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Showing posts with label books 2021. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books 2021. Show all posts
Sunday, January 23, 2022

My Daughter's Book Featured in Lancaster Newspapers

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  My daughter Lauren's book "Amelia's Journey to Find Family" was featured in a review in the Lancaster Newspapers today. ...
Friday, December 31, 2021

Books of 2021: Fiction

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In 2021 I read fourteen books under the vast category of fiction. The oldest of the books was written in the 14th Century.  The newest were ...
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Books of 2021: Non-Fiction

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Non-fiction books of 2021 Just the list for now.  The highlighted links connect to my reviews of the book.  My Favorite: QED: The Strange Th...
Thursday, December 23, 2021

Books of 2021: First, My Favorite Book

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  The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio,  translated by Wayne Rebhorn In 2021, I read fifty books. But the first and best book of the year fo...
Friday, December 17, 2021

Civilization by Niall Ferguson

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Civilization: The West and the Rest is the 10th of the 15 books  Niall Ferguson has written between 1995 and 2021  I love one-volume histor...
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Thomas Jefferson and the First Draft of History

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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham There is only one actual version of the past, but there are endless interpretations of ev...
Friday, December 10, 2021

The Loving Resistance Fighter

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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology Nearly three decades, more than a decade before Facebook was a gleam in Mark Zuckerberg...
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Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Talking About Mysteries and the Pandemic with a Writer of a Pandemic Mystery

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Alison Joseph At the beginning my recent trip to Europe I had lunch with the mystery writer Alison Joseph and her husband Tim Boon, head of ...
Monday, October 25, 2021

How Many Books are You Reading Now? A Lot.

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Every few weeks I get a version of the question, "How many books are you reading now?"  On some online book groups, the question m...
Monday, October 11, 2021

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel: The Book and the Musical

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  Two weeks ago I saw the musical "Fun Home" an adaptation of a memoir of the same name by Alison Bechdel.  A week later, I starte...
Saturday, October 9, 2021

Thinking and Feeling: The Inside, Outside Difference

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  The past and the future are infinite and meet at the moment we are thinking.  Our thinking can reach into infinity. A friend recently post...
Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Hunting Magic Eels and the Search for Spiritual Reality

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Hunting Magic Eels: Recovering Enchanted Faith in a Skeptical Age by Richard Beck  In one of my book groups, the one where we read and discu...
Tuesday, September 14, 2021

My Top 61 Books -- Giving me delight is all they have in common.

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  As a member of several book groups, I occasionally see a list of the top 10, 25, 50, 100 books of all time or some time or recent time.  O...
Monday, June 21, 2021

The Three Little Pigs in French--the original gruesome version

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  Last night I read the original version of "The Three Little Pigs" in French. Children's books used to be so much more grue...
Saturday, June 19, 2021

My Daughter's First Book -- Amelia's Journey to Find Family

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  Lauren Auster-Gussman, my oldest daughter,  with her book Amelia's Journey to Find Family If I were asked to name one thing that defin...
Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Formosa Betrayed--A Chronicle of a Cold War Failure

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Formosa Betrayed  by George H. Kerr  The book Formosa Betrayed , George Kerr, traces the history of the island nation that has been in disp...
Tuesday, May 11, 2021

"Klara and the Sun" by Kazuo Ishiguro, a Review

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Spoiler Alert!!   I am going to talk about the end of the novel. If you haven’t read it, I don’t want to ruin the read for you.  Klara and t...