Showing posts with label reviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reviews. Show all posts
Sunday, April 13, 2025

Washing Clothes, Reading History, and Rethinking the Constitution (REVIEW)

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The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783–1789 by  Joseph J. Ellis My rating:  4 of 5 stars When I moved from Boise to...
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

"That Would Be Great"

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Bridging Generations at Work with Pop Culture—and a Movie Lunch There's a moment in every professional's life when they drop a per...
Monday, July 4, 2022

Liberty in Three Acts: My Fourth of July Tradition

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There are fireworks, there are flags, and there's always something grilling on the Fourth of July, but for me, Independence Day wouldn...
Sunday, March 1, 2020

The Vanishing Center: What The Right Answer Still Gets Right (REVIEW)

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The Right Answer: How We Can Unify Our Divided Nation by John K. Delaney My rating: 3½ of 5 stars In December ...
Friday, November 29, 2019

This Year I am Thankful for an Empty Nest...and Zombieland

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For the first time in my fifty-odd years, I celebrated Thanksgiving without my kids, without the comfort of my parents, or my siblings and t...
Saturday, July 23, 2011

365 Thank Yous (REVIEW)

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365 Thank Yous: The Year ...
Thursday, November 25, 2010

Morning Glory (REVIEW)

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Morning Glory directed by Roger Michell My rating: 3½ of 5 stars Slowly, but surely, I find myself liking Rachel McAdams more and more....
Sunday, June 29, 2008

The Ugly American (REVIEW)

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The Ugly American   by William J. Lederer My rating: 5 of 5 stars I first encountered this book as part of an undergraduate political sci...
Monday, June 23, 2008

Stranger in a Strange Land (REVIEW)

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Stranger in a Strange Land   by Robert A. Heinlein My rating: 3 of 5 stars I remember reading _Stranger In A Strange Land_ as a young hi...
Thursday, May 1, 2008

An Army at Dawn (REVIEW)

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An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943   by Rick Atkinson My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book is the first of Atkinson's three-...