A Short History of the American Stomach
I don’t have regular recurring features tied to specific days of the week, like the very popular Wordless Wednesday that many of my blog friends unfailingly participate in. I do, however, have a… Read More
Monthly Archive: March, 2008
Jueves In Habana
It was a stroke of serendipity that I happened on the same day awhile back to stumble on both Mandy MacDonald’s Culture Smart Cuba and Nancy Alonso’s Closed For Repairs on the same… Read More
Reading Day Wednesday
I’ve tried for some time now to keep to a regular Monday–Friday posting schedule on this blog, though lately my off-line life has been quite eventful and even hectic and I genuinely regret… Read More
Patrick's Dinosaurs
Every evening at closing time I go around gathering up any and all stray books that have been left here there or wherever. (We scan them all in case any might be listed… Read More
Brown's Choice for the Purrfect Murder
Happy Monday! Starting off the week with a Monday Mystery. In Rita Mae Brown’s last Mrs. Murphy (my review) the mystery formula was marred by the use of the issue of illegal immigration… Read More
Water For Elephants
Long time readers of this blog already know that I am just a huge little kid when it comes to the circus and an enormous fan of Gary Jennings extraordinary Spangle trilogy chronicling… Read More
So You're Having Heart Bypass Surgery
Some books are really specialized. If you need them they are hugely important and if you don’t you’ll probably never notice them. At the library I see them all and when one of… Read More
Last, First Reilly, Ignatius
It almost feels like a cheat to blog about a book I first read more than twenty years ago, but the fact is the past few days I have been ignoring three new… Read More
Untapped The Scramble For Africa's Oil
"I bless the rains down in Africa…" John Ghazvinian, who is currently serving as a Fellow in History at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, has penned a remarkable book which for… Read More
