READING
I’ve always been an avid reader… especially when I began going on long expeditions and needed to keep preoccupied during storm days, rest days, loss of sanity days. One of my favorite things to do, still, is going to the library and check out a book. It’s like Christmas morning, especially if I’m fortunate to be the first to read a brand-new book they’ve just acquired.
The reason I’ve decided to start posting books I read is a selfish one. If this gets one person to put down their smartphone, turn off their laptop or TV, and sit for an undisturbed period of time to enjoy a good book, then it’s worth it. The benefits are abundant.
Most books I read have been suggested to me by other readers, admirers, or in magazine reviews. Not every book I read I like… though a majority of those won’t be posted because I just can’t finish them… too boring and won't hold my attention.
Get outside, sit under a tree or pop in a tent, and read.
Skål,
Sean
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November 22, 2019
A biography on Joni Mitchell, one of the finest singer/songwriters of a generation in my humble opinion. Yaffe conducted dozens of interviews those who know her and interviewed her as well 2007-2015. He dissects each of her notable and not so notable songs, telling t...
November 6, 2019
These were a mix of short-stories he’s recently written along with some classics. This is my first time reading Wolfe and wasn’t too impressed. At the time of this book release he was a professor at Stanford, had won all these awards and was praised for his literary wo...
November 6, 2019
This is Howard’s third book, and by far his best. My, how times have changed. It’s based on his interviews with musicians, celebrities, and personalities. His interview style has grown leaps and bounds. I remember listening to him growing up, and it was all fart jokes...
October 5, 2019
This book dives deeper into the relationship between Carine and Chris and their parents. It’s an appropriate epilogue to the wildly successful book (and one of my favorites) Into The Wild. Carine shares letters Chris wrote to her, the general insanity of being in a hom...
October 5, 2019
“Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of a life.” There’s a lot I miss about the nineties. It was an open, free time of possibilities, changes we thought were permanent. There is nowhere else I could imagine wanting to be besi...
September 11, 2019
Pleasantly surprised with this one. Robbie is one of the better musician writers out there. He was smart with this autobiography-- he wrote about his life up to the last performance of his band, ‘The Band’ and the seminal doc “The Last Waltz.” Great stories of him with...
August 16, 2019
Along with her own visits to a therapist to get over ‘Boyfriend’, Lori Gottlieb (herself a therapist) writes about a few of her patients she’s had in treatment. Most impactful was the story on ‘Julie’, who was dying from cancer. Lori does a great job describing how she...
August 16, 2019
With all the press this year it being the 50th Anniversary of Woodstock, I too got nostalgic and decided to read the latest book releases this year on the event. Though not yet born in ‘69, the music of that time is what I listen to frequently and have all the Woodsto...
August 14, 2019
Though it’s main hook was regarding the fire that took place in the LA Central Public Library in 1986, and the subsequent case against Harry Peak, an actor blamed for starting the fire, it’s really about a cast of characters that inhabit libraries, those in-charge of L...
July 26, 2019
I chose this book because of
interest in Harper Lee, who after writing ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, one of most seminal works of fiction in history, never published another book again. What happened? She spent years covering a true-crime story that the book lays out in de...
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