by Richard Rothman | Jan 2, 2025 | Featured Post, Musings
This is the fourth edition of Books That Moved Me—a tradition dating back to 2016—in which I’ll list the fiction and nonfiction books I’ve liked most since my Books 3 post in January 2023. As in the past, virtually all the books I’ve read have been recommended by a...
by Richard Rothman | Nov 28, 2023 | Musings
A number of people have asked why they haven’t been receiving my blog posts lately (most of you have just been silently relieved). The answer is that for the past few years I’ve been working on a book. It’s about my two grandfathers – Rubin (“Ruby”) Schechter...
by Richard Rothman | Feb 4, 2023 | Musings
Apparently ignited by the plea for “help” in my recent Books 3 post, friends have sent a trove of recommendations that could keep me occupied with great fiction and nonfiction books for years. As I looked over the recommendations–some contained in the Comments...
by Richard Rothman | Jan 4, 2023 | My Two Cents
This is the third, now sort-of triennial, edition of Books that Moved Me. This one includes the novels and non-fiction books that I’ve liked the most since I posted Books 2 in 2020. As in the past, I’ve read virtually all the books on this list based on...
by Richard Rothman | Dec 2, 2022 | Aging
I have a relatively small working vocabulary, and this is probably the first time in my seventy years that I’ve used the word “penultimate.” Google helped me spell it. But I couldn’t think of a better way to describe what’s occasionally been on my mind lately as I’ve...
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