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I can hear the grainy echos and the high screech of the shifting chairs on the cement floor. The claustrophobic walls of the interview room closing in on the prisoner, yet his lies and manipulations always trying to pick their way out... The Last Stone tells the story of a forty year old disappearance of... Continue Reading →
Told in his signature style, Box Brown's latest nonfiction, graphic novel is a deep look into the history of the social, political, and academic war on marijuana use in the United States. Through a wide variety of sources and story-telling techniques, Brown explains the physiological effects of the drug and then follows its cultural origins... Continue Reading →
Everyone in Sonoma and Napa counties remembers where they were on the night and early morning of October 8-9 of 2017. I had left the window open next to my bed and the gusting winds woke my wife up at about 1am. It was soon after that that we started to get texts about the... Continue Reading →
"Most of all, I hope this book encourages you in your own search for ideas." Snider writes this in his letter to the reader, and his hopes came true for me. His collection of 1-2 page comics all center around the themes of ideas, creativity, and thinking. In a book like this I usually do... Continue Reading →
What exactly does a high school basketball coach do? Roll the balls out? Draw some Xs and Os on the whiteboard/ clipboard thingy? Rehearse halftime speeches? Perception vs Reality. Marc Skelton has made teaching and coaching his calling. From choosing to teach at Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School in the Bronx to the relationships... Continue Reading →
I'm going to start this review off with the verdict: A must-read for those spy novel fans who want to find out the truth behind those twisty plots. The ultimate 'truth is stranger than fiction' Cold War spy story. Oleg Gordievsky is a man who grew up in the world of the KGB. His father... Continue Reading →
First off, I will admit to never having watched the show on the History Channel, but I love a good treasure hunt. And that is what I wanted to find in this one. Oak Island is a small island off the coast of Nova Scotia, which has been home to a mystery for several centuries.... Continue Reading →
‘It was very difficult for the Americans to tell the good guys from the bad guys.’ Would the United States allow a man to take the fall for a CIA agent’s murder? Would the government be complicit in the cover-up? These are the overreaching questions directing Michael Pullara's book The Spy Who Was Left Behind.... Continue Reading →
I've read several memoirs about North Korea. Some by visitors, and a couple by escapees. Ishikawa's story is unique not only in the circumstances but in the telling. He was born in Japan to a Korean father and a Japanese mother. During the economic downturn following WW2, N Korea offered a homecoming or repatriation of... Continue Reading →
