Posts in the category “books”

Fifty pages into The Wager by David Grann (threads / bluesky) and can’t imagine a better dad summer beach read.

I probably have twenty P.J. O’Rourke books on my shelves. Truly one of the greats. I’ll miss him.

How the Week Organizes and Tyrannizes Our Lives

Command and Control

Stories from the Cold War

Would You Eat Them in a Boat?

Happy birthday, Theodor Geisel!

#FridayFive: Han Solo Books

In which I suggest going beyond the mainstream

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
W. Somerset Maugham

#FridayFive: Books Before College

Five non-fiction books everyone should read in high school

#FridayFive: Books for Senior Year

Five books to read before you finish high school

#FridayFive: Spenser

Robert B. Parker’s Perfect Sleuth

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bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.