EDITOR’S NOTE: Time for those “top lists” of the year … when I asked Jim for his “Top 10” – he said “how aobut Top 20?” And then commented that when he scrolled through his Kindle and saw all the books he’d read throughout the year, he realized why he still had so many home projects that needed attention. To…
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Barview Jetty Store Offers Free Steelhead Fishing Seminar Tuesday Jan. 3rd from 2 to 4 pm
Visit Barview Jetty Store, south of Rockway Beach for this fun, FREE fishing seminar on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023, 2-4 pm Tim Reilly with Douglas Rods and Amato Publishing will be on hand to share his knowledge and answer your burning steelhead fishing questions. There will also be limited copies of “The Bead Fishing Bible” by Randall Bonner available for purchase. During the…
BOOK REVIEW: Humankind – A Hopeful History
By Jim Heffernan I think what attracted me to this book was the coda “A Hopeful History” in its title. by author Rutger Bregman. I found it to be an entertaining read that raised profound questions about our past and our present. It really didn’t seem like a 400 page book, The chapters split the central topic into stories that…
Neal Lemery’s New Book: Be the Change – One Random Act of Kindness at a Time …
Everyone needs this book. The title was often used around our house. One could not complain about this or that without being asked if they could do something about the situation… and if so, then “Be the change.” Pioneer readers are blessed to have Neal’s “Words of Wisdom” on a regular basis, and this book takes many of those commentaries…
BOOK REVIEW: Cheese War
By Jim Heffernan Cheese War is a book written mainly about a tumultuous time in Tillamook County between 1962 and 1968. It was written by a pair of sisters who lived through those years as teenagers. The book also includes a generous amount of history before and after that period of strife. I found the book interesting and entertaining. I…
BOOK REVIEW: Great Veterans Read from Local Author Mark Scott Smith “Night Fire Morning Snow – The Road to Chosin”
Dr. Mark Scott Smith has spent his post-academic medicine career writing historical fiction here on the North Oregon Coast that has taken him around the USA, Europe, Latin America and East Asia to research and write about America’s wars that have occurred in during his lifetime. Using fictionalized protagonists on both sides, he attempts to help us understand our enemies as well…
Broken News: Why the Media Rage Machine Divides America
By Jim Heffernan I was attracted to this book by the back story of the author, Chris Stirewalt. He was a political editor for Fox news and was fired for telling the truth. Maybe it was not exactly for telling the truth, but definitely for telling the truth too soon. His unforgivable sin was being the first one to predict…
BOOK REVIEW: Tuesday Night Massacre – Four Senate Elections and the Radicalization of the Republican Party
By Jim Heffernan I can’t shake the sensation that our political system and me were hit by a truck sometime in the distant past. As I brush myself off and look down that road, way into the past, I am mystified. I am hoping someone else saw what happened and at least managed to get a license plate number. It…
BOOK REVIEW: A Politics of LOVE
By Jim Heffernan This book just kind of caught my eye somehow like a bright, shiny object. I’m glad I knew nothing of the author. I’m afraid that my biases might have kept me from the book had I known more about her beforehand. Just having “Love” on the cover prompted me to get the book from the library and…
Author Kizzie Jones Races Dachshund Nikki at 15th Annual Firecracker Wiener Nationals
By Robin Swain Kizzie Jones, author of the Tall Tale series of children’s books, arrived in Rockaway Beach 4th of July weekend to promote her new book, A Tall Tale About Dachshunds in Costumes How MORE Dogs Came to Be. In the third book of her Tall Tales series, Kizzie weaves a story in verse of a girl and her…