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More odds and ends

The Hummingbird's Gift by Sy Montgomery

Stitches by Anne Lamott

Poetic Justice by Amanda Cross

Insurrecto by Gina Apostelo

The Grass Dancer by Susan Power

The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Goodbye Columbus by Philip Roth

August 13, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Hummingbird’s Gift – 4/5 Stars Mostly a published long essay, but still a compelling story about hummingbirds in general, but specifically those hummingbirds that become abandoned, injured, lost, or otherwise in need of human care to be rehabilitated and brought up to health enough to be part of natural life again. In this book, we find out that hummingbirds exist upon a series of contrasts. They are quite small, but fierce fighters. In the descriptions of the fighting from this book, two birds locked […]

Conscientious Objections – Neil Postman (1988)

Conscientious Objections by Neil Postman

July 31, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I keep looking for Neil Postman chapters and essays to present to high school students, and man if he doesn’t pepper nearly every single one of them with just something a little too close to the line for my own good. I don’t mind the outdated references because we can bring those up to date, and I don’t mind the religious imagery, because those are interesting. His casual use of old school references to mental illness, his bad habit for casual political digs at conservatives […]

Clockers – Richard Price (1992)

Clockers by Richard Price

July 31, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This was one of those books that I read on a vacation. I started on a train and the first page had me just the slightest bit discombobulated because of the strangeness of some of the details, but as soon as I picked up the rhythm, the book took off. I ended up reading the first 400 pages in one go on the train. Richard Price is one of the writers for the wire, and I think he’s clearly one of the architects as well, […]

Dragonlance Ret-Chronicles

Shadow and Light by Paul Thompson and Tonya Cook

Kendermore by Mary Kirchoff

The Brothers Majere by Kevin Stein

Riverwind the Plainsman by Paul Thompson and Tonya Cook

Flint the King by Mary Kirchoff and Douglas Niles

Tanis: The Shadow Years by Barbara Siegel and Scott Siegel

Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

Dragons of the Winter Night by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

Dragons of Spring Dawning by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

July 31, 2021 by vel veeter 1 Comment

CBR13Bingo – Old Series! So I am calling these the ret-chronicles because there’s some reverse engineering happening here storywise. This happens a few ways. For one, certain events and knowledge that would have been really important and useful in the War of the Lance, appears here in this books, but not in the main novels. And sometimes this forgetting is dealt with and sometimes not. For another, no one talks about most of these things in the main novels and it seems like some of […]

The Floating Opera – John Barth (1956)

The Floating Opera by John Barth

July 26, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Back in 2006 or so I found a copy of this book (well, the double edition with The End of the Road) at the Baltimore Book Thing and read The Floating Opera soon thereafter. I didn’t know very much about John Barth (I mean I still don’t actually) but I remember reading his introduction and how he sees his novels functioning in pairs — The Floating Opera/The End of the Road being that first combination. Anyway, I thought “huh, neat! I will read both of […]

The Guns of August – Barbara Tuchman (1962)

The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman

July 25, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

As Barbara Tuchman tells us in the intro, this book spawned from two previous books of hers: Bible and Sword (which I haven’t read) and The Zimmerman Telegram (which I have). She previously only wanted to focus on an even narrower focus, but her publisher, who essentially commissioned the book, really wanted a book about the battle of Mons. She decided that focusing on the various maneuvers in the two decades previous to the war, and then on the first month, August of 1914, she […]

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