Monthly Archives: August 2024

I’ve been interested in reading some kind of True Crime book about the Alex Murdaugh murder case, but I was a bit afraid it had all been told on the TV coverage. But an actual book hadn’t crossed my path … Continue reading →

Medicine has always been something of a difficult mess with all those many parts doing so many different things. And then practitioners adding their actions.  Out of all of them only one is they are dying which affects people generally, … Continue reading →

This won the Pulitzer Prize in the category of General Nonfiction in 2024 and it’s quite good.  On a rainy day in 2012 a semi-truck collided with a school bus and what with all of Jerusalem’s rules and regulations it … Continue reading →

I happened on this while looking at “suggestions” after finishing Circle of Hope by Eliza Griswold  https://mybecky.blog/2024/08/23/circle-of-hope-by-eliza-griswold .  Junger is a journalist, author and filmmaker and that sounded interesting as did other of his books.  I looked into it further and was still interested,  but it … Continue reading →

Anthony Fauci has been a hero to me ever since I first saw him on television and realized I’d read about him, too. So I’ve been  eyeballing his book, “On Call,” for the last few months.  He both wrote and … Continue reading →

This book just casually caught my eye, so I sampled it and promptly put it on my Wish List because it sounded just right for me now. I started reading and was very much enjoying the book and then I … Continue reading →

I’ve been wanting to read something by Applebaum for a long time – a couple years at least – and I finally came to a point where I just bought a copy (Kindle/Audible) of her latest which was also not … Continue reading →

I had read all 6 Greg Isles’ prior Cage novels of this series when #7, the last one (supposedly), was released. It took me a couple weeks, but I finally caved to reading the 950-pages racist and extremely violent narrative … Continue reading →

Salman Rushdie was 75 years old in 2022 – and so was I. So when, in the first pages of his newly released book, Knife, he asks himself the question, “Why didn’t I act?”, possible answers are given. But I … Continue reading →