Forrest for the Trees

2017 on Goodreads by Various I shattered my goal of reading 17 books in '17, but that's mostly because I did not read Proust...

The Nightfarers by Mark Valentine My rating: 5 of 5 stars Mark Valentine 's name and fiction is often associated with authors such a...

So here I am in California. Both of my parents were, until yesterday, in ICU, at two separate hospitals 35 miles apart. I flew from Madison ...

Art & Existentialism by Arturo B. Fallico My rating: 4 of 5 stars Equal parts frustrating and fascinating. I admit that I am not ent...

The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz My rating: 5 of 5 stars Reading Schulz's work is like discovering my newest, best literary ...

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks My rating: 3 of 5 stars I am not a big zombie person. In fact, I couldn’t c...

Doctor Faustus: The Life Of The German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told By A Friend by Thomas Mann My rating: 4 of 5 stars It took me n...