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Book Review: Anti-Christ: A Satirical End of Days

Satire is a dangerous vehicle. There is a fine line between farce and simply being absurd, between making a point and clobbering the reader over the head with it. At times, those lines, particularly the latter, blur for Matthew Moses in his Anti-Christ: A Satirical End of Days. Yet there are probably many in its […]

Tim March 12th, 2007 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Book Reviews | Comments are closed | |

The Top 10

Having waded through the book journal for the A to Z list, time for the top 10, even though my list probably isn’t as important as other lists of favorite books. As I indicated, some books on this list weren’t on the A to Z list because of that list’s limitation of one book per […]

Tim March 1st, 2007 | Tags: | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | |

Books A to Z – Part 2

The second half of the alphabet was the harder of the two parts of the “A to Z” list. One reason is not surprising. I haven’t read a lot of books beginning with “Q” or “Z”, thereby severely narrowing the field of contenders. On the other hand, I was surprised how many books I consider […]

Tim February 28th, 2007 | Tags: | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | |

Books A to Z – Part 1

The seed for this post and its second part was planted with a Maureen Dowd column two years ago. In it, she wrote about making a list of books from A to Z that would help someone perhaps gain some insight into the person making the list. It’s something I’ve thought about doing ever since […]

Tim February 26th, 2007 | Tags: | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | |

Book Briefs 4

Brief reviews of a variety of books which, for whatever reason, I haven’t had the time or desire to write full reviews:

The Black Hills Yesterday & Today, Paul Horsted — A wonderful coffee table book about the Black Hills region in which photographer Paul Horsted found locations from which photos were taken from 1875 […]

Tim February 24th, 2007 | Tags: , | Category: Book Reviews | Comments are closed | |
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