A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend.
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I finished Breakfast of Champions last night after a pleasant bath that was accompanied by a public radio program about Celtic music. I usually read in the bath, but this is not the sort of book one would wish to invite into such a tranquil spot. All these hours later, I’m unsure if I liked [...]
First of all, the depth of research required to pull off a novel like this, filling in the blanks between the birth of Christ and the point at which we pick up his story again, when he’s in his thirties, is incredible, and even if many of the scenarios in this novel are preposterous, Christopher [...]
From Booking Through Thursday: First: * Do you or have you ever read books about the Olympics? About sports in general? * Fictional ones? Or non-fiction? Or both? And, Second: * Do you consider yourself a sports fan? * Because, of course, if you’re a rabid fan and read about sports constantly, there’s a logic [...]
I have to confess, I only bought this book because the titular story, Cowboys are My Weakness, was assigned reading for a writer’s workshop I just attended. I didn’t even like it the first time I read it! But then, after the first couple days of the workshop, when I was alone in my hotel [...]
