Archive for the ‘Books’ Category

In case you noticed…

I had to make a minor change to the look of the blog today. For some reason the widgets that link to Goodreads were not working properly. Previously you could see on the left side several boxes which contained “Books I’ve Read in 2012,” “Currently Reading,” “Fiction Reading List,” and “Non-fiction Reading List.” For some [...]

February 2, 2012  Tags: ,   Posted in: Books, the blog  No Comments

Reading List Update

Last night I finished His Excellency: George Washington. A full review will follow shortly. As I was updating my reading list on goodreads.com (and consequently what shows up in the left margin of the blog here), I realized that I probably need to update one little detail about the reading list. I find it a [...]

January 18, 2012  Tags: ,   Posted in: Books  No Comments

YIP: 2012: Reading List

If you’ve been around for a while, you know that two years ago I put together a reading list for 2010. It was impressive. 26 fiction and 26 non-fiction books to be read in the span of a year. Um…and if you’ve been around since then you know that I am still working on that [...]

December 31, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Books  One Comment

Cellar Dweller

Okay. Not dweller. But I did manage to get some books on sale today at the San Antonio Library. Carolyn had mentioned the “Book Cellar” to me before but I had put it out of my mind – because honestly, do I really need to go buy more books? (Apparently the answer to this question [...]

November 30, 2011  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Books, stuff I think is cool  No Comments

Quick Review: 1776

The story actually picks up in 1775. I say “story” because that’s really what most of this book feels like. Yes, it is a history book. But McCullough writes in such a way that the reader is drawn in to a point that you lose any “academic” feel. Not that you can say that it [...]

October 3, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Book Reviews, Books  No Comments

New Books for an Old List

The recent sales at Borders and Half Price Books were either a really good thing, or a really bad thing. I’ll have to wait to see how my budget looks in a few weeks to know for sure. On the positive side, I found some interesting books at Borders – although none that were actually [...]

September 6, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Books  No Comments

Day 1

Today was a day of firsts. Fitting, since it is the first of September. Of course, the two facts are not unrelated. First first: I spent a few of the hours in the van today listening to a book. I chose to start with one of G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown stories – actually a collection [...]

September 1, 2011  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: 30, Books  4 Comments

Book Reviews and Louie L’Amour

After picking up a few Louie L’Amour books at Borders last week I set out to read one or two. As is my habit nowadays I went to the goodreads website to note what I’d done – mostly jus’ to keep track for myself. I’ve never really paid any mind to the reviews of the [...]

August 31, 2011  Tags: ,   Posted in: Book Reviews, Books  2 Comments

To read…or to hear

Last week I began a new job driving a van across most of the northeast part of San Antonio. Some days have been fairly short – five or six hours. Some days, like yesterday, were long (nine hours). The job is to deliver fruit arrangements to customers at their homes or places of business. My [...]

August 30, 2011  Tags: ,   Posted in: Books  3 Comments

Bookstores, books and bad habits

I finally made it to Borders for their closeout sale. I remember the first time I went to a Borders Bookstore. It was in Chicago while I was at school at Moody. My usual bookstore was Waterstone’s across from Watertower on Michigan avenue. And then this new store opened around the corner (I know…) and [...]

August 29, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Books  No Comments