One silver lining of quarantine/lockdown has provided an opportunity to spend more time reading and writing. While I was finally able to wrap up the trilogy, I also read a handful of awesome books. Here are a few of the highlights over the previous year. My most recent was Erik…
Category: Books
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 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.…
I just completed a pair of interesting books, Robert Baer’s The Perfect Kill: 21 Laws for Assassins, and Ben Mezrich’s Sex on the Moon. First, Baer’s The Perfect Kill, with a little background on the author to provide some context. Baer is an ex-CIA agent and now serves as a…
I just finished a pair of solid books, Hugh Howey’s science-fiction Dust, and Brendan Koerner’s non-fiction The Skies Belong to Us. First, Dust is the sequel to Howey’s Wool, the story of a post-apocalyptic Earth where the human race lives in contained silos stretching over a hundred stories underground. The…
I just finished two excellently-written books, Black Irish, a fiction piece by Stephan Talty, and True Crime in the Civil War, a nonfiction work by Tobin T. Buhk. Black Irish is a thriller set in the insular Irish neighborhood of South Buffalo called “The County.” The story centers around Detective…