Meathooked by Marta Zaraska Meathooked  “is an investigation into why humans love eating meat.” (page 6) The author, Marta Zaraska, calls...

“Age Like a Yogi” by Victoria Moran Enumerated as 75 years, three-quarters of a century is a nice roundish number that makes reaching the...

Protest Kitchen by Carol Adams and Virginia Messina This book’s writing is visionary, as expected, but this book’s formatting is...

The Schopenhauer Cure, an historical novel by Irvin Yalom Exquisitely written with every word perfectly chosen, the book starts out...

“The Only Empty Place,” poetry by Richard Lehnert My introduction to this book was courtesy of that bastion of popular culture, YouTube,...

Hold the Apocalypse & You Only Go Extinct Once Humor! Literature! Philosophy! Psychology! The fine arts! The natural sciences! These two...

The Plague by Albert Camus This new American translation shines light where the older British translation cast only shadows.   As a...

Birder on Berry Lane You’ll find here a naturalist’s keen eye merged with a poet’s golden pen and a philosopher’s soulful wisdom.   At...

Meditations translated 1862 by George Long prefaced, poeticized & edited 2024 by MMB my PREFACE: This translation in 1862 by George Long...

The Trouble with Being Born  French publication 1973, English translation 1976   selected & edited 1989 by MMB This very second has...

Dialogues and Letters translated 1997 by C.D.N. Costa edited & republished 2004 in a Penguin Classics short paperback: The Shortness of...

Unlike all my previous blog postings, this is not a book review. This is an homage to Edward Abbey and a memoir of my discovery of Desert...

A master storyteller, eloquent writer, and profound thinker, that’s Abbey all in one Great American Novel.   I love Edward Abbey. The...

Could be embossed upon its front cover, “Now that you’ve seen the movie, read the book!” Much to my disbelief, I am berating a book by my...

You know the old maxim, “Live each Day as though it were your last … and someday you’ll be right.” The premise of this book is to live...

This is a dark, bad novel, with an international cast of confusing characters, and a contrived plot which includes intimations of a...

Like Ivan Ilych who fears he is dying, while reading the micro font of this edition you will fear you are going blind.   After studiously...

This nonfiction account of the author’s incarceration awaiting execution is compelling in itself, even if it did not serve as the...

I read this book right on the heels of reading Geoff Nicholson’s earlier book about walking, “The Lost Art of Walking.” (See my review on...

The Lost Art of Writing   As a walker, Geoff Nicholson has been privileged to have meandered all over the globe, while in this book he...