Farf Looks At Books

The problem with ebooks is you can't actually hold them. You can't tell beforehand how tiny the print is, you can't weigh them in your...

I went through a Jack London phase a few years ago. I read Call of the Wild and was blown away by how amazing it was (if you haven't...

Sometimes you learn the hard way that having a government is a good idea! Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling's A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear ...

I haven't written a review in a few weeks - real life and vacation got in the way. So instead of going long on the three books I've read...

I've been a fan of Chris Cillizza's from his CNN days and followed him to his "So What?" Substack. Chris has said many times that when...

What a neat idea! Star Wars has been getting into in-universe history lately. They started with the biography of the Skywalker family a...

Jim Thorpe died in what would now be considered middle-age after his third heart attack. He was broke and living in a trailer at the...

North Woods by Daniel Mason is my favorite novel ever about trees. Nine out of ten hot dogs. The end. What? You want more? ...

Yesterday was the Fourth of July. As usual for the past decade, I ran the Peachtree Road Race. Along the course, I heard "Born in the...

What's interesting about the opening of this 60s-set horror book, at least the printing that I read (through Kindle, so I don't know if...

Sometimes a book can be worthwhile and still make you want your money back. This is a review of the David Cordingly (author of the...

We are lucky to have had the geniuses that have shaped our world. From Aristotle to Marcus Aurelius to Michelangelo to Leonardo da Vinci...

Frankly not a ton to say about this book. It was interesting to learn about what it took to become the first female Space Shuttle...

For decades I've been enraptured by politics. I've sought out multiple sources of information about obscure elections, lived and died by...

Some stories are so unbelievable that there doesn't seem any way they could possibly be true. Before reading The Boys in the Boat, a...

Meh. Don't trust books advertised on Facebook. Five out of ten hot dogs.

Like many people, there was something exciting about the fall of Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX crypto exchange - Michael Lewis had been...

So this is my second of three reviews from the time I visited Posman Books back in October. As you may recall, the first review was for...

First things first - it takes some real brass ones to name your book after one of Mark Twain's most famous titles. That's real The...

So let me get this out of the way first. I bought the first two "From a Certain Point of View" books at the Star Wars Launch Bay in...