Farf Looks At Books

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a tough book to review. It's long-form poetry, with very specific but unusual meter, and can often...

So, first things first: Yes, I had that phone from the cover. Bought it when me and my roomate Spoon got our first apartment in Hoboken...

For the second straight fiction book in a row, I'm unable to discuss a plot. In this case, this is mostly because I don't want to give...

Never Settle is Jimmy Settle's memoir of his life as a Pararescue Operator, or PJ, for the Air National Guard in Alaska, as well as his...

"That's a book REPORT, not a book REVIEW." Remember hearing that in sixth grade? It's very easy to do reviews in the following format: I...

In the late seventeenth century, naval forces working out of the colony of Virginia found a handful of dudes in a boat offshore. The...

As you would expect for a Philip K. Dick novel, Ubik is a mind...hanky panky. Whether it's entertaining or not is an entirely different...

Perspective can be a hard thing to maintain. We encounter a hurdle, a challenge, a struggle, and we let loose our discouragement,...

I've read plenty of Star Wars books in the past few years, to various levels of enjoyment. One thought that pops up from time to time...

I first heard of Allende's Be More Pirate while watching a Netflix documentary on pirates. It was one of those ones I hate, where they...

After being in a pandemic for the past two years, it's sometimes hard to remember that humanity has been dealing with deadly disease for...

I was cruising through Facebook earlier, and my Memories came up with a post I had written on January 27, 2018 about The Last Jedi, my...

Note: Was having trouble getting Wix to upload the cover of this book; in its stead, please enjoy this GIF of a young cowpoke. One of the...

There was a recent trend in books (long ago enough that it was a trend in BOOKS) where authors would take famous public domain stories...

Paul de Gelder is one of the most recognizable stars of Shark Week every year. He's recognizable because he's the only one of the Shark...

As we were approaching a vacation in Hilton Head, where we were also going to visit Savannah for the first time, I took a look for an...

Chuck Klosterman is one of the most successful writers of my generation. He first came to attention with his column in Spin (which I...

As per usual in October, I picked out a scary book to read to get in the mood for Halloween. This year that book was...My Best Friend's...

So this was a fun experiment - to read a book about an album that I've never heard and have no desire to hear by a band I have no...

So apparently this is the year for dunking on Odysseus. Earlier this year I read Madeline Miller's Circe, which called out Odysseus for...