Reading Bernadette McDonald’s “Winter 8000” There are too many names and facts to fully process in Bernadette McDonald’s Winter 8000. By the end of the first couple of chapters, my head was dizzy trying to keep it all straight. But regardless of the climbers’ names, or the 8000-meter peak they climbed, there is a recurring…
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Reading “The White Mountain”
The biggest problem I had with Dan Szczesny’s book, The White Mountain: Rediscovering Mount Washington’s Hidden Culture, is that it introduced me to so many cool people, I could hardly get through a page before I had to google someone or buy their book. After it led me to buy my second book—a collection from…
Reading “White Mountains State”
I know I say I don’t really do book reviews, but here I am, finding myself reporting on another one only a week or so after reviewing The Beauty of Ordinary Things. But I can’t help myself. If there’s a book I like—especially if it shines a light on the mountains of New Hampshire like…
Lessons From AMC Awards, Signings, and More
I ended my spring “book tour” of 4000s by 40 last weekend, with a book signing at The Country Bookseller in Wolfeboro, NH. If you haven’t been, it’s a great bookstore with a terrific owner. Three other local authors joined the signing…