Monthly Archives: September 2024

This won the Pulitzer Prize in the category of General Nonfiction in 2024 and it’s soooo good.   A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: |Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall2024 by Macmillan Publishing Group / 255 pages Read by … Continue reading →

I really enjoyed Comey’s 1st book, A Higher Loyalty, a nonfiction about his time with the Trump administration’s FBI https://mybecky.blog/2018/04/21/a-higher-loyalty-truth-lies-and-leadership-by-james-comey/ so I thought it might be an idea to try one of his two fictions he’s had published since then.  Well, okay, … Continue reading →

I’ve read a couple books by Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands, which is a fascinating but kind of bloody rehash of WWs I and II as it charged through Ukraine. Another is On Tyranny which was published just after Trump took office … Continue reading →

Everything about the man is a mystery: The massive ranch in the remote Black Hills of Wyoming that nobody ever visits, the women who live with him, the secret philanthropies, the private airstrip, the sudden disappearances. And especially the persistent … Continue reading →

Just last night I finished the very recently released memoir “Remember, you are a Wiley,” by Maya Wiley which just got on to the booksellers’ Recent Release shelves on 9/17 – lol.  E-books and audio books are so cool for … Continue reading →

After finishing Ai Weiwei: a Memoir,  https://mybecky.blog/2024/09/14/ive-read-a-few-books-in-the-last-week-or-two/ I wanted to know more about China’s 20th Century history so seeing  the book Mao’s Great Famine on sale at Audible I just got it, only knowing a few tidbits, but nothing documented.  This … Continue reading →

Back in January of 1958 Charles Starkweather, age 19, and his girlfriend, Carol Ann Fugate, age 14,  went on what was called a “killing spree,” an 18-day rampage of killing taking them through Nebraska and Wyoming. I vaguely remember the … Continue reading →

I’ve read a few books in the last week or two and haven’t been able to get them blogged.  I’ve been in the hospital for the past week and very ill at home the week before that.  I was reading … Continue reading →

Well this was fun! I guess I needed a bit of a modern western shoot-em-up set in the Wyoming mountains with good guys and bad guys and some very deep resentments.   Breaking Pointby C.J. Box, 2013Read by David Chandler … Continue reading →

This incredible work by Eric Larson is, like his others, a history book.  He carefully documents everything he finds – particularly any quotes but like others in this field he makes it all come to life by occasionally putting quotes … Continue reading →