Don't Crucify Us (Book) - 8/26/2024 3:25:47 AM
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Ghosted Script (Book) - 12/26/2020 8:05:04 AM
J. S.,
Based on the quality of your book reviews, this book looks like a winner. I particularly like the idea of studios vying for a "hot" script that may just be a hoax.
Unfortunately, I won't be buying Ghosted Script soon because I have so many promised books on my desk that I haven't read. But if I do, I will be sure to give you a full and honest review of what I think already will get good reviews.
Ron
Don't Disarm Us (Book) - 2/15/2020 1:18:43 PM
I like how you put the Amendment wording on the front of the cover. Unfortunately, that simple statement seems to be misinterpreted and used to verify any kind of gun "keeping and bearing."
The Constitution needs a revamping and updating or it will continue to cause discontent in our country taking us backward rather than forward when it comes to learning the facts and finding out what is good to do and what is not.
Ron
Secrets of the Boulevard (Book) - 8/10/2018 7:20:49 AM
Looks interesting, J. S. A more detailed description and excerpt may attract more readers.
Ron
Black Elk Speaks--Book Review (Article) - 2/9/2026 1:06:48 AM
This review covers it quite well.
I read Black Elk Speaks some years ago {I still have it}.
I found it truly inspiring ... so much so that I designed my garden based on some of what I read.
Maybe that sounds like a strange thing to do; but it works for me. I wanted to create some of the natural ambience for my own little world.
The Searchers--Book Review (Article) - 11/16/2025 7:02:50 PM
This review is oblivious to actual US history, genocidal settler colonialism, the endemic racism of LeMay’s premise, the false trope of “captives” used to reverse-smear indigenes when white’s have carried out 150 years of bordibg school abductions and genocide. From 1816 -1978 the U.S. abducted hundreds of thousand is children sent them hundreds of miles from home to beat their language, beliefs & customs out of them, and to blackmail parents to turn over their land. The Searchers reverses these facts and posits a phoney abduction and hate-driven search to save a white girl from becoming barbaric. Westerns have always been designed to flatter the genocidal European.
Songteller--Book Review (Article) - 12/28/2020 9:53:08 AM
I had the good fortune of being quarantined in a little studio apartment in Morgantown, WV from 1971-74 binging on studies to complete my doctorate. But I was always home when the Porter Wagoner show came on in the afternoon on my grandmother's rabbit eared 17 inch black-and-white portable TV. I didn't much care for Porter and his outlandish Liberace imitation outfits, fake hair or his singing for that matter, but I stopped studying every time Dolly, a teenager that some thought was Porter's wife came on to sing her latest new song she wrote.
Later, I enjoyed how she talked about so openly her life growing up so poor with so many other siblings, her husband, and her ideas for songs that everyone can relate to. Many classics. And her movies were always socially awakening and funny.
Ron
A Covert Life--Book Review (Article) - 8/18/2020 5:36:15 AM
I enjoyed reading your review
Never stop writing
m
Black Elk Speaks--Book Review (Article) - 8/11/2020 12:00:42 PM
I wish I could read all the books you do. But I really appreciate your reviews. As a young man, I had occasion to meet and work with Native Americans. My uncle, a World War II vet, married a Blackhawk woman and they had seven children. Unfortunately, I'm not in touch with any of those cousins. My mother was, but she died this year.
Neihardt is one of those amazing people who catch hold of history while it is still available and through research and interviews like he did with Black Elk, and get it published and preserved. For those who have experienced so much, but don't write, their oral histories are so important.
I recently saw the movie, The Revenant. Makes me wonder if the movie was drawn from Neihardt's epic poem, or other sources. There were a number of heroic scenes like when Glass fell in the river that seemed improbable like the bear attack, itself, because hypothermia would have killed him within 15 minutes soaked as he was.
In 2016, I edited and published Brian S. Goodson's novel, Seven Fires: Promise of the Dawn after he died. Brian was part Indian and the novel was filled with mystical visions and prophecy.
Ron
Phenomena--Book Review (Article) - 7/10/2020 9:44:42 AM
From what I read, Annie Jacobson has compiled all of those phenomena quite well in a single book. Probably the most famous clandestine government project was Project Blue Book. UFOlogy has almost become a science, at least in the popular science/fantasy world and is bigger than ever.
Like you clearly describe British intelligence using mind tricks effectively during the war, governments have probably always had secret investigations going on to make use of tools and techniques on the periphery of human experience. Most of them have been proven as fakes, just magic tricks.
But hope springs eternal with the strangeness of physics that other dimensions and other ways of communicating between them is just a matter of scientific discovery. In some instances, for example, experiments with ESP that worked.
I'm sure she will get a lot of readers. People like that kind of stuff. Fits right in with political conspiracies.
Ron
In the Garden of Beasts--Book Review (Article) - 3/9/2020 8:13:58 AM
Another great review. It is books like this that bring history alive. So many have been brought into government service against their better nature. Martha's side story is an interesting aside.
Miller Caldwell has written a novel about his grandmother's involvement as a double spy during World War II. He made it a novel because he doesn't know all of the facts. But she was recruited while on vacation from Scotland. Upon returning, she was called in by English intelligence and asked to work for them. She did both brilliantly. I believe without looking it up, the title that book is, A Reluctant Spy. The novel has been made into a documentary of six episodes and may become a feature length movie.
Ron
A Covert Life--Book Review (Article) - 2/21/2020 10:33:50 AM
Thanks for this review. Lovestone seems to be quite a character in American history. His counterintelligence activity probably saved our nation much grief.
I would challenge those in our right wing to read about the history of communism in this country before they start blaming every government offered benefit like the Post Office and Social Security to be communist and therefore, dangerous.
Ron
The Real Wizard of Oz--Book Review (Article) - 1/15/2020 10:10:21 AM
It's hard to believe that someone born in 1856 would end up as a Hollywood script writer at the turn of the twentieth century and his stories of Oz becoming one of the iconic classics of movie history in 1939.
Frank Baum, like so many writers had to pursue other jobs while continuing to write in order to support his family of five sons. I believe that all the travel probably added to his story writing ability.
I have to thank you greatly for sharing with me reviews like this of books that I never would get a chance to read.
Ron
The Dead Letter--Book Review (Article) - 11/16/2019 12:45:24 PM
You haven't given any specs about the book, but I assume it is still available and in circulation. Sometimes, the first is the best. All the rest are just poor imitations. I'm not into mystery novels, but if I were, I would be to read this one first, to see how it's done.
Your reviews are always intriguing.
Ron
The Thin Man--Book Review (Article) - 6/10/2019 8:33:22 PM
Dashiell Hammett, always an interesting writer, I enjoyed your article.
Never stop writing
The Thin Man--Book Review (Article) - 5/28/2019 12:41:56 PM
I'm glad your review was more about Dashiell than about The Thin Man. I do recall the movie, but I don't believe I've ever seen it, in spite of all the publicity. Dashiell certainly was an interesting character, steadfastly communist until the end, and someone who survived tuberculosis.
Ron
Writers in Hollywood 1915-1951--Book Review (Article) - 4/15/2019 9:13:08 AM
I admire the way you are able to read and give us a great thumbnail sketch of books that we would otherwise not read. But this one is certainly apropos for today's political climate where we are getting close to the kinds of witch hunt that involved Hollywood screenwriters and the government leading up to the Sen. Joseph McCarthy hearings in the 19 fifties. Really too bad that the book stopped in 1951.
As writers, we should guard against repeating that kind of history.
Ron
The Man Who Never Died--Book Review (Article) - 2/2/2019 9:03:58 PM
I enjoyed reading your interesting, informative review
Never stop writing
m
The Man Who Never Died--Book Review (Article) - 2/1/2019 9:24:00 AM
Thank you for the revealing review of this case I never heard of. It's hard for me to think of Salt Lake City as a place for an industrial riot in 1914. The Mormons don't seem to be the violent kind and Salt Lake City still doesn't seem like a place of industry.
It is slices of history like this that help reveal that the troubles of today also occurred in the past. But we tend to look at the past with rose-colored glasses having forgotten that automatic guns (a 38 Colt automatic pistol?) and shootouts going back a very long way were very prevalent but underreported except by local newspapers and books such as this one.
Ron
