Category Archives for Books
THE OCCASIONAL READER–WHY YOU SHOULD READ “DIFFICULT” BOOKS
Why you should read difficult books Reviews of All the Pretty Horses; author Cormac McCarthy and The Cat’s Table; author Michael Ondaatje I can hear the screams already, “Clark, get your blankity blank story straight. Last summer you recommended we read … Continue reading
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy–my initial annotation
This week I re-read Cormac McCarthy’s “All the Pretty Horses,” after a lapse of nearly fifteen years. I reluctantly turned the last page at 3 am in the morning, sighing with an amalgam of satisfaction and discontent, an emotion that … Continue reading
Literary War Novels–“The Occasional Reader”–Vol Seven
THE OCCASIONAL READER Matterhorn by Karl A. Marlantes The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien This issue of ACMS Membership Bulletin contains my seventh “Occasional Reader” column. As I sit at my desk pecking away at my computer in … Continue reading