
A book that is a poem with a preface and notes on the poem. Thoroughly spastic, completely enjoyable.Quotes I enjoyed:"Let me close this important note with a rather anti-Darwinian aphorism: The…