Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands by Bob Dylan
Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands was written by Bob Dylan and included on his album Blonde on Blonde in 1966. It was a song about his wife Sara Lowndes whom he remarried in 1965. It is an … Continue reading →
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The Return of the Dancing Master by Henning Mankell
The Return of the Dancing Master is a Swedish-noir novel by Henning Mankell, published in the year 2000. It has been translated from Swedish into English in 2003. Mankell is best know for his Kurt Wallender stories, a … Continue reading →
Tecumseh Valley by Townes van Zandt
Townes van Zandt was one of our great singer-songwriter-storytellers. In Tecumseh Valley, he writes with plain language telling the story of a girl who faces life’s challenges, has lost her way, and then dies. Even though this is … Continue reading →
Resurrection Walk by Michael Connelly
Resurrection Walk is a crime novel which combines two characters – Micky Haller from the Lincoln Lawyer series (7 books) and Bosch from the Harry Bosch series (25 books). The main story is a legal procedural story where Mickey Haller … Continue reading →
Pacing the Cage by Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Cockburn is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and guitarist who has been providing us with great music for over 50 years. He has written and performed over 350 songs and has 34 albums. Some of his activist songs are … Continue reading →
Network Effect by Martha Wells
Network Effect is the sixth book in the acclaimed Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells and I have read four of them now. All of the books are creative works, full of strong characters, humor, action, and plot twists. … Continue reading →
Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony
Beethoven’s symphonies were a portal to classical music after first hearing the 5th Symphony in 1969. I went on to listen to all 9 symphonies and I have retained a great love for numbers 3,4,5,6,7, and 9. I have … Continue reading →
The Overstory by Richard Powers
The Overstory won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2018 and was a New York Times Bestseller. It is a sprawling, ambitious work that winds the stories of several trees and nine characters throughout the long narrative. Some of the … Continue reading →
Puff the Magic Dragon by Peter, Paul, and Mary
Puff the Magic Dragon is a folk song written by Peter Yarrow, based on a poem written by a Cornell student Leonard Lipton in 1959, which in turn was based on a poem by Ogden Nash (1936). Yarrow made … Continue reading →
Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen
Squeeze Me is a satirical novel set in South Florida. It is also a murder mystery with bouts of humor and and full of humor and edgy dialogue. At times it is raucous and absurd. At other times it has … Continue reading →