I am continuing through Amazon’s 100 Books to Read Before You Die and have just finished number 9: All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. The book was published in 1974. The book was made into a film with the same same in 1976 starring Robert...
Frigging Amazon! I am going through Amazon’s list of “100 Books to Read Before You Die” and “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” was one of the books on the list. I have actually wanted to read this book because it was written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) who is...
I was in the fourth grade when I read Richard Adam’s book “Watership Down”. This book was a turning point in my life. It was the first book I read that was over four hundred pages and it was going to be a stretch for me. But I knew...
The American novel The Corrections was written by Jonathan Franzen and published in 2001. It was a critically acclaimed novel that won several awards including the National Book Award for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. It is also listed on Amazon’s top 100 books to read....
I have decided to read the 100 books you must read before you die from the Amazon reading list (to see the list, visit my website listed below). Needless to say, I am not interested in the subject matter of some of the books. But I know that does...
I have a girlfriend and she has two kids. They are 12 and 10 years old. They do not know me and I do not know them. For me, that is stress. For them, that is distrust. They are good kids and have begun to get used to me....
Leave common sense at the door, it is time for more Christopher Moore. His book, “Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove” makes the “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” seem like a Nobel Prize winning physics thesis. The book shows what happens when a pot smoking sheriff, an insane B-movie actress,...