We’ve crested the mid-point of our Siblings’ Book Club list for 2020. While it may have been wise to save this book for the colder months, I for one was happy to chip away at this most incredible of adventure … Continue reading
How well does humor age? Can a comedic travelogue more than 13 decades old still hold up, by today’s standards? We faced those questions when someone recommended this book—way out of left field—for our 2019 Siblings’ Book Club. Skeptical to … Continue reading
This title most often hangs on the coattails of Joseph Conrad‘s much more popular work, Heart of Darkness (think Signet Classics), and therefore also often gets ignored. But I’m not sure why, for if I had to choose one of these titles to … Continue reading
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I enjoyed Joseph Conrad’s Typhoon (1902) even better than Heart of Darkness or Youth. A Christian review. Continue reading
I’m on a bit of a Joseph-Conrad roll. With The Heart of Darkness and Typhoon in my rear-view mirror, I look forward to reading the much-praised (by my brother) The Secret Sharer. I’ve got to tell you, it’s a wonderful … Continue reading
For the next installment of our 2018 Siblings’ Book Club, we chose this classic story by Joseph Conrad, a book which (along with The Secret Sharer) had likely been on all our bookshelves for two decades or more, untouched and … Continue reading
This summer, as my family ventured up from Ohio through the U.P. to Northern Minnesota, we caught site of four of the Great Lakes. As always happens, I was awed both by their sheer immensity and by the mere thought … Continue reading
Having already read nearly every one of Clive Cussler‘s books, I’m now returning to those ones I’d failed to review the first time around. With the knowledge I have of his writing, both early and late, it’s clear to me … Continue reading
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OR The Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic Tom Swift might not be a household name these days, but for generations (including my own) he’d been known as one of the great American boy adventurers, right on par with … Continue reading
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Harry Collingwood, a pseudonym for naval-adventure author Joseph Cosens Lancaster, delivers here a non-stop adventure that is totally on par with a modern favorite of mine, Clive Cussler. The comparisons between the two authors are too glaring to overlook. Like … Continue reading
