Trent Reedy

No. Sorry. I do not.

People look left and right, but they rarely look up!

David McCullough books are awesome. The Wright Brothers were awesome. McCullough's book "The Wright Brothers" is awesome. It's interesting to see the many different titles, subtitles, and cover schemes considered for this book. In the end, they went with the more subdued version in the lower right. Amazing stuff. You might even say it is awesome.

LOD. Calos Salazar in Portugal cannot be stopped! The whole room is booktown central WITH....awesome lighting. Every home in America should have a dedicated library room. "All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do." —Leo Tolstoy, 9 September 1828—20 November 1910. "Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly." —Ibid. "People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little." —James Hilton, English author, 9 September 1900—20 December 1954. "A good book isn’t written. It’s rewritten." —Phyllis A. Whitney, mystery writer, 9 September 1903—8 February 2008. "You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning. Like any other artist you must learn your craft—then you can add all the genius you like." —Ibid. "For any artistic person who creates imaginary people, the art is like inhabiting the life and mind of a seven-year-old child with imaginary friends and imaginary events and imaginary grace and imaginary tragedy." —Bob Shacochis, born 9 September 1951. “You’re a coward and a liar and a—" —Bart Sibrel, who lured astronaut Buzz Aldrin to a location on the false pretense of him doing an interview for a children's show, and then energetically denied the moon landing, interrupted when 72 year old Aldrin punched him, 9 September 2002. Listen to good music. Read great books. Keep your eyes on the sparrow.

Listen to good music. Read great books. Keep your eyes on the sparrow.

Where did your reading rank in 2023? Assuming the rate holds for 2024, how are you reading this year?

Listen to good music. Read great books. Keep your eyes on the sparrow.

Brave men saved the world from German National Socialism. It is our duty to make sure history never forgets The Greatest Generation.

It's been a long climb to get to this point, but my new middle grade novel HUNTER'S CHOICE will be published March 2, 2021. It's a fun outdoor sporting life adventure novel.

I’m on a mission to read a biography of every American president in order of presidential service.  Four biographies a year.  GRANT was fantastic.  I learned so much.  A great man.

My thirteenth book of 2020. This book terrified me when I first read it. I was on a weekend pass from the Army in Texas, where I'd been training with my unit to go to Afghanistan. And this book is all about the futility of an occupying army's effort to subdue a people. THE MOON IS DOWN (1942) is clever war propaganda meant to motivate people in countries occupied by Nazis. While I don't identify with Nazis, as I read the book, I did identify with an army of occupation. I was pleased to learn later that our mission in Afghanistan was liberation and reconstruction, not occupation and exploitation. While the soliders in this book are looked upon by the people with hatred and suspicion, we got along well with the Afghans, working with them to improve their lives and fight the Taliban we all hated. On election day in Farah, Afghanistan an line of Afghan voters down the block waved and shouted "Thank you! Thank you!" Such a scene was impossible in this book, or in the events that inspired it. A fantastic book!

LOD. It's a Reedyfact™ that people have been waiting up all night to finally get a glimpse of the inside of Atlantis Books on Santorini Island off Greece. Well, wait no more, my friends! Behold the wonder of books.

Atlantis Books on Santorini Island off Greece down the stairs approaching the entrance to the store. A little bookstore foreplay for you.