The Audacity of Hope

Yesterday I had lots of downtime when I was at the NCAA Tournament. I took a book to pass the time. What I didn’t expect was what that would do to me today. I had made up my mind yesterday that I would not go to South Bend to see the Clinton’s. I finished this [...]

Kiss Me Like A Stranger

I have always liked Gene Wilder. Over the last couple of years I have seen some of his older movies that thanks to Netflix were available to me. I heard an interview with Gene about this book on the radio in 2005 when I was traveling to Colorado. From the interview I really never wanted [...]

Tiller: Not Your Average Joe

Last weekend I knew that something was up with the Purdue Football Coaching situation. I didn’t know the extent of it, but generally that things were going on behind the scenes. I was down on campus to catch a game, and I was buying some shirts that were on sale in the Purdue Pride store [...]

Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life

I heard about this book a couple of weeks ago, and could not wait to read it. The book is about how Steve Martin rose to fame through his comedy. It starts with him selling guides at Disneyland, and follows him all the way to his peak on stage. You get to see how a [...]

Clapton: The Autobiography

Today I finished the autobiography of Eric Clapton. I have always enjoyed his music, and have always heard the rumors surrounding him. This book adds a lot of insight into the man, and helped me appreciate his music even more. He lets you in during the bad times, and the book ends with the good [...]

Lucky Man

Lucky Man is a book written by Michael J. Fox that chronicles his life before and after his diagnosis with Parkinson’s disease. He mentioned in the book how people always say that they felt like they grew up with him. I am the same way. He was on the hit TV show when I was [...]

My Life

This is the autobiography of former President Bill Clinton. I have always enjoyed listening to him give speeches, so I downloaded the audiobook of him reading his own story. The only one that I could find with him reading it was the abridged version. So I read what I could, and also listened to him [...]

Gerald R. Ford

After the events that played out at the beginning of the year I have been looking for a book on the late President. I have been to President Ford’s Library in Grand Rapids several times, and was even there as he was lying in state. Several days later I went back to his library to [...]

Truman

Truman by David McCullough was a book that I have always wanted to read. After reading his daughter’s biography and visiting his hometown I wanted to learn more. Unfortunately the 992 pages that the book brings with it has always made me a little gun shy of reading it. I received an iPod this Christmas, [...]

When Character Was King

When I bought Sharing Good Times from Barnesandnoble.com I also purchased Peggy Noonan’s book When Character Was King. This book cost quite a bit more than Sharing Good Times. It was $2.68. This book is a brief look into the life of President Reagan. This book is not as in depth as a lot of [...]