As I mentioned just over a month ago, I recently finished book #600—the 600th book, that is, since I began tracking my reading back in June of 2015. When I announced this milestone at the very cusp of the new year, I had only barely finished my analysis of the 5th hundred books read. I …
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Monday Book Report: The Real Middle Earth
I Read It So You Don’t Have To Dept. The Real Middle Earth: Magic and Mystery in the Dark Ages, by Brian Bates Though this book is a muddled cornucopia of flaccid ideas masquerading as history, anthropology, mythology, psychology, and spirituality, I am not going to spend much time outlining just why this book is …
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Monday Book Report: Sir Nigel
Sir Nigel, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Almost all readers know that Arthur Conan Doyle created the immortal Sherlock Holmes, the seminal precursor to all the idiosyncratic detectives which have since become a welcome (mostly) plague upon all our houses and libraries. And those readers more familiar with the creator of the duo of Holmes …
600 Books
Just this morning (early in the AM) I finished reading the 600th book since beginning to track such things way back in the middle of 2015. Now you can see, perhaps, just why I was so anxious to get the analysis of the previous hundred books out the door; I knew that the next hundred …
Analysis: The 5th Hundred Books
Well, I’ve owed y’all some analysis of the last hundred books read for some time now—just over a hundred days, by my count. I can only plead that I’ve been busy with work and stuff, the stuff being a silly NaNoWriMo project, but I have also been reading at a freakishly breakneck pace since I …
Monday Book Report: Wacko of Delight vs. Wacko in a Whiter Shade of Vile
I Read It So You Don’t Have To Dept. My Opinions: Incest and Illegitimacy, by Alfred JordanThe Negro and the World Crisis, by Charles Lee Magne Sincerity is a casualty of this Ironic Age. We now are surprised to contemplate that perhaps some advocate of this or that position actually believes the things he or …
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Book List: 500 Books
As I told you over a month ago, I recently reading book #500 in my reading records since I began tracking back in June of 2015. When I announced this milestone, I promised both an analysis for the last hundred books read and a listing of the books themselves. This post is in fulfillment of …
Monday Book Report: Wingman
Wingman, by Manus Pinkwater The 3rd book I’ve read in the past week to make me cry. Too short to write too much about, save to say that Daniel Pinkwater (yes, he used his middle name as his first on this book) is an author who can tell a heartwarming tale I can believe in, …
600 Books (not really)
This book made me cry for democracy. In both the transitive and intransitive senses. Since I first began tracking my reading after getting all of my books catalogued in a database a little over five years ago, I have treated comics and graphic novels almost as bastard stepchildren, not counting them fully in my ‘Books …
Monday Book Report: R Is For Rocket
R Is For Rocket, by Ray Bradbury The short story collection R Is For Rocket is designed to appeal to young adults (our current nomenclature for children who read), especially young boys growing up in the dawn of the Space Age. Reading it now made this once-young man cry several times, both for the limpid …