Short Stories Surprise
My high school in the early 1960s, (Poly, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute) was trapped in love with Old English novels
Tag: Books Read
Goodreads and Book Snapshots
Forgetting Stories In the summers between college semesters (about 1970), I discovered that if I read a novel and don't write anything down about it, in a few months or a year, all specifics of…
Stone Age in New Guinea
It has always gnawed at me—why are aborigine societies discovered in South America, the Pacific Islands, Australia, and New Zealand so primitive? New Guinea 1885 Jared Diamond’s explanation in Guns, Germs, and Steel is that…
An Empire of Wealth. John Steele Gordon
Subtitle: The Epic History of American Economic Power by John Steele Gordon. Published 2004. I like to read economic texts that are not fresh off-the-press. It gives a chance to see how prescient, how well-grounded…
Reading for Ethics in Literature
This class starts in a couple of weeks. Although I took a couple of philosophy classes back in the seventies at UMBC, where we discussed ethics, there the readings were abstract and the examples were…
Magazines and Anthologies with Short Stories
I noticed the other day when I posted a snapshot of 'Buffalo Girls' that it was the first novel I'd read in 4 months.
Story or Essay
Diem Perdidi by Julie Otsuka Just read this in 2012 American Short Stories. Not really a story.
Christine Falls
Christine Falls by Benjamin Black A friend, Mary, recommended this mystery to me and I'm glad to have read it.
Grand Pursuit by Sylvia Naser
Subtitle—The Story of Economic GeniusI’m about ¾ finished. Too much biographic detail of various economic giants. This gives context economic problems arose in, but too much biography obstructing the view of the theory for my…