On the road
Life's journeys are worth sharing.
Category: Books and News
Here’s where I write about books and articles I’ve read and why I find them significant enough to share with my readers.
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(This piece appeared in the Jan. 15 edition of the Monterey County Weekly) This year, I added to my list of New Year’s goals and resolutions: to read the stack of free books that I received as a Christmas gift from Old Capitol Books in Monterey. Old Capitol had announced it would be open on…
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For the past two weeks, I’ve been taking my daily walks around the neighborhood in the company of Ben Tucker, more precisely, his mesmerizing voice reading the 1962 novel Big Sur by Jack Kerouac.* Big Sur is a first-person stream-of-consciousness account of a summer the alcoholic writer Jack Duluoz spends in the San Franciso-Monterey-Big Sur…
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Photo credit: The Long Lunch It’s the Christmas season and time to talk about gifts. I admire people who have their recipient lists and gifts ready as early as July. I’m not one of them, obviously. For many Christmases, my job and the pressures of raising a family denied me the luxury of surplus time…
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I recently purchased the book White Lady Black Christ by Charlson Ong after reading glowing reviews in a local paper. The author is a Filipino-Chinese writer who had penned three other novels, and although I had heard his name before, I had never read him. This time around, the reviews piqued my curiosity and prompted…
On the road 