by Jamie Chavez | Feb 4, 2018 | Books You Might Like
The last couple years have been … eventful. Eventful, adjective: 1) full of or rich in events; 2) momentous. He led a short but eventful life. It was an extremely eventful period in American history. I didn’t make that last example up, y’all; Merriam-Webster said a...
by Jamie Chavez | Jan 29, 2018 | Books You Might Like
My life is moving by at the speed of page-turns … Kate Atkinson / A God in Ruins / LF Rhys Bowen / Her Royal Spyness / GF James Lee Burke / The Glass Rainbow / GF Thomas Cahill / Heretics and Heroes / NF Beverly Cleary / Ramona Quimby, Age 8 / YF Ta-Nehisi Coates / We...
by Jamie Chavez | Jun 16, 2017 | Books You Might Like
The high spirits of Renaissance Italy spilled over into other European lands, though the waves set off by so much gaiety sometimes landed elsewhere with a shock and might even be received with contempt. The Renaissance, as it appeared elsewhere, could at times look...
by Jamie Chavez | Jun 8, 2017 | Books You Might Like
And though the deal was a windfall for [the company] and again made Anders a darling, it also gave him a belly of stress weight and a susceptibility to relentless bloody noses. He made a habit of riding home in the bar car and mauling a can of beer nuts and then...
by Jamie Chavez | May 26, 2017 | Books You Might Like
Cats, by any reasonable standard, are terrible candidates for domestication. The most obvious problem is their social lives—or lack thereof. Mankind’s basic strategy for controlling other species has typically been to hijack their dominance hierarchies, to play the...
by Jamie Chavez | May 19, 2017 | Books You Might Like
‘Done!’ said my lady. ‘Oh, Rupert! I lost my big emerald at play last week! I could have cried my eyes out, and Edward could only say that it must be a lesson to me!’ ‘That’s Edward all over,’ nodded Rupert. ‘Don’t I know it!’ ‘No, you do not, tiresome boy! He will...
