Long hours in the car driving from Minnesota to the northern tip of Newfoundland means lots of time for reading. Here’s a list of the books that made the cut for this trip for each of the road-trippers (my sister, brother-in-law, mom, and me), with excerpted blurbs from Amazon. Don’t Tell the Newfoundlanders: The True […]
2018 Books: Top Ten
Thanks to being part of a book club and the discovery of audiobooks, I did a lot of reading (and listening) in 2018. Here are ten of my favorites: The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia, by Michael Booth This is an interesting look at the cultures and societies of […]
2017 Reading: American Stories
In looking over the books I read in 2017, it’s apparent that I somehow got on a kick of reading books that told stories about the history of the United States. Maybe it had something to do with the four 1000+ mile road trips across the country that I took. At any rate, if you […]
Road Trip Reading
Long hours spent in the car means long hours spent reading. Here is a list of the books that the five of us read on this year’s road trip: Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Vergese Guadal-canal Diary, by Richard Tregaskis and Mark Bowden Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Walls, Jeannette (2009) Hardcover, by […]
Farewell to a Great Story-teller
One of my favorite American authors, Pat Conroy, passed away on Friday. Here’s how NPR reported it: Pat Conroy, the beloved author of The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline and The Prince of Tides, has died. Conroy — who announced last month that he had pancreatic cancer — died Friday night at his home among his family in Beaufort, S.C. […]
Books: The Last Five and the Next Five
In a slight variation of the “books I read this year” type post, here are 2 lists: the last five books I read in 2015, and the first five books I intend to read in 2016. The Last Five (starting from most recent) Looming Transitions: Starting and finishing well in cross-cultural service, by Amy Young […]
