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What is the nature of our own obsessions? How might helping others be the impetus to possibly finding our own peace? These questions swirled around my head as I read about J. Reuben Appelman’s personal investigations into the Oakland County Child Killer case in his book The Kill Jar. The OCCK case is a series... Continue Reading →
Rise of the Superheroes by David Tosh is a fun autobiographical and historical journey through the Silver Age of comics in the 1960s. Tosh breaks up the era into four distinct time periods as he follows the evolution of the heroes and his own love of the genre. He explains the boon of many of... Continue Reading →
...The swells, the punters, the opium, and a few extra gelts... Paul French’s City of Devils combines one part oral history, one part entertainment rag, and one part true crime story to tell the bawdy history of the boom days in Shanghai between the wars. French describes it as “The Wild East,” an international settlement... Continue Reading →
Ken Bensinger’s Red Card is an explosive look into the corruption scandal that rocked FIFA, the governing body of international soccer, and the entire sports world in 2015. In a book that reads like Eichenwald’s The Informant or Lewis’s The Big Short, Bensinger follows the threads of investigation into bribes used to control the sponsorships,... Continue Reading →
I wish my merit badge requirement books had read like Ted Alvarez’s The Survival Hacker’s Handbook. Written with humor and sprinkled with some fun unconventional fixes, this book is a how-to guide (based on the author’s research and experimentation) for the weekend warrior who may fall into a sticky situation. Alvarez includes his own anecdotes... Continue Reading →
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