Archive for the 'Books' Category


Self-Quarantine-Day Two

Nobody on the road Nobody on the beach “The Boys Of Summer” Don Henley Are you bored yet? There was certainly no one on the road yesterday. The 405 south was a ghost land. However, on the way back up the hill there was traffic, because it’s raining. It hadn’t rained since January 1st, now […]

Ask Again, Yes

Ask Again, Yes: A Novel I could not put this book down. I’m wary of recommending something you might not like. I recently finished Liz Moore’s “Long Bright River,” one of today’s hot books. It’s about sisters, one’s a cop and one’s a drug addict. And to tell you the truth, I had a hard […]

No Saints, No Sinners

“No Saints, No Saviors-My Years With The Allman Brothers Band” You sold your soul for rock and roll. Well, at least your life. For the last twenty years, we’ve been deluged with tales of college dropouts going to Silicon Valley to change the world and get rich. They used to go into rock and roll. […]

Olive Again

Olive, Again: A Novel What if you’re just not that important? A tear literally came to my eye as I finished this book. Which completes the story of Olive Kitteridge, the protagonist of Elizabeth Strout’s book of that name back in 2008. Yes, they made a mini-series of that book back on HBO five years […]