Year: 2007

Recently, I had one of those panic attacks voracious readers get: I was about to run out of reading material with a couple of hours yet to go in my trip. That&#...

I have always enjoyed the acting of Gene Wilder. Forget Johnny Depp, Wilder is Willy Wonka to me. Movies like Blazing Saddles and Stir Crazy still make me laugh...

I don’t normally like to read broad histories, but H.W. Crocker’s Don’t Tread on Me: A 400-Year History of America at War intrigued me. Crocke...

There are not a lot of authors whose new books I automatically seek to read, but I have enjoyed Howard Norman’s work enough that I think he might soon get...

My rather unique circumstances have made it so that I am too stressed/busy to write anything of real substance but I have enough free time to read. As a result ...

Kevin Wignall had an interesting post awhile back on the thriller writer John Connolly’s The Book of Lost Things. Mr. Wignall was discussing his reaction ...