The full title of Mary Trump’s book is Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man. Truth is stranger than fiction, and here, the truth is no matter how many shows I’ve seen about dysfunctional, obscenely wealthy families, none of them quite line up with the cruelty and corruption of […]
Archives for 2020
Review | Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
2020-07-14 · by ·
If you haven’t read any Ray Bradbury lately, right now is a fantastic time to read Fahrenheit 451. Published nearly 70 years ago, when computers still filled rooms and were the provenance of the military and large universities, 1953 saw an armistice in Korea, the Rosenbergs executed for stealing the atomic bomb for the Soviets, […]
Short Review | Love Your Enemies by Arthur C. Brooks
2020-07-02 · by ·
“What is the good of pretending to be what you are not? Well, even on the human level, you know, there are two kinds of pretending. There is the bad kind, where the pretense is there instead of the real thing; as when a man pretends he is going to help you instead of really […]
Review & Thoughts | The Bear River Massacre: A Shoshone History by Darren Parry
2020-03-15 · by ·
I want you to read this book. Darren Parry is Shoshone and The Bear River Massacre: A Shoshone History is as much a memoir of his grandmother, a work of family history as it is a history of his people. Though it does not read like something written by a trained historian (to my knowledge, […]
Review | Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
2020-02-10 · by ·
“Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature’s forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life […]
Book Thoughts | How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton Christensen, James Allworth, Karen Dillon
2020-01-07 · by ·
”For many of us, as the years go by, we allow our dreams to be peeled away. We pick our jobs for the wrong reasons and then we settle for them. We begin to accept that it’s not realistic to do something we truly love for a living. Too many of us who start down […]
