Farf Looks At Books

Pardon the interruption! While in the midst of reading Martin Amis’ London Fields, I decided to switch things up for an upcoming Disney...

Tony Fletcher’s A Light That Never Goes Out is a book I’ve been looking forward to reading since I saw it in a discount book store in...

This is going to be a short review by necessity, since I can't say too much about this book. Make no mistake, it's a good read - seven...

James Carroll wrote one of the best books I’ve ever read, Constantine’s Sword, which follows the history of Christianity through the...

Note: This story was originally serialized in my wife's blog, https://mrsfarrellhob.wixsite.com/amomwithmouseears The Accidental...

Sometimes a book just works against you. No matter what you do, you just can’t crack that nut (pun intended). But even if the final...

Christmas comes too early nowadays. We live across the street from a grocery store, and I remember looking out our front window in...

I always like looking for seasonal books, no matter the time of the year. I picked up this book this past summer knowing I would keep it...

In a remarkable development, the Trail of Tears led the Osage Indians to a brief life as multimillionaires. It ended tragically. This...

In the early part of the century I spent a few months working (as in a full-time job) at a homeless shelter. I went into it thinking of...

Here are a collection of true statements that should ultimately contradict each other, but do not: · There are only 10 living authors who...

If you’ve ever wondered how running can get out of control in a hurry, this is the book for you. My Year of Running Dangerously starts...

So this was a pretty exciting find – not only to be able to read a Star Wars book before a trip to Disney, but to have it be a Galaxy’s...

Mary and Arupa are both going to the airport for business trips. Both are stuck for an hour in unexpected traffic. When Mary arrives at...

As mentioned a few reviews ago, while I’ve loved reading Chuck Klosterman’s nonfiction/essays (But What If We’re Wrong? being one of the...

Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside is the story of the 1944-1946 Army college football team, specifically focused on the two backs who made it...

I was in a local book store one day when I found out that John Steinbeck had written his own version of the King Arthur tales. I was...

Some things are just hard to visualize. I can read a book about astronomy and read about the vast distances between objects, but I can’t...

While it’s obviously a trivial pursuit to read Star Wars books, Alexander Freed is one of the authors I look forward to reading the most....

My history with Chuck Klosterman is a bit hit-or-miss. While I believe I had read a few things by him in early-century Spin, the first...