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Life &/or Death – Part 3 of 3: MARCUS AURELIUS (121 to 180 AD)
Meditations translated 1862 by George Long prefaced, poeticized & edited 2024 by MMB my PREFACE: This translation in 1862 by George Long...
Mark Mathew Braunstein
Jun 86 min read


Life &/or Death – Part 2 of 3: E.M. CIORAN (1911-95)
The Trouble with Being Born French publication 1973, English translation 1976 selected & edited 1989 by MMB This very second has...
Mark Mathew Braunstein
Jun 82 min read


Life &/or Death – Part 1 of 3: SENECA (5 BC to 65 AD)
Dialogues and Letters translated 1997 by C.D.N. Costa edited & republished 2004 in a Penguin Classics short paperback: The Shortness of...
Mark Mathew Braunstein
Jun 81 min read


A memoir about the book, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey
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...
Mark Mathew Braunstein
Jun 81 min read


Book review of The Fool’s Progress: An Honest Novel by Edward Abbey, 1988
A master storyteller, eloquent writer, and profound thinker, that’s Abbey all in one Great American Novel. I love Edward Abbey. The...
Mark Mathew Braunstein
Jun 87 min read


Book review of The Brave Cowboy: An Old Tale in a New Time by Edward Abbey
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...
Mark Mathew Braunstein
Jun 82 min read


Book review of A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last by Stephen Levine, 1997
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...
Mark Mathew Braunstein
Jun 82 min read


Book review of In Paradise: A Novel by Peter Matthiessen, 2015
This is a dark, bad novel, with an international cast of confusing characters, and a contrived plot which includes intimations of a...
Mark Mathew Braunstein
Jun 82 min read


Book review of The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
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...
Mark Mathew Braunstein
Jun 81 min read


Book review of Dialogue with Death: The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War by Arthur Koestler
This nonfiction account of the author’s incarceration awaiting execution is compelling in itself, even if it did not serve as the...
Mark Mathew Braunstein
Jun 82 min read


Book review of Walking on Thin Air: A Life’s Journey in 99 Steps by Geoff Nicholson, 2024
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...
Mark Mathew Braunstein
Jun 72 min read


Book review of The Lost Art of Walking by Geoff Nicholson, 2008
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...
Mark Mathew Braunstein
Jun 72 min read


Book review of Beneath My Feet: Writers on Walking, edited by Duncan Minshull
Most of the authors in this anthology are British, hence little known to Americans. Yet no biographical annotations provided in the book...
Mark Mathew Braunstein
Jun 71 min read


Book review of A Walking Life by Antonia Malchik
"A writing is finished not when you can't put anything more in, but when you can't take anything more out." These wise words were...
Mark Mathew Braunstein
Jun 72 min read


Book review of How to Walk by Thich Nhat Hanh
The author needs to read the book, How To Write. As an advocate of peace, this highly regarded Zen monk has garnered many acolytes and...
Mark Mathew Braunstein
Jun 72 min read


Book review of Walking: One Step At a Time by Erling Kagge, 2019
Drawing from his rich life experiences, the author’s musings are poetic and profound As writing, this is worth reading. But as a book,...
Mark Mathew Braunstein
Jun 72 min read


Book review of The Wholistic Healing Guide to Cannabis by Tammi Sweet
This is a useful and commendable guidebook to the science of cannabis. In fact, I wish "The Science of Cannabis" were its title, rather...
Mark Mathew Braunstein
Jun 71 min read


Book review of A Women’s Guide to Cannabis
I wish I could write like this author. She writes with an engaging style that is absorbing to read. Even as an incurably heterosexual...
Mark Mathew Braunstein
Jun 73 min read


Book Review of Seeing through the Smoke by Peter Grinspoon, MD, 2023
During the 20th century, few scholars wrote books about cannabis. The best known is the 1971 trailblazer, “Marihuana Reconsidered,” by...
Mark Mathew Braunstein
Jun 75 min read


Book Review of The Leafly Guide to Cannabis: A Handbook for the Modern Consumer, by “The Leafly Team,” 2017
Handbooks for exploring the brave new world of the cannabis flower have been blossoming on the shelves of bookstores and even public...
Mark Mathew Braunstein
Jun 72 min read
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