Skip to content

Category Archives: Mr. Boo Klist

book list, and other write-ups and critiques

Fourth and Goal

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Completing the book list of 2011 shouldn’t be taxing. Its first entry after all took in the first three quarters. So where are we? Or to quote independent Ross Perot’s 1992 running mate James Stockdale (it IS a presidential year, after all), in a televised debate’s opening statement: “Who am I? Why am I here?” [...]

Also filed in | | Comments Off

Making Book

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Here it is September, and not only that but mid-September, and I have not posted my periodic list of books absorbed. This will be the second year I have attempted a complete list of books. Some I read, some I hear, as CD sets in the car while commuting. January 2011 Memento Mori, by Murial [...]

Also filed in | | Comments (1)

Walk It Off

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Book Report Bad Dad by Dave Lieber 175 pages, cloth, Yankee Cowboy Publishing, 2011 What an unusual little book. Fort Worth Star-Telegram metro columnist Dave Lieber includes newspaper columns here, but it’s not a collection. (Dave’s is a watchdog, or consumer activist, column emphasizing solving suburban hassles.) By the title, it might sound like long-form [...]

Also filed in | | Comments Off

4th Quarter, No Overtime, Soon Overdue

Friday, December 31, 2010

A final book list will close the 2010 year of Brick. After years of not starting then false starts, I resolved last January to keep a list of books on the home computer. It’s a vanity project — well, both the list and Brick are — but it’s been instructive: What do I like to [...]

Also filed in | | Comments Off

Third Quarter II, Into the Fourth

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

The Brick book list with sketchy reviews, continued. Book List through October 2010 September 2010 Solar by Ian McEwan. Book on CD. The novel by the polished McEwan got mixed reviews but I liked it. It’s a successful comic novel whose hero is brilliant but a buffoon, who wages a cynical war against global warming. [...]

Also filed in | | Comments Off

Third Quarter, I

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Four months ago, I entered here in Brick for the record a list of books I read or started to read, or heard or started to hear, for the entire year 2010, to date. You can stop here, this is just for me. There will be mini-reviews, though, for reference later. I am not creating [...]

Also filed in | | Comments Off

A Blog’s Purpose

Monday, September 13, 2010

Book Report: A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron. The novel A Dog’s Purpose is the best book written by a dog I have ever read. No, that’s not quite true. The book actually is written by the spirit of a dog. It’s the best book I’ve ever read by an ethereal being, outside of [...]

Also filed in | | Comments Off

Finally, a Book List

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

This is a list, a record, an accounting. Dull in some lights, if not pretentious, condescending and childish: Look at what I’ve been reading, Mommy! But in recent years, I’ve heard of more people keeping lists of books they’ve read. I’ve enjoyed looking at them. Nick Hornby’s is a feature in The Believer magazine. Of course, [...]

Also filed in | | Comments Off

Positive Positions Perhaps

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

“Think, men, think.” — Prof. Harold Hill, The Music Man New Year’s Resolution No. 1 for 2010 is modest: Keep a book list. Then in a year there’ll be a better best books Brick. One could say that if the books I read were memorable then I’d remember ‘em. It’s not as if I read [...]

Also filed in | | Comments (3)

Audio Stunts Your Growth

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

The Web site of the town stacks, Fayetteville Public Library, offers to e-mail patrons about new arrivals. A couple of months ago I signed up for the non-musical recordings notification to help me grab new book-on-CD titles. The shelves increasingly are picked over every time I stop by, at least for volumes I’d want. Have [...]

Also filed in | | Comments (1)