So, What Are You Reading?

Oops, my bad.

 

As I've probably said before, my favourite book as a kid, 60-odd years ago, was Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame. In recent years there have been several (legit) "sequels" by other writers - notably William Horwood, who has written four:

The Willows in Winter
Toad Triumphant
The Willows and Beyond
The Willows at Christmas

I have all of these.

Yesterday, I bought Return to the Willows by Jacqueline Kelly - and finished it today. Same characters as Grahame's (with additions) but neither author is anything like Grahame in writing style, although (I think) Horwood tries hard to make his work sound like Grahame's. 100+ years later, I still enjoy the 1908 original the most. However, I do like Jacqueline Kelly's story lines and character portrayal somewhat more than Horwood's - but that's a purely personal observation. Her writing is not like Grahame's, but is true in spirit to the original. A real pleasure.

J.

 

Read Jerrell H. Shofner's Nor Is It Over Yet: Florida in the Era of Reconstruction, 1863-1877.

 

Two-for-a-dollar, today.

Picked up:

Poland - James Michener
Just say Nu - Michael Wex. "Yiddish for every occasion, when English simply won't do." Instructive and wickedly funny!

ויסגעצייכנט אַרבעט
(Oysgetseykhnt arbet!)
Great work!

J.

 

Bought today - 90 cents:

Cabins - David and Jeanie Stiles. Wonderful book. I've wanted an A-frame since 1966. Hmm - maybe I'd better get busy about now... :smile:

I'm halfway through Poland by James Michener. I've had a thing for Polish language and culture for a couple of years. Co za świetna książka! (What a great book!)

J.

 

Ditto - I'll have to look for that one

 

finished reading Alan Natali's Woody's Boys.

 

Indian Buddhist Philosophy by Amber Carpenter, 2014, Routledge.

https://www.amazon.com/Indian-Buddhist-Philosophy-Ancient-Philosophies/dp/184465298X

 

The Train To Crystal City by Jan Jarboe Russell. The author will be at HCC-Central College Thursday at 11 am. I would love to go, but dissertation chair meeting at 10 forgoes it. Sigh.

 

Travels to the House of Invention - Norval Morrisseau / Kinsman Robinson Galleries.

"Perhaps the greatest Native artist who ever lived." Yes, indeed. Been a fan for many years. Norval died in 2007. Local public Art Gallery has over 100 of his works. I have a couple of cheap reproductions, and I treasure them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norval_Morrisseau

J.

 

Read George W. Bush's 41: A Portrait of My Father.

 

12 books to read when you're in your 20s (somehow I missed a few)

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/24/books/review/12-books-to-read-in-your-20s.html?_r=1

 

Long Past Slavery: Representing Race in the Federal Writers' Project by Catherine A. Stewart

 

Read Christopher Andersen's George and Laura: Portrait of an American Marriage.

 

It is a bit late for me, this list.

 

Platform

Platform by Michael Hyatt. A step by step guide for anyone who has something to say or sell.

 

Read Digest of Ohio Motor Vehicle Laws.

 

I was jonesing pretty bad - hadn't bought a book in nearly a week. :shock: Thrift Store saved me, yet again. I was pretty shaky when I eagerly forked over ninety cents for a mint copy of:

Green Architecture - James Wines.

Wonderful! It would be worth 90 cents just to stand at the shelves and leaf through some of the pictures. I just love it!

J.

 

What brought that on, Ted? Fighting a ticket? Or should I (not) be asking?

J.