Finding Everett Ruess, David Roberts
. If you know adventure, solo exploration, and mystery, you know the story of Ruess. He vanished without a trace in 1934 leaving...
Why Bob Dylan Matters, Richard Thomas
The author, who is a professor of the classics at Harvard University is obsessed with Dylan. I think you gotta be if you’re writing a...
The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy
The first of what was supposed to be a two-volume story. Bobby Western is a salvage diver who is overcome with losing his sister, now...
Brief Encounters, Dick Cavett
I’ve always enjoyed having the Dick Cavett show on youtube or tubi in the background while I’m exercising, and I’ve actually read this...
Rogues, Patrick Keefe
Stories written by the writer in The New Yorker of over a dozen years that dive into the world of crime and corruption, secrets and lies,...
The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man, Paul Newman
The book looks backward at a time of his life – from 1986 to 1991. Its an encyclopedia of his thoughts and motivations, his conflicts,...
A Man of the World, Gilbert M. Grosvenor
GMG is a neighbor of mine. We live in the same county and our paths have crossed. His entire family has been knee-deep in NGS since the...
Scars and Stripes, Tim Kennedy
I picked this book up because I remember Tim when he fought for the UFC. So, what the hell, let’s dive deeper into what this guy is about...
The Dirty Secrets Club, Meg Gardiner
Her first book in the Jo Beckett series, this is vastly different than her Unsub novels and not nearly in the same realm of written form....
Unsub, Meg Gardiner
As soon as I finished reading Heat 2 (where Gardiner was a co-author), I immediately sought another book of hers. And this one did not...