Penguin Power: Dodger Blue, Hollywood Lights, and My One-In-a-Million Big League Journey by Ron Cey, with Ken Gurnick I admit… Read more Penguin Power
Category: Book Diary
I read a lot. Mostly fiction. I love literature. I try to read the best. Classics more than popular bestsellers. I like the way one novel will lead me to the next, how, (in the way of all great art) novels will reference other novels, or at least make me think of others. Since July 2020 I’ve made it a practice to write a post about every book I read. If you’d like to see if I’ve read a particular book, click on the Reading List for an alphabetical list by author’s last name.
The Pat Hobby Stories
The Pat Hobby Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald I thought I had read all of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I had… Read more The Pat Hobby Stories
The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Hemingway’s first novel, The Sun Also Rises, published in 1926, may be his… Read more The Sun Also Rises
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage When I retired at the end of June, my… Read more A History of the World in 6 Glasses
The Adventures of Augie March
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow After reading Henderson the Rain King and liking it, I decided I… Read more The Adventures of Augie March
Fear and Trembling
Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard Jim and I took a quick trip to San Francisco a few weeks ago… Read more Fear and Trembling
Truth Demands
Truth Demands: A Memoir of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice by Abby Reyes In 1999, Ms.… Read more Truth Demands
Henderson the Rain King
Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow I remember starting to read this book back in my teens or early… Read more Henderson the Rain King
Trapped!
Trapped! The story of Floyd Collins by Robert K. Murray and Roger W. Brucker Jim and I spent a week… Read more Trapped!
The Noise of Time
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes Jim and I spent a week in New York last month. We stayed… Read more The Noise of Time