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For my most recent trip to Myanmar, I brought only one book with me, Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin (2004). It didn’t take me long to wonder if I’d smuggled a banned book into the country, because this “travelogue” cuts deep in the heart of Burma’s political oppression, and it pulls no punches. I tried to hide the cover whenever I read it in public! Continue reading
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A True Story of Ruin and Survival It’s been a long while since I’ve given up on a book, but 90 pages in, I just couldn’t take this one anymore. As always, I follow the “100 pages minus your age” … Continue reading
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True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks It’s been a long while since I read a book by Clive Cussler—nearly 18 months, in fact, since I gave up on the last novel I tried, Odessa Sea. I did read The Adventures of … Continue reading
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Not long ago, I finished Beneath the Ancient Dust, a memoir of sorts by Melissa Myers about her nine years serving in Afghanistan. That book was a departure for me, an unknown female author roughly my age writing about all … Continue reading
