This book of John Lennon’s letters, with running clarifying biographical narrative by the editor, Hunter Davies, shows what a multi-faceted person John Lennon was. I had no idea he’d written…
Isabel Allende is well-known for the unique situations and settings she creates in her novels. This one may be the most complex of them all, since the first part of…
Don’t laugh – One Nation Under Sex is a serious, well-researched, informative look at American history as reflected by the sexual lives of many of its leaders and how they…
In I Remember Nothing, the first thing Nora Ephron tells us is that she has lost her memory, thus validating her title but also ruefully sharing a sense of aging with…
Reporter’s Note: I shared a radio show with Beverly Prentice for five or six years in Dalton. We were both volunteeers, but when that station was dissolved, she obtained a…
In Outlaw Platoon, Sean Parnell tells of his experiences as a captain in the United States Army in the 10th Mountain division on the northern Afghanistan border. Many of the insurgents they…
Giles M. Kelly makes the history of the Sequoia, the former presidential yacht, a rattling good story. Used by at least eight presidents, the author spent close to 10 years…
The Long Walk by Brian Castner, a very well-written book, is important in that it conveys two important happenings: what being an offficer under extremely dangerous conditions feels like, and even…
Julian Barnes won the much sought-after Man Booker prize for The Sense of an Ending last year. The back flap of the book has on it the very high praise…
This is a very important and frightening book about the dangers of the “cyber war” by an expert who was advisor (assistant vice president and other titles) to three presidents…