Category Archives: Book

Augustown

Posted on May 16, 2021 by smkelly8

Set in Jamaica, Kei Miller’s Augustown is full of local color. There are a couple of storylines: a preacherman claims he can fly and will fly up to heaven, a schoolboy named Kaia gets his dreadlocks cut by a frustrated … Continue reading →

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Bambi vs. Godzilla

Posted on May 3, 2021 by smkelly8

I enjoy books that go behind the scenes of Hollywood and explain show business and David Mamet’s Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business. does that beautifully. Writer, director Mamet, as you’d expect, provides … Continue reading →

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The Sky over the Louvre

Posted on April 22, 2021 by smkelly8

Graphic novel, The Sky over Louvre by Bernar Yslaire and Jean-Claude Carriere covers the Reign of Terror when Robespierre and the Jacobins maintained power through terrorism.  Revolutionary and artist Jacques-Louis David is looking for a model for his polemic painting. … Continue reading →

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Journey Into the Whirlwind

Posted on April 13, 2021 by smkelly8

The best book, certainly the best memoir, that I’ve read in years, The Journey into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg chronicles her experience of imprisonment in USSR during the Stalin era. Since she saw no evidence against her colleague, … Continue reading →

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Bosses in Lusty Chicago

Posted on April 7, 2021 by smkelly8

We all know that Chicago has a history of corruption, but do you know the chief actors: Bathhouse John and Hinky Dink Kenna? In the Gilded Age till Al Capone gained power, aldermen Bathhouse John and Hinky Dink Kenna dominated … Continue reading →

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The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles

Posted on March 14, 2021 by smkelly8

The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles tells the story of a man who lives on a coast far from anyone else. His mission is to find and fetch bottles from the … The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles

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Too Cool to Be Forgotten

Posted on March 5, 2021 by smkelly8

I thought Alex Robinson’s Too Cool to be Forgotten would be a quick read. For me it wasn’t. It never grabbed me so it took a couple weeks to finish. In Too Cool to be Forgotten a middle aged man … Continue reading →

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From “Mere Christianity”

Posted on March 4, 2021 by smkelly8

I found this animated reading from a chapter of C. S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity.

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Books

Posted on March 1, 2021 by smkelly8

At Frank Lloyd Wright’s home. Books Books as art. Wabi sabi with old books.

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The Emperors of Chocolate

Posted on February 24, 2021 by smkelly8

Joël Glenn Brenner’s The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars is a Willie Wonka’s Chocolate history for adults. She begins with a look at international marketing and selling chocolate in the Middle East and then … Continue reading →

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