Category: Books
Recommended Reading: The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
Coco Éclair recommended The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts Hardcover by Joshua Hammer. From The Economist book review: JOSHUA HAMMER’S new book, “The Bad-Ass Librarians ofContinue reading
Something You Need To Know — How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman
“Usually doctors are right, but conservatively about 15 percent of all people are misdiagnosed. Some experts think it’s as high as 20 to 25 percent” Jerome Groopman How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman (MarchContinue reading
Knowing When Al Franken & I Can and Can’t Tell Jokes – Madeleines From Reading Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
First, here’s the quickie summary: Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken is an entertaining book, rife with humor and insights into how the contemporary political system works – or doesn’t work. But,Continue reading
Christopher Buckley’s Boomsday: A Modest But Wickedly Fizzy Proposal
A Great Summer Read Christopher Buckley has packed his novel, Boomsday, brimful with all manner of fun: An absurd, eminently believable plot (AKA a typical Christopher Buckley plot) A protagonist who is not only smart,Continue reading
TORA! TORA! TORA! Titter, Titter, Titter – Janet Maslin Destroys Gingrich & Forstchen’s Pearl Harbor Novel
What, one rhetorically might ask, could be a more entertaining divertissement than a well executed critique lampooning the grammatical gaffes and narcissistic portentousness of a history of a national catastrophe. If only such a delightContinue reading
Eight Great Books & A Clinker
Introduction/Update: This post (originally published Aug 20, 2006 at 1HeckOfAGuy.com, a predecessor of AllanShowalter.com) was the result of a challenge by an Ozblogistani buddy, whose wondrous site, Blogger On The Cast Iron Balcony, is noContinue reading
Our New Christmas Tradition: Reading “When Elves Attack: A Joyous Christmas Greeting from the Criminal Nutbars of the Sunshine State”
“When Elves Attack: A Joyous Christmas Greeting from the Criminal Nutbars of the Sunshine State” is #14 in Tim Dorsey’s Serge Storms books but you don’t need to have read the earlier volumes in theContinue reading