Bryan Strawser

Musings from the land of winter & road construction

Category: Books

A River Runs Through It

Dear Jessie: As the moon lingers a moment over the bitterroots before its descent into the invisible, my mind is filled with song. I find I am humming, softly, not to the music, but to something else. Someplace else. A place remembered. A field of grass where no one seemed to have been, except for [...]

Library Trip

Finally joined the library, the new reading list looks like this: “Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center” (Daniel Okrent) “Dereliction of Duty : Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam” (H. R. McMaster) “Chain of Command : The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib (P.S.)” (Seymour M. [...]

Just Finished: Opus Dei

“Opus Dei : An Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church” (John L. Jr Allen)