A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man’s mind can get both provocation and privacy.
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Passage from England by Frank Zajaczkowski CreateSpace, 378 Pages Get it at Amazon >> When author Frank Zajaczkowski contacted me about reading and reviewing his memoir I was flattered – as I always am. Then I went to his website and read the excerpts posted there, and immediately I was hooked, not just by his [...]
Hollywood Monster: a Walk Down Elm Street with the Man of Your Dreams by Robert Englund, with Alan Goldsher Pocket, 304 pages Get it from Amazon >> I have a memory from when I was twelve or thirteen (but probably twelve): I was sitting in the living room with my mother, stepfather, and stepbrother, textbooks [...]
The Longest Trip home John Grogan Get it from Amazon.com >> It’s weird the way some books fall into your life exactly at the right moment. For example, the day after I got home from my recent trip to New York and New Jersey, on a flight where I resorted to actually reading the different [...]
Indigo Awakening: A Doctor’s Memoir of Forging an Authentic Life in a Turbulent World by Dr. Janine Talty, DO Get it from Amazon >> Before Janine Talty became a doctor, her life wasn’t exactly a downtown Disney hotel. A social misfit, dyslexic to the point of being almost aphasic, and the recipient of several metaphysical [...]
Pretty in Plaid Jen Lancaster Get it at Amazon If reading Jen Lancaster’s last book, Such a Pretty Fat resulted in the loss of three pounds, without the use of weight loss pills, her most recent offering, Pretty in Plaid, led me to clean out my closet. Or at least, it would have, if I [...]
Dog Years by Mark Doty Get it from Amazon Dog Years was, perhaps, not the best choice of read for a time when I was convinced we were going to lose our chihuahua, Zorro. (He’s got a heart condition, and while we know we don’t have much time with him, he’s no longer in that [...]
Schuyler’s Monster by Robert Rummel-Hudson Get it at Amazon. Sometime in late 2006 or early 2007, I stumbled across the blog of one Robert Rummel-Hudson, and quickly became engaged. His writing style is upbeat and candid. He’s funny, but isn’t shy about using the word “fuck” when it’s appropriate, and he’s clearly completely devoted to [...]
