Having posted this week about the whimsical and useless (Bada Being and Nothingness) and the wistful longing for far away locales (Armchair Travel: Scotland) I am seized today by a midweek urge to post something Practical and Useful for a change.
Today’s book selection bears little resemblance to Consumer Reports Buying Guides or other purchasing [...]

There was a time after I got laid off from Earthlink and before Joel got too sick to travel that we went on a kind of non-stop vacation. My current budget doesn’t permit me to travel very far at all these days, though I hope I will get the chance to roam [...]

If you are not a fan of HBO’s hit gangster drama The Sopranos, you’ll probably want to skip this one. Glen Gabbard, M.D. is a psychiatrist and huge Sopranos fan and has written a book about the psychoses of Tony and his gang. With chapter titles [...]

Panning books is definitely not the fun part of making this blog and much of the time I follow the old adage ‘if you can’t say something nice…’ But having taken the time to read through today’s titles and not having anything else I am yet ready to write about I [...]

I was a high school senior in 1981 when John Irving’s The Hotel New Hampshire was first published. I remember reading the first chapter or so while standing at a display in the entrance way of a bookstore at Lakeside Mall in Metairie Louisiana, sometime in the fall and putting [...]