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What I read and why
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Andrew Marvell!
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Our book today - the last in our batch of what turned out to be mostly very superannuated musty old biographies cleared out of church baseme...
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Monday, November 28, 2011
Coke of Norfolk and His Friends!
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Our book today is a hefty two-volume life of the 1st Earl of Leicester (of Holkham, that is), Thomas William Coke by that unsinkable Edwardi...
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Friday, November 25, 2011
Charles Lamb and the Lloyds!
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Our book today is a little thing from 1898, Charles Lamb and the Lloyds by E. V. Lucas, and it illustrates how little has ever been needed ...
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Comics: yet another X-Men #1!
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Deafened still by the ongoing kettle-drum of DC Comics' "New 52" media phenomenon, I almost missed Marvel Comics' recent r...
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
William Hickling Prescott!
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Our book today is Roger Wolcott's gigantic 1925 volume The Correspondence of William Hickling Prescott, 1833-1847, featuring not only he...
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Geographica: Tigers!
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By now it should hardly need saying that every issue of National Geographic is wonder-park of astonishment (or words, you know, to that ef...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Anne McCaffrey
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A generation of fantasy readers soared on the wings of her dragons. Rest in Peace.
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Monday, November 21, 2011
Emma, Lady Hamilton!
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Our book today is Emma, Lady Hamilton , a big fat 1905 volume by steadfast biographer Walter Sichel, who spends an eager amount of time at t...
Meanwhile, in the Penny Press ...
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It looks like Santa isn't too fond of the ultra-photogenic Tommy Hilfiger crowd, if we can judge by the steaming pile of you-know-what h...
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
Bess of Hardwick and Her Circle!
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Our book today is from 1910: Bess of Hardwick and Her Circle by Mrs. Matilda Carbury - I beg your pardon, Mrs. Stepney Rawson, a bustling l...
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