by Richard Cummings
In this review of Camino Winds by John Grisham, I might tell you what you do not want to hear but I will also tell you something else that you do want to hear – you will enjoy this book! Often, I tell my readers why I chose a book. A book is always a time commitment and so we …
I generally avoid series books with a recurring protagonist and, in this review of Due Process by Scott Pratt, we’ll see if this avoidance is justified. Why do I avoid series books? I suppose I tend to see series books like endless movie sequels — products of lazy minds who want to earn big money with audience familiarity.
We learn a lot about ourselves from the books we read and the books we choose. In this book review of Oona Out Of Order, we’ll see what revelations await. I put in a decent amount of time selecting the books I choose to read. As you may have read in my other book reviews, I commit to finishing every …
In this book review of Saint X, I’ll tell you why this is a book that gets better after it begins but won’t leave you disappointed when it ends. Wait, you ask, does that mean that Saint X has an awesome ending and I won’t be disappointed or does it mean I won’t be disappointed when it ends because I’ll …
Where the Crawdads Sing has kept its place on the bestseller list for a long time. I didn’t want to read it but it wouldn’t go away. Every week, it’s there again – inescapable. Why didn’t I want to read it? As I viewed the Amazon page for the book, I found three compelling reasons to NOT READ Where the …
In this book review of The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell, I will share with you what I liked, what I didn’t like, and whether this is a book that you should have on your bookshelves or in your Kindle collection. This is the first book that I have read by Lisa Jewell. I have heard her name, and heard …
“Why should I read?”, my older nephew asked me as he was waiting for me to finish my book, eager to get to the pool. “Reading,” I told him “will teach more about the world you live in.” “Like what?” he asked.
What are your favorite books? This page is filled with my favorite books. Do you like my choices? Let me know what you think in the comments… Often, a person’s personal library says a lot about them. I have no idea what mine says about me, but I’d thought I’d share with you some of my favorite books. These are …
It annoys me that the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is on my favorite book list. The title itself is manipulative. We as a society are known to respond when given a numbered list. It’s typical of self-help books to provide you with one directive and then provide 30 supporting pages of evidence, as if you’re a dummy and …
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins may be one of my favorite books of all time. Tom Robbins combines profound and playful in perfect proportion. Also, he teaches you how to live forever. Two of the remedies are: lots of sex and lots of baths. Two things I love! Every Tom Robbins book is similar in this respect: expect the unexpected…like …
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is an outstanding book and a horrific movie, unless you like depressing European movies with little dialogue that slowly plod along. (If so, make sure you also see 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days). But really, one of the challenges of life is to live lightly, but not too lightly. Montainge mentions that in …
The book Magical Thinking by Augusten Burrroughs may not be his first book, or his most popular, but it’s definitely the best! The first Augusten Burroughs book that I read was Running With Scissors. This was more of a novel and I enjoyed it. However, after this book, all of his other books have been filled with short stories about …
If you want to read one of the best books about the 20th century, pick up a copy of The Century by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster. When the change of the century occurred, many books came out chronicling the 20th century. One of the most popular was Tom Brokaw’s The Greatest Generation. My parents have this book on their …
You will not often find me endorsing books of an overly serious nature but The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, and Atlas Shrugged, for some reason, defy my usually aversion to topics of seriousness and self-absorption. The Fountainhead is written by Ayn Rand and many of you, yes you, were suppose to read it in one of your college courses. But …
If you’re not familiar with the book The Best Poems of the English Language, you may be missing a chance to drastically improve your love life! I always have a book of poetry by my bed. Ok, yes, that me seem a completely prop, a ruse. But, I swear, it’s not. In college, my teacher challenged me to memorize 10 …