Monthly Bookpost, May 2016
"Restraint of Passion: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, by David Hume Had every man sufficient sagacity to perceive at all times the strong interest which binds him to the observations...
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Geek SuperGoddess: You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost), by Felicia Day I started throwing in other characters from other books into my headspace, and pretty soon I'd built an imaginary town...
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Going Overbard: Fool, by Christopher Moore "It's true, you git! Your mother was a poxy whore!""Beggin' your pardon, sir, but poxiness isn't so bad", said Shanker Mary, shining a ray of optimism on...
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Run, Forest, Run! Uprooted, by Naomi Novik Our dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travellers passing through....
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Farewell to Rousseau: Reveries of a Solitary Walker, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Of all the places I have lived (and I have lived in some charming ones), none has made me so genuinely happy nor left me...
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Shit White Guys Say: The Life of Samuel Johnson, by James Boswell He received me very courteously; but, it must be confessed, that his apartment, and furniture, and morning dress, were sufficiently...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, November 2016
Shit Happens: Bellwether, by Connie Willis Mood Rings (1975)--Jewelry fad consisting of a ring set with a large "stone" that was actually a temperature-sensitive liquid crystal/ Mood rings supposedly...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, December 2017
HAMILTON: THE BOOK! The Federalist Papers, by Alexander Hamilton feat. James Madison & John Jay It has often given me pleasure to observe, that Independent America was not composed of detached and...
View ArticleMonthly Book Post, January 2017
2017 is my tenth year of writing monthly book posts, and my seventh in going through Great Books Through History. This year will focus on the first part of the 19th century, with literature by Jane...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, February 2017
The 19th Century Murders: A Dangerous Mourning and Defend and Betray, by Anne Perry; Mrs. Jeffries Takes a Second Look, by Emily Brightwell; Fever Season, by Barbara Hambly "If you don't know the...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost: March 2017
Fanny and Fanciness: Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen "You have disappointed every expectation I had formed, and have proved yourself a character the very reverse of what I had supposed. For I HAD,...
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The Philosophy of Oscar the Grouch: The World as Will and Idea, by Arthur Schopenhauer If we should bring clearly to a man's sight the terrible sufferings and miseries to which his life is constantly...
View ArticleMonthly Book Post, May 2017
Towards a Socialist America: Our Revolution, by Bernie Sanders Today, it would take a minimum-wage worker an entire year to earn enough to cover the average annual in-state tuition at a public...
View ArticleMonthly Book Post, June 2017
Rot and Rochester: Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte Bessie, when she heard this narrative, sighed and said, "Poor Miss Jane is to be pitied too, Abbot.""Yes," responded Abbot, "if she were a nice,...
View ArticleMonthly Book Post, July 2017
Cathy and Catharsis: Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte I had a peep at a dirty, ragged, black-haired child, big enough to both walk and talk--indeed, its face looked older than Catherine's--yet, when...
View ArticleMonthly Book Post, August 2017
Ale and Alienation: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Bronte ‘I beg your pardon, Mrs. Graham—but you get on too fast. I have not yet said that a boy should be taught to rush into the snares of...
View ArticleMonthly Book Post, September 2017
Blacklegs and Bluestockings: Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte"You name me leopardess; remember, the leopardess is tameless," said she."Tame or fierce, wild or subdued, you are MINE.""I am glad I know my...
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Mary and Marriageability: Mary Barton, by Elizabeth Gaskell "If my child lies dying (as poor Tom lay, with his white wan lips quivering, for want of better food than I could give him), does the rich...
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Literary Leviathan: Moby Dick, by Herman Melville Is it not a saying in every one's mouth, Possession is half of the law: that is, regardless of how the thing came into possession? But often possession...
View ArticleMonthly Book Post, December 2017
They Went Low, We Went High: What Happened, by Hillary Rodham ClintonJust look at don Blankenship, the coal boss who joined the protest against me on his way to prison. In recent years, even as the...
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