Free books: Poetry
Curious Wine (2002)
Boyracers (2002)
I left Scotland four days ago, and the referendum for independence will be held in less than a week. So I figured this would be as good a time to read this as it will ever be. If there is something I've learned in my total of a year and four months spent in Scotland is that there aren't many thin...
Popular Hits of the Showa Era (2011)
Okay, the rundown is as follows: This is a wonderful satire of two groups of disaffected people who somehow find their way in the world through karaoke and murdering each other. While this is well-written, it's more about the relationships between the two g...
The Spare (2010)
Under a War-Torn Sky (2003)
When he was young, Henry Forester was a farm boy of the south, raising chickens and cows with dreams to fly. Although he had other plans to learn to fly, he found himself learning to be a man, stuck in the middle of WWII, flying B-24 bomber planes. Stationed in England as the youngest pilot on ba...
Cottage for Sale, Must Be Moved: A Woman Moves a House to Make a Home (2005)
Kate Whouley's Cottage for Sale takes my vote as one of the best books I've read on residential architecture and the relationship between home and heart. It was a serendipitous find, browsing the Ashland Public Library's shelves on residential architecture. Wholey's marriage metaphor aptly descri...
The Burning Man (1997)
This was the last story in a book of Readers Digest Condensed stories I received. I think that the condensed version cheats theauthor and the reader. I thought that reading a condensed book would allow me to read something that I otherwise would never read, but Idon't think it's worth it. This bo...
The Unreasoning Mask (2007)
While reading The Unreasoning Mask by Philip Jose Farmer I was reminded of a science fiction novel from the preceding century, Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. In Verne's novel the powerful character of Captain Nemo and his mighty submarine, The Nautilus, develop a relationshi...
My Gun Is Quick (2015)
Is Mickey Spillane still worth reading, and if so, why?I found myself pondering that question recently after working my way through My Gun is Quick, a 1950 book that is one of Spillane's earlier novels.The relatively simple story line follows an arc familiar to those who have read any of Spillane...