Satchmo - My Life in New Orleans - Louis Armstrong (1954)

Raise Up Off Me - Hampton Hawes/Don Asher (1972)

What is it about books? Not audio books or books you read on your Kindle - actual books. Like record…

The Jerrie Mock Story - Nancy Roe Pimm (2016)

Happy Mother's Day to all who celebrate. And to those who celibate I say, where would you be if your mother had that attitude? There's something my mother would say, referring…

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator - Roald Dahl (1972)
Illustrated by Joseph Shindelman

I have loved Roald Dahl since I was 10. I started with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, of course, and moved on to all his books…

In the Heart of the Sea - Nathaniel Philbrick  (2000)
385 days - Jonathan Franklin   (2015)

My local is called O'Sullivans. It's three long blocks from the Narrows where I live and is the first sign of civilization on a…

Ninety-nine Bottles    Joseph G. Peterson   (2019)

This past summer, my wife and daughter and I endeavored to swim in every Great Lake. We called it, 'The Great, Great Lakes Adventure.' The impetus was the wedding of my nephew in Buffalo.…

Annie Ross Says ‘Come on In!’...and try her favourite recipes (1972)

My mom used to read cookbooks. I never understood it. How can you just read ingredients and procedure? That's got to be boring. Nobody writes that well. But my…

Dust to Deliverance - Jessica DuLong   (2021)

A Night to Remember - Walter Lord    (1955)

When I moved to NYC more than 20 years ago, I was reading a lot. I bounced around town playing ballet and modern dance classes…

A Confederacyy of Dumptys (2021)
Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown (2020)
John Lithgow

Breaking The World Jerry Gordon (2018)


I got these two Lithgow books last year for Xmas. They are numbers two and three of his series of satirical…

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler     E.L. Konigsberg   (1967) 

Plagues and Pandemics - History Smashers      Kate Messner  (2021) 

If I'm going to make my goal of 100, I'll have to include kids books and books I might…

What's it been? Two years? How was your pandemic? We survived well enough. Better than too many. I finished my book, 50,000 Bonghits, so I did something productive during my down time. At the beginning of this year I was…