Last week in my post The Road I mentioned that I had begun reading Cormac McCarthy’s novel of the same name. Well, I finished reading it just a few days later and I have to say that it was, indeed, brilliant. Telling the story of an unnamed father and son traversing an ashen, post-apocalyptic America, …
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The Road
In a previous post, ‘Books and Beaches’, I announced my intention to read one book every week over the course of the summer. The book I was reading at the time was Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, a collection of interconnected tales inspired by his experience as a foot soldier in the Vietnam War, …
Books and Beaches
After a multi-month hiatus, today I finally started reading again for pleasure. My book of choice? The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, a collection of interconnected tales inspired by O’Brien’s experience as a soldier in the Vietnam War. I first heard about the book just under a year ago through watching Ken Burns & …
Please Remain Seated 