Category: Books

2017 in the Books

 This is my journey in books for 2017! This is my 2017 reading journey! TOTALS I read 32,108 pages across 129 books A big challenge...

Tiger Rag Today

A few years ago, I read the book Tiger Rag and I wondered how anyone could make the cornet a starring instrument. Then I saw...

FOMO, the Multiverse, and Doe Bay

I was reading Neal Stephenson’s book Anathem when my family made its annual pilgrimage to Doe Bay Fest on Orcas Island. It was a hard...

A Bookish Saga

On my first trip to Iceland, I naively bragged that I had read all the sagas. My listener was too polite to do more than...

My 2016 in Books

In true 2016 fashion, my year in books was pretty bad. In 2015, I set a goal of reading 50 books, hit it in September,...