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Books Hubert Wolf’s The Nuns of Sant’Ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal epitomizes how history should be written for the general public. Although the PR around the book promises a look at “sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth-century convent,” this is in no way a lurid read. Sure, […] Tim March 2nd, 2015 | Tags: best of the month, Books, history, nonfiction, technology, video | Category: A Reading Life, Film | Comments are closed | | In the hopes of some more consistent posting, I’m going to try (“try” being the operative word) to do a monthly post on the books, movies, etc., that grabbed me the month before. Books Surprisingly, the best book I’ve read this year will be 75 years old in September. But there’s a somber timelessness to […] Tim February 6th, 2015 | Tags: best of the month, Books, Johnny Got His Gun, video | Category: A Reading Life, Film | Comments are closed | | Around 1930, Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote an autobiography about her and her family’s pioneer experience. No one would publish it. Wilder ended up using it as a source for her wildly successful Little House series. Turn the clock ahead 80 some years and things have changed dramatically. The autobiography was finally published late last year […] Tim January 23rd, 2015 | Tags: authors, autobiography, Books, publishers, South Dakota, South Dakota history | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | | In evaluating my reading this year, a blanket would be a useful tool. One would cover virtually all the differences between my reading statistics last year and this. The only perhaps notable difference was that my fiction v. nonfiction statistics are almost exactly flipped from last year. For the second year in a row, two-thirds […] Tim January 2nd, 2015 | Tags: Books, e-books, reading | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | | I read more fiction than nonfiction this year so discussion of my favorite books is going to be limited to novels. In putting the list together I discovered something interesting: three of the five are about war. Not only that, they don’t share conflicts. One is set in World War I, another in World War […] Tim December 31st, 2014 | Tags: Books, fiction, reading | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | | |
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