Farf Looks At Books

I remember learning about the Revolutionary War as a kid and thinking that all the exciting stuff happened in Massachusetts and Virginia....

As long-time readers of this site know, we love Dan Simmons around here. The author of The Terror and Drood and the Ilium/Olympos novels...

Like a church in Rome, Christmas is built upon traditions of not only early Christians, but the traditions held by those who became...

For those of you unfamiliar with Rifftrax...get on that. The former MST3K talent who produce bawdier and darker riffs for some of the...

I was very excited to read this book, as I've been a long-time reader of Rob Harvilla's 60 Songs That Explain the 90s podcast on the...

This book has a distinct beginning and ending, so let's go in order. The beginning: A suicide warning. I've never seen a book that...

It's almost incomprehensible to read what author EB Sledge and the Marines in the Pacific theater had to go through in WWII. The...

Note: This is the first review of my Posman Books trilogy. Probably won't get to the others until the new year, so STAY TUNED!!! Our...

WEREWOLVES - PRO OR CON?!?!?! Apparently this is a legitimate question, at least to some people, as Maegan A Stebbins writes in her book...

So first off...that's a pretty sketchy pseudonym - either this is a famous writer slumming it, or the author is in the witness protection...

We're well into the spooky season, so it's time to break out the scary stuff! This is actually a book I picked up around Christmas in...

The book On the Rocks tells the story of the founding and wild success of the restaurant The Primadonna, a shining light of cuisine...

Fun read during Ahsoka season - seven out of ten hot dogs!

Yes, I read a soccer book. But hear me out. Some of the best writing about college football in the last few years has happened at The...

What do you get out of reading? It's a question I ask myself sometimes. There's a lot of ingredients you can mix into that answer -...

Paul de Gelder is my favorite shark expert (put a pin in that!) on Shark Week. Former Australian trouble-maker and former member of...

The biggest stand-out in this book is that it was clear the author was very familiar with the Atlanta area. The book is set in Athens...

With the Oppenheimer movie coming out next week, I had wanted to read the source material, Kai Bird's American Prometheus, to get a leg...

Yes, second nautical-themed book in a row! Actually, two books - Roanoke Raiders and Powder Boy of the Monitor are two separate (short)...

The Internet, for those of us who remember life without it, is a funny thing. It can give you information in a split second. But it can...