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Thursday, May 19, 2022

Book Review: Where the Crawdads Sing (2018). Delia Owens.

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One of the best-selling and most acclaimed novels of 2018, this haunting story set in rural North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s focuses on...

Book Review: Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer (2019). Bren Smith.

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This fascinating autobiography recounts the unusual path by which the son of American ex-pat refugees from the Vietnam war draft, growing up...
Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Book Review: Uncanny Valley: A Memoir (2020). Anne Wiener.

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The author, a millennial who became a writer for The New Yorker on technology topics, has written a sort of tell-all memoir about her exper...
Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Movie Review: The Courier (2020). Amazon Prime.

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Benedict Cumberbatch and Rachel Brosnahan star in a cold war spy thriller and docudrama about the Soviet spy Oleg Penkovsky, and the British...

Book Review: Under Occupation (2019). Alan Furst.

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For those not familiar with Alan Furst, a quick summary:   Furst is an American novelist who has written more than a dozen novels about the ...
Monday, May 16, 2022

Book Review: Everybody Lies (2017). Seth Stephens-Davidowitz.

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The essence of this book, by a former Google data scientist, is an exploration of how Google searches reveal more about what we're reall...
Sunday, May 15, 2022

Movie Review: Don't Look Up (2021). Netflix.

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This is last year's star-studded "end of the world" movie satire about a planet-killing comet headed for earth.  At the beginn...
Saturday, May 14, 2022

Book Review: The Spy and the Traitor (2019). Ben MacIntyre.

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John Le Carre' called this "the best true spy story ever told".   It describes the career of Oleg Gordievski, a Russian KGB ag...