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My list for the month. Breakfast: A History; Heather Anderson Destiny of the Republic; Candice Millard Krakatoa; Simon Winchester

:devillookVery nice, I have 800 posts to still peruse. Now to figure out the hyperlink feature...........

Books by a long shot. No two directors will do a film "by the book" accurately. I like to see the movie afterwards to see the distortions the director threw in.

:devillookCarefully and with coffee.

Hope you like it here. Nothing like Sunday reading, or any other reading time for that matter.

A great article from Slate on the speculated demise of the e-reader. http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/06/27/death_of_e_readers_what_does_that_mean_for_book_sales.html The killer of the e-reader is alleged to be the smartphone as well as the all purpose tablet. Is there a market JUST...

I laughed, I cried, I laughed some more.

Paperback or ebook, it just has to be a great book.

Welcome aboard! :) Always nice to have more crew members.

Destiny of the Republic; Candice Millard Like Simon Winchester's The Professor and the Madman, Millard's Destiny of the Republic is written in the form of historical narrative and has several interesting tracks from the viewpoint of several prominent characters. A reader comes away with a...

Project-Syndicate is a great collection of political thought with an economic lean. An interesting hypothetical question about the similarities between 1914 and 2014. The return of the sleepwalkers...

Crank it at the 0:47 mark and you won't regret it. Hearing is overrated.

Of course George let Osama escape out of Tora Borah because Iraq had weapons of mass destruction(sarcasm) When someone breaks into your car, that means you get to shoot up the neighborhood. So East Ukraine pro-Russian agitators want to be annexed. If this movement is large and is...

To me, defending Aaron Burr is akin to mounting a defense of Hitler, Satan, or the moral principles of wall street traders. It would truly be an almost insurmountable task in light of overwhelming evidence. Nancy Isenberg is more than up to the task in her book and she quickly admits to Burr's...

In the late '90s, I went to a bookstore and purchased Of Sense and Soul by Ken Wilber. While there are many books on Buddhism out there and I've read most, Wilber was different. His main point was to create a coherent "integral" theory that united science and religion and all branches of...

Our society, and religion subsequently, do venerate the rich as you maintain. On that point, we agree. While a Catholic political movement and a protestant pastor are indeed different, both purport a Christian viewpoint. The growth of the latter and decimation of the former shows that Lazarus...

Just finished this book and the title caught my attention, great "hook" for the caffeinated set. Howard Behar was president of starbucks and presided over a tumultuous time that saw the expansion of flavors, rapid growth of the company, as well as introduction of the automated coffeemaker...

753c-I will have to I'm not certain when "liberation theology" gave way to the likes of Joel Osteen. I'm not certain which is worse really. Phyllis Tickle and Brian McLaren write extensively about "emerging christianity" which is more about getting back to the roots and remembering THE...

Truth!!:devillook