Monthly Archives: September 2013
The Value of Education…
At the same time that my wife Lea Booth picked up the copy of Nan which I reviewed earlier, I stumbled upon a copy of a book that had special memories for me. I first read Hans Brinker, or the Silver … Continue reading
How to Be Good…
Attempting to explain young adult (called in earlier incarnations “youth”) literature is consuming work even for scholars. So when my wife Lea stumbled across a Harper & Brothers youth book, Nan by a rather mysterious author named Lucy C. Lillie, a first edition … Continue reading
A Mind of the South…
I was in a local antique shop a few weeks ago and came across, lying on a school desk from the 1940’s, a small volume with slight water damage . I picked it up (as I am wont to do with any … Continue reading
The Old World Order…
This entry from the extended 2013 reading list is one of those books that probably only an academic could love. Georges Duby‘s The Three Orders (Les Trois Ordres ou L’imaginaire du féodalisme) or, as the great historian calls it in … Continue reading
The Extended 2013 Reading List…
I’ve been mentioning the additions to my 2013 reading list in my recent entries and I realized that I have never given readers a list of the books I have used to extend my original list. The books have been picked … Continue reading
Bearded Women by Teresa Milbrodt…A Book Review
“The cyclops woman squints at them, those who deem themselves unlovely, and knows that no one would look at them twice in a crowd.” – “The Cyclops” by Teresa Milbrodt… We live in an age of integration. We mainstream, accommodate, and … Continue reading
O Lost…
Another addition to my long since temporarily abandoned 2013 reading list (I do have two more books, one a group of Dickens’ Christmas Tales and Jane Austen’s Emma, from that original list which I will review in December per my original plan) this time. … Continue reading
The New Southern Gentleman 