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Three things got me fired up for the new baseball season this week: seeing my neighbor and his son play catch, buying a pack of sunflower seeds, and reading this book. K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches is exactly what I love about the game, the stories. Kepner relays the building of relationships... Continue Reading →
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 →
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