My Day
This is how crazy my life is. In Houston for a hearing, and am packed for five more days on...
Saddleback Leather Old Bull Desk Pad Set
Desk pads - and especially leather desk pads - are an acquired taste. You have to put one down on...
The Nightmare Stacks – Charles Stross
I'm not quite sure how Stross came out with two Laundry novels only a few months apart, but I'm glad...
Stiletto – Daniel O’Malley
Four years ago I enjoyed O'Malley's first book, The Rook, and have been looking forward to the follow-up ever since....
Phantoms of the Bookshelves – Jacques Bonnet and James Salter
Every so often I fall back in love with paper books, and have to read something about books or libraries...
The Dallas Cowboys: Winning the Big One – Steve Perkins
I have known about Steve Perkins' contribution to the Dallas Cowboys since 1974, when my cousin Jimmy had a copy...
Connections – James Burke
This 1978 British TV documentary series made such an impression on me that I got the DVD set, and Grayson...
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World’s Superpowers – Simon Winchester
This was a very good book that dealt with the modern Pacific Ocean by looking at multiple aspects of its...
New Naval History Books
I posted recently on two 1943 books about the carrier war in the Pacific in 1942, A Ship to Remember...