Category Archives: On The Shelf

FINALLY…a post about books – or at least a book adjacent post – and it comes with a question at the end. (Please pardon my gratuitous use of a photo from The Morgan Library & Musuem in New York – … Continue reading →

  “Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land Of Mordor where … Continue reading →

This is the second in my Big Books series – introduced in this post: http://booksofbrian.com/on-the-shelf-big-books-9-9-2018/ The purpose of the series being to “spotlight what, for me, are the biggest, most important books in my collection and why.”  The first book … Continue reading →

  For my Big Books series, I thought this would be a pretty decent place to start – particularly in an election year.  I strongly believe that every person in this country should have a copy of the Constitution and … Continue reading →

I’ve been blogging now for about 9 months – my first post was published on 12/9/2017 – and I’ve enjoyed every single minute of the time I’ve put into this little site.  It’s given me the chance – after so … Continue reading →

  July is going to be a different kind of reading month for me.  I went into June with 6 highly anticipated releases – a decent number for any single month – and those books contributed to 30 days of … Continue reading →

About a month ago, I put up an “Odds & Bits” post on a series of what I thought were fun items.  One of those was a mention of the fact that we’d recently had a Half Price Books open … Continue reading →

Sorry for the additional partial post but a very funny thing happened on the way to the Publish Button. I was in the process of amending my original June Releases post to add a comment about Yoon Ha Lee’s “Machineries … Continue reading →

Things have gotten a little bit out of control lately – I have way too much to read and the list is only getting longer.  There is no way to get through everything currently “On The Shelf” – I know … Continue reading →

I usually keep a year’s worth of new releases stacked up in the “Saved For Later” list on my Amazon account and purchase by the month as the calendar rolls over.  The May list was particularly rich this year and … Continue reading →