Category: Blogs
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “Uncommon Cause: General George Lee Butler”
An uncommonly fascinating memoir of military life. By Randy Kraft We all assume we know something of military life. We’ve seen...
OC Book Blog: “The End of Days” by Jenny Erpenbeck
Too often the great works of other languages to do not come to the English-speaking reader. We miss out on a lot of great fiction and...
Randy Kraft’ OC Book Blog: “Educated” By Tara Westover
By Randy Kraft Tara Westover is a PhD from the School of Hard Knocks. Truth, in this memoir, is definitely stranger than fiction. If...
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “A Sport and a Pastime” by James Salter
A sixties gem you may have missed. By Randy Kraft James Salter is what they call a writer’s writer. He is a master of clarity....
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “The Mars Room” by Rachel Kushner
Rachel Kushner is one of those writers who grab you at once or confound you. Or both. In "The Mars Room," her fourth novel, she grabs you...