Back in the day I owned the role playing game Marvel Super Heroes. Granted, my friends and I didn't play it exactly by the rules. The rule book and judge's book were like novels and we just didn't have time to waste on all the reading. We used some of the rules and created the rest …
Best of the Decade, Part Two
And now the conclusion of my favorite books from this past decade. Again, these are in no particular order, except for the number one spot. Be sure to check out Part One. 10. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (2018) by David Grann In the 1920s, the richest people …
Best of the Decade, Part One
My list of books to be read is somewhat extensive, and most of the books are older. Of the books I did read that were published in this swiftly ending decade, these are the ones I liked the best. I by no means read everything published, and I’m sure there are some I have overlooked …
Two Weekends Every October
“First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.” -Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury I have always loved autumn. It’s my favorite season. The leaves turn wonderful colors, the heat of summer is tempered, if we’re lucky, and, of course, there’s Halloween. What’s not to love about Halloween, am I …
Dorothy Ann Distelhurst
September of 1934 was a busy month. One million textile workers went on strike in the United States on the first. Evangeline Booth was the first woman to be elected General of the Salvation Army on the third. On the fifth, the 8th Nuremberg Rally opened in Nazi Germany. On September nineteenth, the same day …
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
When I was sixteen (which is further in the past than I care to admit), I went through a phase in which I intended to read all the books that people said I shouldn't read. To this day I'm not quite sure who those people were or why they wanted to monitor my to be …