I read a lot. In fact, I read a hundred and write one. Not that I time myself or keep track in any way, but I do read a lot. From time to time I luck out and run into a book worth mentioning, then I will write a small description and rate the book from 1 to 10, although, I doubt I’ll ever get carried away and go whole hog to 10. If your taste runs parallel to mine, it might be worth checking into. The following are not in any particular order.
Crónica de Fray Gaspar de Carvajal Prólogo: Unas palabras sobre la crónica llamada Descubrimiento Del Río le las Amazonas por fray Gaspar de Carvajal (1500-1584). Uno de los supervivientes de la expedición, Carvajal narró los hechos en su obra Relación del nuevo descubrimiento del famoso río Grande que descubrió por muy gran ventura el capitán […]
I just finished reading a book by Doris Kearns Goodwin called Team of Rivals. I don’t normally recommend books, unless asked, but this one is special so I’m making an exception. For those that think our country has changed a lot during the last 160 years, think again. Sure, a lot of things are different, but the people remain the same. […]
Here is a letter I wrote to the Denton Record Chronicle that did not get published. Sean McCrory, its executive editor, was nice enough to write back explaining that “a response to a column it’s not something we normally would do as a guest essay.” He suggested I shorten it as “a letter to the […]
Alaska by James Michener. A friend of mine once told me that if Alaska was split in two, Texas would be the third largest state. Being from Texas, I naturally had to decide whether to be rankled or not, then decided to laugh instead: it was true. Alaska is big, really big, and in his […]