Aug 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Wrecking Crew! (DVD) If you know the recordings of Elvis, The Righteous Brothers, Frank Sinatra, Sam Cooke, The Byrds, Ricky Nelson, The Beach Boys, Nat King Cole, The Monkees, Sonny & Cher, or The Mamas & the Papas, then you know The Wrecking Crew. The...
Jun 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames By: Kai Bird The Good Spy was so good that I read it twice. Actually, I listened to it once as an audio book and read the print book, but that’s beside the point. It’s a fascinating biography of a man who, as...
May 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies By: Alastair Bonnett [blockquote text=’“The most fascinating places are often also the most disturbing, entrapping, and appalling. They are also often temporary. In ten years’ time most...
Apr 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Magnificent Ambersons By: Booth Tarkington I hadn’t heard of Booth Tarkington until I moved to this area, but now I run across his name on a daily basis, so I thought I’d better read his best-known work, The Magnificent Ambersons. It’s now considered...
Feb 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Book of William By Paul Collins Shakespeare’s First Folio: no printed book has had each copy so obsessively cataloged, studied, and coveted. Scholars study and analyze past owners’ doodles in the margins, and some specialize in examining the stress on the type to...
