“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
Title: The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared Author: Alice Ozma What’s it about: Imagine someone looking at your life through the lens of one family tradition. I can’t think of many Thompson traditions that would lend themselves to such a view (chocolate chip pancakes on Saturday mornings probably wouldn’t offer much […]
This post is not a normal Empty Shelf post, and it contains affiliated links. The other day, someone posted a link to Dorothy Sayers Gaudy Night for Kindle for only $1.99. And of course, I had to get it, even though I already own the paperback. Don’t judge me! (Oh, look! It still is! Get […]
This post contains affiliated links. Title: To the Last Man: A Novel of the First World War Author: Jeff Shaara What it’s about: Don’t you just love self-explanatory titles? More specifically, it is a historical fiction novel that follows four men (more or less) from the middle to end of the Great War: General John […]
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*This post contains affiliated links Title: The Weed Agency: A Comic Tale of Federal Bureaucracy Without Limits Author: Jim Geraghty What’s it about: This book is the epitome of fake but accurate. It’s the non-factual, true story of an imaginary federal agency that tells the real history of government corruption, incompetence, and general tomfoolery. Geraghty […]
This post contains affiliated links. Title: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Author: Neil Postman What’s it about: See above cartoon. Actually, it’s really about how the changing technology of information transmission has changed how we learn, think, and live. Or as Postman put it, “I will try to demonstrate […]
Title: The Chase, an Isaac Bell Detective Book Author: Clive Cussler why I read it: I was looking for a good audio book for my dad, and someone suggested Clive Cussler, specifically the Isaac Bell series. I checked it out of my library to preview it. It won’t work as an audio book for my […]
This post contains affiliated links. Title: A History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Fall of Constantinople Author: Susan Wise Bauer, read by John Lee. What’s it About: (Almost?) All of written history from A.D. 1100 to the fall of Constantinople in A.D. 1453, the Renaissance period in the West. […]
*This post contains affiliated links Four transcribed conversations and fifteen letters: if that was the record of your life, would it be sufficient? Would your be able to fill that space with anything worth remembering? Moreover, would there be enough wisdom in that brief space that all of Christendom would be quoting you almost 400 […]
This post contains affiliated links. Title: Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman behind the Legend (I don’t know why behind isn’t capitalized. It irks me.) Author: John E. Mills Why I read it: We just finished listening to Cherry Jones delightful audio books of the Little House series, and I was curious to learn more […]