The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
Long. Now I don’t mind long books if they can keep me engaged and there were times where my mind was in… but it did wander. A young boy...
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
The personal writings of the Roman Emperor who ruled from 161 to 180CE. A philosophical jungle and Stoic perspective. He writes on...
Letters & Notes on the North American Indians, George Catlin
Written in the 1800s, published in 1841, in 2 volumes, an astonishing work by Catlin, by far, the most extensive work done on the North...
Men Without Women, Haruki Murakami
Murakami hits home with short stories on the lives of men who find themselves alone… somewhat like myself… so I gravitated toward them....
You Think It, I’ll Say It, Curtis Sittenfeld
The author’s first short-story collection captures the very essence of what it was like to be alive in pre-COVID America. A quick read of...
The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli
The theoretical physicist gives a poetic voice to the common human experience of moving through time. The book is divided into 3 parts:...
Lifespan, David Sinclair
Some people are just brilliant in the classroom.. and surround themselves with brilliant people. This guy is one of them. He knows well,...
So That Happened, Jon Cryer
I mainly… no scratch that… I picked this book up because I wanted to read about what Jon had to say bout his time working on Pretty in...
One Day, Gene Weingarten
Great idea… pick one day at random, Sunday, December 28, 1986, and write about what happened in the USA on that day… a woman who got a...
Saint X, Alexis Schaitkin
Paradise gone wrong when a college girl dies while on vacation with her family. There are moments in a person’s life that define you,...