Category Archives: Books

                    Led Zeppelin: When Giants Walked the Earth by Mick Wall (2008. St. Martin’s. ISBN 978-0-312-59039-0) I know. The lyric is from the Grateful Dead, not Zep’. But after reading Mick … Continue reading →

                    To Siberia by Per Petterson (1996. 1998 Translation. Picador. ISBN 978-0-312-42899-0) On the way home from school I walk right behind Lone and mimic the way she moves. She minces … Continue reading →

    Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (2011. Simon and Schuster, ISBN 978-1-4516-4853-9) I want to live alone in the desert I want to be like Georgia O’Keefe I want to live on the Upper East Side And never go … Continue reading →

    Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (2005. Barnes and Noble Classics. ISBN 978-1-59308-216-1) One of the classics or it wouldn’t be included in B&N’s trade paperback library, right? Well, Moll Flanders appears to have been included in the bookstore … Continue reading →

                    Blue Guitar Highway by Paul Metsa (2011. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-7642-2) Bob Dylan. Mark Knopfler. Nils Logfren. Bruce Springsteen. Tom Waits. You’re asking: “Munger, what the hell do … Continue reading →

                    Nothing but the Truth by Jarkko Sipila (2006. Ice Cold Crime. ISBN 978-0982444931) A low-level drug dealer is shot, execution style at the threshold of his seedy Helsinki dive. A … Continue reading →

          Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott (2009. Riverhead. ISBN 978-1-59448-751-4) Anyone who is a fiction writer has read (or should read) Ms. Lamott’s classic instructional memoir about creative writing, Bird by Bird. In 237 pages, Ms. … Continue reading →

  I Hate Brett Farve/I Love Brett Farve by Ross Bernstein (2009. Triumph Books. ISBN 978-1-60078-376-0) Every once in a while there’s a neat concept or idea, the sort of gem of a thought that makes for a dandy short … Continue reading →

  Two hours passed. The fog closed back in again making it safe to walk or sit aboveground. Kids talked, whittled, and dug elaborate shelves and steps in their holes. Several went down and helped Gambaccini and Jacobs dig graves … Continue reading →

          The Judge Who Stole Christmas by Randy Singer (2005. Tyndale. ISBN 978-1-4143-3566-7) I’m not much for Nicholas Sparks inspired sentimentality. So when someone (can’t remember who but, likely my wife) gave me a copy of … Continue reading →