Trend line going … down
Well, and that was May, was it? 30 entries, 35 comments. Twelve of the 30 are Book Reports, which means this is becoming a Book Report blog, which isn’t what I was aiming for. Must actually blog sometime. The good…
Book Report: Justice Hall
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YHB was just looking for a bathtub book, but it turns out that Justice Hall was a good choice for Memorial Day weekend. I’ve always thought of Memorial Day as for WWI, for no very good reason. I have…
Book Report: The Thrill of the Grass
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Your Humble Blogger is a pretty big W.P. Kinsella fan, so it shouldn’t be at all surprising that I liked the collection The Thrill of the Grass (NY: Penguin 1985). I liked some stories more than others, of course. “The…
Like an actual (we)blog
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Your Humble Reader came across a constantly updated page showing the most recent record entered into Worldcat. It’s kind of hypnotic, and fascinating. When I was watching this morning, I saw a dozen or more that appeared to have their…
Book Report: The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
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YHB has read The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (NY: Avon 1963), by Dorothy L. Sayers, quite a few times, and I’m not quite sure why. I mean, it’s entertaining and all, but as a mystery, or rather as two…
Book Report: Critical Essays on Charles Dickens’s Bleak House
Still on that Bleak House kick, YHB made it the whole way through Critical Essays on Charles Dickens’s Bleak House, a collection of eight essays from varying viewpoints and methods. Or methodologies. Not sure. I’m afraid I am going to…
Duffy says a lot of things! Oh, yeah!
Your Humble Blogger will join in the general and genial mockery of Our Only President. Gentle Readers will no doubt be aware that biking-related program activities briefly felled Our Only President. “It’s been raining a lot and the topsoil is…
Commencing to doubt
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Kind of an interesting op-ed piece in this morning’s Times. Joshua Foer, a new Bachelor at Yale, writes about the reaction of his classmates to 9/11, to the invasion of Afghanistan, the invasion of Iraq, and the current mess. He…
Book Report: Bleak House, A Novel of Connections -and- a proposal for Gentle Readers
Yes, Your Humble Blogger has gone off the deep end about Bleak House. I sought out a “Reader’s Companion”, Bleak House: A Novel of Connections (Boston: Twayne 1990), by Norman Page. I assume the author isn’t the Norman Page who…
Let America be America
There’s been a minor hoo-hah over at Kos about whether or not Sen. Kerry’s new slogan/theme “Let America be America Again” is any good or not. [Note on why YHB will never really be a great blogger: while I was…