Your Humble Blogger is far out of baseball country, but the All-Star Break is here, and besides I haven’t been reading any other news either, so it’s time for the Hope and Faith report. Now, I don’t actually care very…
Don’t forget that the Tohu Bohu book club is just two weeks away! Better Together: Restoring the American Community will be the topic, and we’ll be discussing the first chapter (and the intro) on or about August 1. I’ll think…
It had been some years since Your Humble Blogger had read 1984 (New York: Penguin I-Don’t-Have-It-with-me), and the references to it were coming thick and fast, and there was the book, so there it was. Many people, particularly on the…
Not that Your Humble Blogger had been tearing up the old blogosphere lately anyway, but travel-time has begun, so do not expect any new posts for three weeks. Mind you, I’m not promising not to write, but I don’t expect…
Your Humble Blogger is in a hurry, but there’s certainly time to note the enjoyment of Louise Marley’s fine book The Maquisarde (New York: Ace 2002). I had read The Glass Harmonica, and more or less liked it, but this…
A better choice for the abortive TohuBohu book club would have been Better Together: Restoring the American Community, by Robert D. Putnam and Lewis M. Feldstein, with Don Cohen (the latter, I’m guessing, actually wrote most of the words in…
YHB had seen the film of The Magic Christian (New York: Bantam 1970) in the days of long-ago youth, but this is the first time I’ve read the Terry Southern book. It’s, um, brilliant? I don’t really know. Like the…
Your Humble Blogger recently recommended “The House on Turk Street” and “The Girl with the Silver Eyes” to an acquaintance, and then realized I haven’t re-read them for years. So, out came my copy of The Continental Op, and that…
Well, Your Humble Blogger has finally finished reading The Meaning of Swarthmore, a collection of 48 essays by alumni, published as a development tool and mailed to all the alums who haven’t told the alumni office to sod off. It’s…
Your Humble Blogger picked up and reread Mary Poppins (NY: Harcourt 1997) whilst visiting friends. I have recently watched the wonderful Disney movie, but the books are my Mary. Julie Andrews does show the vanity, the imperturbability, the dishonesty, and…