Revrunner

    St. John the Baptist's Church, Stamford

Montague Bookmill in Montague, Massachusetts  

    I was back at my library yesterday when I spotted these books on the bottom shelf reserved for recent publications. Even though I'm ...

I can't believe I missed posting this one, by far and away the most gripping book I've read over these past few months. It reminds m...

" F or this book, I intentionally chose not to excerpt the best-known diaries . . . by Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum, Abel J. Herzberg, or ...

T he answer to one of life's most perplexing problems, thanks to Ellen Jovin's "Rebel with a Clause".

S tarted reading Meltzer and Mensch's book this past Tuesday. I'm well into the plot by now, with spies spying on spies who, in turn...

S tarted reading Jovin’s book yesterday and it’s already a lot of fun. This, for example: “In New York, a fashionably dressed young woman to...

F inished reading Enrich's book last night. I was so green to the subject that--for several pages--I thought Jones Day was an individual...

I 've "tunneled" through about half of Mitchell's book now and I'm not about to quit before I'm done. Of course, t...

Interesting conclusion to Williams' book: "The inoculation controversy shows us that we cannot blithely continue to make the simpli...

F inished reading Rice's book. The cover actually describes the contents very well, showing how Rice weaves together several seemingly d...

Thanks for yesterday's comments! They were very interesting, especially since I was leaning in the same directions. But I finally chose ...

My local library, like many libraries, promotes various books by genre, setting them out on tables. These were just a few of the titles on t...

I 've never really understood Lindsey Graham's turn from being one of the "three Amigos" (Graham, McCain, & Lieberman)...

I 'm about a third of my way through "The Divider." I'm sure that not everyone will be as enthusiastic about reading yet a...

I was surprised by how much I appreciated Andrew Lownie's "Traitor King." I really wasn't expecting to learn as much from...

I t's cold outside. Okay, not nearly so cold as in other parts of the country. Still, it's cold enough to warrant sitting down with ...

I nteresting how Henry Hobson Richardson , the architect, preferred working with committees rather than individuals as clients, thinking tha...