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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“Thrifty Comfort Cooking for Challenging Times” – Cookbook Provides Easy, Affordable Recipes for All Cooks; Proceeds of Cookbook Sales to Benefit Local Food Banks
By Laura Swanson This is one of the good things that has come from the pandemic – Judith Yamada’s cookbook “Thrifty Comfort Cooking for Challenging Times.” Seeing a need to help all…
BOOK REVIEW: What Unites Us – Reflections on Patriotism by Dan Rather
By Jim Heffernan I found this book of essays very enjoyable. There are 16 essays, each extolling a particular aspect of a broad topic and each aspect seems to be somehow diminished…