Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie My rating: 3 of 5 stars We recently signed up for HBO Now when it became available on iTunes without a cable subscription to HBO. One of the first mini-series I watched was “The Pacific” (2010). [Come to find out I could have saved myself the HBO Now… Continue reading Book Report – Helmet for my Pillow by Robert Leckie
Month: July 2015
Early summer pasta salad and pulled pork
June 19, 2015 Joy of joys! Andrew, Henriët, and Jurgen came out from Chicago in June for a full three week visit. The weather was warm allowing us to pack a lot of fun into the days and nights: friend visits, a trip to Sunriver for a few days, and of course cooking to bring… Continue reading Early summer pasta salad and pulled pork
Book Report: In Cold Blood – by Truman Capote
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote My rating: 5 of 5 stars I’ve been so caught up in my new life of retiree that I found I’ve stopped reading. Not having a daily bus rider in which to get lost in books I had to find a new method of carving out time to read.… Continue reading Book Report: In Cold Blood – by Truman Capote
Book Report – The Naked and The Dead by Norman Mailer
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer My rating: 4 of 5 stars War is Hell; and Norman Mailer shows it to us in every page. his marvelous novel follows an army platoon as they work their way through the attack on the fictitious island of Anopopei. We meet some of the older members… Continue reading Book Report – The Naked and The Dead by Norman Mailer
Book Report – The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn My rating: 3 of 5 stars Roger Kahn was a newspaper journalist who covered his beloved Brooklyn Dodgers for two years in the early 1950s. This book is part biography part auto-biography. In the first part he writes about his childhood and his period of time covering “Dem… Continue reading Book Report – The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
