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Of cyclists, colonial Catholics, and crappy endings
Last weekend I stayed at the Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, there to be evaluated for admission to their kidney transplant list. Much of my downtime was spent (how else) reading. How Cycling Can Save the World is a straightforward argument … Continue reading
Posted in history, Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged Africa, Catholicism, Colonial America, John Grisham, sports and outdoors
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The Lost Classics
The Lost Classics© ed. Jim Casada1950s-60s pieces by Robert Ruark from Field & Stream and other magazines260 pages A hunt for southern literature outside the Faulkner/O’Connor domain brought me to the happy surprise that was The Old Man and the … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged Africa, American South, Hemingway, Robert Ruark, sports and outdoors
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The Old Man and the Boy
The Old Man and the Boy© 1957 Robert Ruark303 pages Of the various titles on my Classics Club Strikes back list, The Old Man and the Boy is something of an outlier; I’d venture to say that most people haven’t … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged Classics Club Strikes Back, Nature, Of Boys and Men, outdoors, Robert Ruark, Southern Literature, sports and outdoors
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Gun Guys
Gun Guys: A Road Trip © 2013 Dan Baum 353 pages Why do Americans love guns so much? Dan Baum knew why he loved them. He was the skinny misfit who was mocked and left behind at summer … Continue reading
American Rifle
American Rifle: A Biography © 2008 Alexander Rose 512 pages The quintessential American firearm is the rifle, which through centuries of colonization and growth, has served in both myth and fact. I use myth not in the modern disparaging sense, … Continue reading
The Courage to Start
The Courage to Start: A Guide to Running For Your Life © 1999 John Bingham 208 pages John Bingham loved running as a kid. He wasn’t any good at it – he flailed his arms and wouldn’t impress any stopwatch-yielding … Continue reading
Two books on deer
Two friends of mine have deer who visit their yard on a regular basis. The does happily tolerate my friends’ presence in the yard, as they’re picking up sticks or watering the flowers. If, however, my friends have guests, and … Continue reading
American Gun
American Gun© 2013 Chris Kyle336 pages Think of English history, and longbows, tall ships, and shieldwalls may come to mind; think of France, and perhaps the image is knights charging across an open field. But American history, from the colonies … Continue reading
This week at the Library: Hunger Games, Hunting, and Baseball
I started this year off by finishing The Hunger Games: its finale, Mockingjay, utterly consumed my attention. It’s the story of revolution, a war against the oppressive Capitol which erupted in the course of the 75th Hunger Games, a teenage deathmatch … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, science fiction
Tagged adventure, baseball, dystopia, Man vs State, science fiction, sports and outdoors, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, thriller, week in review
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