Tag Archives: books

Well, I found the perfect book bridging my career change. During the week or two between leaving the journalism profession and starting in the education profession, I was volunteering at a school when I spotted a book with this title: Girl Reporter Sinks School by Linda Ellerbee. I knew the …

Don't let facts get in the way of a funny meme

Why do we wonder about questions like this? Why do we buy books that claim to answer questions like this? Why do books like this hit the bestseller lists? We could chalk it all up to innate human curiosity. Or perhaps it is some natural fascination with minutiae and trivia. …

'Tis a shame that George is a whiner.

Kurt Vonnegut didn’t get to read his poem on the air during the Daily Show but this was later posted on the show’s Internet site. LIBERAL CRAP I NEVER WANT TO HEAR AGAIN Give us this day our daily bread. Oh sure. Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those …

Richard Feynman and Kurt Vonnegut are two of my heroes and those are damn hard to find these days. Both are fascinating, smart and unique. Feynman was a writer who managed to make this simple-minded reader really excited to read about science. I read with relish Feynman’s two autobiographical books, …

Robert Crais, along with George Pelecanos, Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly, is part of a new generation of crime writers that are sometimes as good as older masters like Robert Parker and Donald Westlake but sometimes miss the mark. The vocabulary and situations in their books are sometimes more modern, …

As Hobson points out, the history of exploitative, demeaning use of black bodies, particularly female bodies, is continuous.

A good story never dies; it just waits for someone willing to listen

"A narrative of history that was written to awaken consciousness of class conflict, racial injustice, sexual inequality and national arrogance."