Hello everyone and happy 2021! I hope all of you and your loved ones are staying safe, healthy, and out of harm’s way. With all of its challenges, I am sure few people are sad to see 2020 hit the road, myself included. This past year, however, has also provided…
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Hello Readers and Fans – So sorry for the radio silence over the last few months, just been busy with wrapping up Book III, graduate school, and life in general. Hope all are doing well and everyone enjoyed the holidays. Book III: The Resistance is complete and formatted – I…
Just finished two books recently, one fiction and one non-fiction. The non-fiction book, We Gotta Get Out of This Place, by Doug Bradley and Craig Werner, was an examination of the role music, and particularly the counter-cultural music of the 1970s, played on the lives of soldiers during the Vietnam…
I just finished David Browne’s So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead. While it was certainly a definitive story of the band from start to finish (along with references to their current iterations post-Jerry Garcia), it also followed a more unique structure. For each chapter, Browne…
I just wanted to throw a quick comment out on the 6-episode X-Files reboot on Fox recently. It was wonderful to see Fox Mulder and Dana Scully together again, and their chemistry and rapport did not seem to diminish in the intervening years, marking them in my opinion as one…
I just finished reading Johnny Dwyer’s non-fiction story, American Warlord, about Chucky Taylor, the American son of former Liberian president and warlord, Charles Taylor. It is a fascinating story of a fairly average suburban kid, growing up outside Orlando and raised by his mother and stepfather, encountering in his teenage…
I just finished reading Erik Larson’s In the Garden of Beasts, a non-fiction piece set in Nazi Germany during the year 1933. I love historical fiction and non-fiction (as those of you who have read Book II: The Revelations may have guessed), and especially any stories around World War II.…