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...

Most of the authors in this anthology are British, hence little known to Americans. Yet no biographical annotations provided in the book...

"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...

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...

Drawing from his rich life experiences, the author’s musings are poetic and profound  As writing, this is worth reading. But as a book,...

This is a useful and commendable guidebook to the science of cannabis. In fact, I wish "The Science of Cannabis" were its title, rather...

I wish I could write like this author. She writes with an engaging style that is absorbing to read. Even as an incurably heterosexual...

During the 20th century, few scholars wrote books about cannabis. The best known is the 1971 trailblazer, “Marihuana Reconsidered,” by...

Handbooks for exploring the brave new world of the cannabis flower have been blossoming on the shelves of bookstores and even public...