Madness by Jim Mason www.JimMason.info/madness A PORTRAIT of the AUTHOR as a YOUNG FARMER Allured by its provocative title, “Madness,”...

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, both by Bob Lorentson Humor! Literature! Philosophy! Psychology! The fine arts! The...

The Plague by Albert Camus, translated by Laura Marris This new American translation shines light where the older British translation...

Birder on Berry Lane by Robert Tougias You’ll find here a naturalist’s keen eye merged with a poet’s golden pen and a philosopher’s...

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

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

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...

The Fool's Progress by Edward Abbey0 A master storyteller, eloquent writer, and profound thinker, that’s Abbey all in one Great American...

The Brave Cowboy by Edward Abbey Could be embossed upon its front cover, “Now that you’ve seen the movie, read the book!” Much to my...

A Year to Live by Stephen Levine You know the old maxim, “Live each Day as though it were your last … and someday you’ll be right.” The...

In Paradise by Peter Matthiessen This is a dark, bad novel, with an international cast of confusing characters, and a contrived plot...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoi Like Ivan Ilych who fears he is dying, while reading the micro font of this edition you will fear...

Dialogue with Death by Arthur Koestler This nonfiction account of the author’s incarceration awaiting execution is compelling in itself,...

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...