MLK Day: A Confession and Some Links to Further Reading
First, the confession. In the flush of hoping to restart the blog last year, as opposed to this year, I wrote the following: For the record, I plan to read wha...
Month: January 2022
Graphic Novels I Read in 2021: Santa Claus, Norse Myths, the Palestinian Conflict, an Indian Robin Hood & More
I am not a big reader of graphic novels but I do read half a dozen or so each year. Rather than review each one individually, because I don’t have a lot ...
My Top Five 2021 Nonfiction Reads
More than half of the books I read in 2021 appear to be nonfiction (tracking and math are not precise) which kind of surprised me. But I did have a goal of rea...
Interlibrary Loan by Gene Wolfe
Having realized that the book I bought was the second book in a series, I finished A Borrowed Man and started back up with Interlibrary Loan. Hundreds of years ...
Library Trip: Short Books to Read in 2022
As I have probably mentioned before, despite having hundreds of books to read at home I have been unable to get out of the habit of going to the library and bri...
Patrick Barron and The Camera’s Eye
I am hoping to write soon about the Michigan Football season this year and my complicated relationship to the program but wanted to give you some emotional back...