Category: Book Recommendations

Publication Date: December 1, 2014 Publisher: Icon Books Ltd Page Number: 176 When I started reading this in 2017, I didn’t think it would take me this long to finish it.  I must have been missing my days of being in school.  This book deals with semiotics, which is another word for signs and its

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Publisher: Basic Books Publication: Reprint edition (September 8, 2004) Page Number: 288 I didn’t plan to recommend this book in October, but it’s fitting since Halloween is often associated with things that lurk in the darkness.  Yet, evil is not rooted in Christianity or any particular religion alone.  It goes beyond one person being evil

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Quote from Joe Hutchison, Damien Echols father: “It’s like a nightmare you can’t wake up from. Our son is innocent. We intend to prove it.” Quote from Mara Leveritt: “Children don’t write their own tragedies. That is the work of adults.” Publisher: Atria Books Publication: October 21, 2003 (first printing edition) Page Number: 432 pages

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“I always had trouble when I was playing with government money.” -Emmett Michaels- : Publisher: Huntington Press Publication: July 1, 2006 Page Number: 256 I couldn’t post four blogs worth of photos and not recommend a book regarding the whole mob and law relationship in Las Vegas.  Long before I plucked this book off the shelf and when I should’ve been doing

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“…if you expect people to try to do things your way, you’re going to have to give some hints as to what that way is.” Publisher: Algonquin Books Publication: April 9, 2007 (1st edition on May 26, 2006) Page Number: 352 Sara Gruen wrote Water for Elephants which was adapted into a movie in 2011.

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“At the age of forty-one, l feel another birth coming on.” -Calliope Stephanides- Publisher: Picador Publication: June 5, 2007 (1st edition in 2002) Page Number: 544 pages Jeffrey Eugenides wrote Middlesex after The Virgin Suicides, which the latter was adapted into a movie in 1999. This is his second novel out of three novels and

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“Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent–all depending on who wields it and how.” -Steven D. Levitt- “If you ask enough questions, strange as they seem at the time, you may eventually learn something worthwhile.” -Stephen Dubner- Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Publication: August 25, 2009 Original edition Page Number: 315 pages

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March 17, 2018: Book Recommendation: Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life Publisher: Holt Paperbacks Publication: January 15, 1999 Reprint edition Page Number: 288 pages If you don’t know who bell hooks (pen name) is, hopefully you will soon find out.  Her knowledge of class, race, gender, and culture is found in many of her earlier

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I’ve become acquainted with children’s books again.  These are two books that caught my eye as I was browsing the shelves.  There are about as many selections for children as there are for each kind of subject of adult books.  I have read both of them.  Eventually, I will be parting ways as they are

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Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Publication: 2005 First Edition Page Number: 288 “She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.” Plath’s noteworthy book goes without saying, and she remains one of the best creative minds

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