Book Review – The Beatles 100
Ever since I began reading books about my all-time favorite group, have searched out for those that didn’t exactly regurgitate the same stories. Or, if they…
Book Review – HEAT 2 by Michael Mann & Meg Gardiner
Anyone who knows me, for that matter this blog, could easily foresee that the first novel by the renowned director-producer-screenwriter, Michael Mann, would have been so…
Book Review – The Beatles From A to Zed
Ever since I began reading books about my all-time favorite group, have searched out for those that didn’t exactly regurgitate the same stories. Or, if they…
Book Review – Solid State: The Story of Abbey Road and the End of The Beatles
No surprise given this the 50th anniversary for what turned out to be The Beatles final album, a number of tomes released in 2019 covering that…
Book Review – Beatles ’66: The Revolutionary Year
Given that it took some time, and a toll, to finish You Never Give Me Your Money by Peter Doggett this year, needed something to refresh the…
Book Review – You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup
“I don’t want to be on the other side of this.” ~ My wife quoting me as to why it took so long to finish this book…
Lucky 13 Film Club July Topic
Originally posted on Cindy Bruchman:
Welcome, Californian Michael from It Rains, You Get Wet. A fun part of running the Lucky 13 Film Club is the…
Kill City Blues Audiobook Review
Since I don’t write book or audiobook reviews at anything close to a regular rate, I thought to get one out before 2016 was more than…
On the Lookout for Books and Movies 2016 Poll Results
As put forward back in November, having just completed another parallel post season with my partner Rachel, the blogger otherwise known as the Scientist Gone Wordy, we followed up with the same…
On the Lookout for Books and Movies Poll 2016
As put forward last month, having just completed another parallel post season with my partner Rachel, the blogger otherwise known as the Scientist Gone Wordy, we’re going back to the notion we did last year.…
On the Lookout for Books and Movies 2016
Having just completed another parallel post season with my partner Rachel, the blogger otherwise known as the Scientist Gone Wordy, we’re going back to the notion we did last year. In the past, around…
Book Review – The Beatles’ Second Album (Rock of Ages) by Dave Marsh
At this very moment, playing on the vintage (almost forty year-old) Technics turntable as I write this is an artifact of my youth. A five decades-old LP — okay, the…
Audiobook Behavioral Science – Thomas’ Trilogy + Lee’s One
Have read every single book1 written by the man who began his writing career covering crime in the United States and Mexico as a reporter and…
Intensity by Dean Koontz ℅ Stephen King & Thomas Harris
Sometimes one discovers new aspects to a book, or even in this case an audiobook, upon second reading. Or rather, find you’ve had the same unsettling…
One of a Kind: Charlie Huston and The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death
Author Charlie Huston doesn’t seem capable of writing quiet or cautious fiction. Surprising would be the word I’d use when it comes to experiencing or explaining his work (and…
The Cartel – Winslow’s Chef d’oeuvre
In late 2009 I’d finally caught, up with the best novel, in my opinion, author Don Winslow had written to that point, The Power of the…
Reprise: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Audiobook)
In general, I’ve come to believe that as great as some notable novels are, written through the decades by talented authors (and I’ve only read a…
On the Lookout for Books and Movies Poll Results
As put forward back in November, having just completed another parallel post season with my partner Rachel, the blogger otherwise known as the Scientist Gone Wordy, we came up with a…
On the Lookout for Books and Movies Poll
As put forward last month, having just completed another parallel post season with my partner Rachel, the blogger otherwise known as the Scientist Gone Wordy, we came up with a…
Reblogged: ‘Just My Type – A Book About Fonts’ by Simon Garfield – NYTimes.com
Reblogged: ‘Just My Type – A Book About Fonts’ by Simon Garfield – NYTimes.com. Having finished Just My Type, an entertaining look at the things we take…
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