If there’s one thing Ray Charbonneau understands, it is runners. In Chasing the Runner’s High he may claim that he isn’t sure what a typical runner is, but if the proof is in the pudding, not only is Charbonneau a true blue, died in the wool, run in the sun, rain or snow runner, but he talks […]
A [very] Short Book Review: “The Appeal” by John Grisham
December 23, 2011 by
I read this in April of 2008 after Justice Nehring (of the Utah Supreme Court) told me he was listening to it on CD during his commute each day. Three quarters of my way through it, he told me it was not worth finishing. He was right.
Book Review: “In My Time” by Dick Cheney
November 28, 2011 by
What will history think of Dick Cheney? That jury’s still out, I think, but I know one thing: Cheney is doing his best to steer the criticism. I’ll be honest: I only read this up until the chapter when Cheney starts his account of 9/11 and its aftermath. At that point, I decided that his […]
Book Review: “1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus” by Charles C. Mann
November 27, 2011 by
I’ll be the first to admit that my interests in the historical have generally been Eurocentric, especially the Roman Republic and Empire. Recently, though, I found reason to pick up Charles C. Mann’s “1491,” and I have had a hard time putting it down since. The children’s nursery rhyme reminds us that “In 1492, Columbus […]
Book Review: “Theodore Rex” by Edmund Morris
November 26, 2011 by
To read the first in Edmund Morris’ biographical series on Theodore Roosevelt (see my review here: “The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt“), one might be left with the feeling that it was inevitable that Teddy someday become President. Individuals from his German tutor while he studied abroad to those who came into contact with him while […]
Watch out, screaming Twi-hards: I’m on Team Dad.
November 17, 2011 by
Tonight, as I am left holding down the fort with my daughters (sleeping, thankfully), my wife will venture out to a private showing of a movie due to be released to the public at midnight: Twilight: Breaking Dawn–Part 1 (because one movie can’t encapsulate the cuckoo bird sufficiently–it’ll be two parts). Rather than spend a lot […]
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