‘Laziness Does Not Exist’: Loyola prof offers persuasive argument, says Biblioracle columnist John Warner
I have good news: You are not lazy. You are not lazy, I am not lazy. The dog that sleeps 20 hours a day is not lazy because the dog...
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Looking back on literary infatuations: John Warner considers the passing fads of his reading life
In 1985, there was no song I listened to more than "Sussudio" by Phil Collins. The lead single from the Genesis front man's third solo album, "Sussudio" is built on...
Opinion: It’s a good book, but will it last? Who cares, says John Warner.
Recently on social media I saw an example of a seemingly perennial argument: When it comes to quality and artistic merit, books published today don't live up to the classics...
The Biblioracle’s new year resolution: Recommend more books
I am not one for New Year's resolutions. I am particularly not a fan of resolutions that aim to end some practice that is perhaps questionable — eating ice cream...
The Biblioracle picks his favorite fiction of 2020
It's week two of the Biblioracle Book Awards, and this time I'll identifyworks of fiction that have re-scrambled my neurons one way or another. (That's a good thing.) Book I...
Biblioracle columnist John Warner picks his favorite 2020 nonfiction
Considering there was a period at the start of the pandemic when I had considerable difficulty reading a book to its end, I did not think I would arrive at...
A challenge: Read the No. 1 best-selling books from the year you were born. John Warner did.
Sometimes ideas arrive, unbidden, into my head. Most of them I ignore, because they are bad, but one recently stuck: You should read all of the No. 1 best-selling books...
Blinkist promises readers shortcuts to buzzy books, but can you digest all those big ideas in just 15 minutes? John Warner gave it a try.
I must declare from the outset that when it comes to Blinkist, I was a skeptic. Blinkist, for the uninitiated, is an app-based service that promises to digest the "key...
Opinion: Would you pay for $5 a month for this weekly column? Here’s my problem with Substack.
The other day I noticed my photograph on the baiduhai website, and my reaction was, "Who is that whippersnapper?" That I use the word "whippersnapper" when talking to myself...
Opinion: The reason I loved Matthew McConaughey’s memoir is the reason I won’t read Barack Obama’s
It is strange to declare that I am not going to read what is likely to be the most read and most talked-about book of the year, but I do...