Death is a mysterious dream, and dreams are always the most curious sport. — Josh Brolin Small book (226 pages) but dense in material. It hops all over the place with its 2-3 page mini chapters that describe moments in Brolin’s life. This haphazard sharing works in its favor, as being chronological would have made…
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Book Review — Surrender: 40 songs, one story, by Bono
image link All music comes from the water… — Bono I notice that I started the book almost a year ago. Surrendering myself to it and savoring it in small tastes was the right choice. Bono covers a lot of turf in this 500+ page autobiography. The title gives you the skeleton Bono uses to…
Acrobat by U2, Live in Berlin
image is a cutout from their album, “No Line on the Horizon”* I’ve been reading Bono’s book, “Surrender: 40 songs, one story” as a daily devotional for the past couple of weeks. Have been reading the book in bits for months now, as it is a bible, to be savored slowly. But I want to…
Liam’s book review: Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong, by Paul Chaat Smith
After reading Liam’s review, I’m interested in reading the book.
Goodreads — My year in books 2024
2024 in books https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2024 Not sure how I copy and pasted the list last year but the above is the best I can figure out for this year. Lots of great reading done for 2024. Having an e-reader now has a lot to do with it.
Book Review: Last Dance with Annie by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
Book Review: Last Dance with Annie by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields Elise is a 40-some year-old mother of a college-aged son and high-schooler daughter whose eating disorder finds her in an inpatient EDU (eating disorder unit) after starving herself to the point of being at death’s door. Elise’s husband, Tony, a VietNam Veteran and now Navy recruiter,…
Book Review — Petals of Haiku: An Anthology, edited by Gabriela Marie Melton
Book Review — Petals of Haiku: An Anthology, edited by Gabriela Marie Melton With over 160 poets, most writing 4 poems apiece, it became my morning meditation with first cuppajoe and a cat on my lap and one by my side, to read through several pages in each sitting. My original intention was to mark…
Tao Talk 