Worthwhile Books

John Buchan (1875-1940) was a politician and author who is most widely remembered for his Richard Hannay series of novels . In his autobiogr...

I've dipped into Kindle Unlimited whenever I could get a good deal, and have had mixed feelings as you can tell from  this post , and th...

According to Alan Jacobs, as our society becomes more and more immersed in digital realities, we are losing our personal density.  He wrote ...

In a recent post I talked about the “100 Books with Dante” method of tackling daunting classics by reading short chunks each day with a kno...

I thought I had all the Audible titles I could possibly want, but once again, they drew me in with the promise of "3 months for 99 cent...

My reading of Metamorphoses was an example of the old proverb, "Slow and steady wins the race." Inspired by my experience with 10...

" You're both so clever," said grandmama admiringly. "I was never any good at languages ." " You're good at...