“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Empty Shelf Book: Choosing the right medium
This post contains affiliated links. Title: The Iliad Author: Homer*, translation Richard Lattimore, narrator Charlton Griffin What it’s about: “The anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus and its devastation.” If you don’t know the story of the Iliad, there are spoilers ahead. The Iliad is about a few days toward the very end of the Trojan […]
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Empty Shelf: In Chapter 28, you’ll want to hit someome
Title: The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared Author: Alice Ozma What’s it about: Imagine someone looking at your life through the lens of one family tradition. I can’t think of many Thompson traditions that would lend themselves to such a view (chocolate chip pancakes on Saturday mornings probably wouldn’t offer much […]
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Empty Shelf: The Cost of Truth
This post is not a normal Empty Shelf post, and it contains affiliated links. The other day, someone posted a link to Dorothy Sayers Gaudy Night for Kindle for only $1.99. And of course, I had to get it, even though I already own the paperback. Don’t judge me! (Oh, look! It still is! Get […]
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Empty Shelf: An adequate substitute for a good book
This post contains affiliated links. Title: The Guns of August Author: Barbara Tuchman, read by Nadia May What’s It About: Tuchman explores the lead-up to World War I and the first month of the war, up to the First Battle of the Marne. It is one of the most well-known and well-regarded books about The […]
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Empty Shelf Challenge: To the Last Man
This post contains affiliated links. Title: To the Last Man: A Novel of the First World War Author: Jeff Shaara What it’s about: Don’t you just love self-explanatory titles? More specifically, it is a historical fiction novel that follows four men (more or less) from the middle to end of the Great War: General John […]
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Empty Shelf Challenge: A how-to with heart
Title: How to Read Slowly: Reading for Comprehension Author: James W. Sire The primary scales that the survey evaluates are: Excitable – moody, easily irritable, and best viagra in uk hard to satisfy, and handling stress by getting out of relationships. Here are some of the suggested and effective buy sildenafil uk ways to […]
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Empty shelf: Funny even though it’s true
*This post contains affiliated links Title: The Weed Agency: A Comic Tale of Federal Bureaucracy Without Limits Author: Jim Geraghty What’s it about: This book is the epitome of fake but accurate. It’s the non-factual, true story of an imaginary federal agency that tells the real history of government corruption, incompetence, and general tomfoolery. Geraghty […]
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Empty Shelf: We’re not dead yet(?)
This post contains affiliated links. Title: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Author: Neil Postman What’s it about: See above cartoon. Actually, it’s really about how the changing technology of information transmission has changed how we learn, think, and live. Or as Postman put it, “I will try to demonstrate […]
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Empty Shelf: Summer fluff
Title: The Chase, an Isaac Bell Detective Book Author: Clive Cussler why I read it: I was looking for a good audio book for my dad, and someone suggested Clive Cussler, specifically the Isaac Bell series. I checked it out of my library to preview it. It won’t work as an audio book for my […]
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Empty Shelf: I hate cliffhangers
This post contains affiliated links. Title: A History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Fall of Constantinople Author: Susan Wise Bauer, read by John Lee. What’s it About: (Almost?) All of written history from A.D. 1100 to the fall of Constantinople in A.D. 1453, the Renaissance period in the West. […]
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