In the middle of...The Man from Mars by Fred Nadis

Looks like a good one...The Beginners Guide to Running Away From Home by Jennifer Huget

next up...Le Corbusier architect and feminist

Just about the start...Permanent President Tense

looks great...The Ocean at the end of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

Next up...The Woman Upstairs

 Messud's scorching social anatomy, red-hot psychology, galvanizing story, and incandescent language make for an all-circuits-firing novel about enthrallment, ambition, envy, and betrayal. A tour de force  Booklist Reviews 2013 March #2

The Book in Question..Tocqueville

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JUNE 2013

The aristocracy in democracy

by Harvey Mansfield

A review of Tocqueville: The Aristocratic Sources of Liberty by Lucien Jaume,Arthur Goldhammer

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In 2008, The French critic Lucien Jaume published an interpretation of Alexis de Tocqueville that won a prize from the Académie Française. An English version by the eminent translator Arthur Goldhammer has now appeared, which is a second recommendation. The book’s subtitle, “The Aristocratic Sources of Liberty,” reveals that it takes up a worthy and understudied topic in today’s theorizing about democracy—which amounts to a third recommendation. To put it more plainly and aggressively: Can a democracy sustain itself without the help of its rival, apparently its enemy, aristocracy?

M. Jaume does not raise this question directly. His book studies Tocqueville through Tocqueville’s French contemporaries. On the basis of a letter in which Tocqueville says that, in writing Democracy in America, he always had his own country in mind, M. Jaume conclude ...

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Just about to start...Polo

Very Good...American Isis

Next Up! The Architecture of Madness

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Very Good...Harvard Square by Andre Aciman

Just finished The Outcasts of 19 Schuler Place by E.L. Konigsburg

Looking foward to this...Dean Koontz Innocence

Looks Great...Quote from NY Times Book Review The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud

It’s exhilarating to encounter such unrestrained vehemence in a work by this controlled, intellectual author. Messud’s previous novels, albeit extraordinarily intelligent and well-crafted, are characterized by rationed or distant emotion. “The Woman Upstairs” is utterly different — its language urgent, its conflicts outsize and unmooring, its mood incendiary. This psychologically charged story feels like a liberation. Messud’s prose grabs the reader by the collar, just as Nora grabs her favorite new pupil, a third grader named Reza Shahid, when he and another boy scuffle during a field trip. Reading Nora’s turbulent testament of belief and betrayal, you feel less like a spectator than a witness.

Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore a review from PW Reviews

Like all questing heroes, Clay takes on more than he bargained for and learns more than he expected, not least about himself. His story is an old-fashioned tale likably reconceived for the digital age, with the happy message that ingenuity and friendship translate across centuries and data platforms. Agent: Sarah Burnes, the Gernert Company. (Oct.)

I want to be Vita Sackville-West girlfriend!

What does an American Aristocrat look like?

Airman First Class Vanessa Dobos Vanessa Dobos is a gunner of a USAF AC-130 gunship. She has seen action in Iraq and Afghanistan. She likes long walks on the beach, men who are not afraid to cry and puppies.

Her dislikes include feed tray stoppages, tracer flareout of her NVGs and premature fixed-wing strikes scattering her high-value targets.

Dancing in Amsterdam, where throngs of people, most dressed in orange, celebrated the monarchy. The day was a mix of tightly choreographed pageantry and boisterous street parties.

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What's the Difference between the Aristocratic and the merely Expensive?

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This is Good,not PC How Children Succeed by Paul Tough

Who can resist this? The Astor Orphan by Alexandre Aldrich

 Aldrich provides a fascinating, if voyeuristic peek behind the rotting silk curtains in one of America's aristocratic families' home. Seriously? It made this reader want to hop in a car and poke around Rokeby herself. (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC(more)

 Rokeby to a generation of impoverished, disorderly parasites, alcoholics, and madmen. Her own father, called Teddy, a Harvard-educated handyman, PW Reviews 2012 December #4

Good,but complicated ending... The Perfect Ghost by Linda Barnes

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Currently reading Speaking From Among the Bones by Alan Bradley

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The Beauty of the Husband is one book by Anne Carson

What would an American Aristocrat look like?

Anne Carson

Maybe this is my next book...On the Aesthetic Education of Man by Friedrich Schiller

Reading now How to Lead A Life of Crime by Kirsten Miller

What I.m reading now...C.S. Lewis by Alister McGrath

Aristocracy And The Meaning Of Class Rule” by Philippe Mairet, first published in 1931.

“Aristocracy is here considered as an inherent principle in the structure of any society. The writer contends that the age of democracy is only a phase of social evolution and that the conception of democracy is inadequate to create or sustain a politico-social state. This theme is illustrated by extensive references to the movements of history and closes with a prospect of social renewal through an aristocratic movement, based upon a synthesis of all sciences and directed towards world-development and organisation.”

From the book:Anger is precious. A silverback uses anger to maintain order and warns his troop of danger. When my father beats his chest, it was to say, Beware, listen, I am in charge. I am angry to protect you, because that is what I was born to do. Here is my domain, there is no one to protect."

What i'm reading now: Inside Rehab by Anne M. Fletcher

Just Started... Shepherds of Coyote Rocks by Cat Urbigkit

Just put on reserve...Along with "Crash" Miracles of Life by J.G. Bllard

Want to read this...Sara Levine Treasure Island!!!

A very good book about the art world... The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro

Who is attracted to The American Monarchy Party?

his sympathy for the agents themselves, generally categorised by one handler as ‘vain, moody and introspective’, but here shown to be complex individuals of exceptional courage and moving vulnerability, among them the extraordinary Lily Sergeyev, who in anguish at the death of her dog came close to betraying herself and the entire double cross operation from a review of "Doublecross" the story of the D-day spies,in The Spectator.

Wow, really looking forward to this The Darkness Dwellers by Kirsten Miller

Just Started,very good Listening to Madeleine bu Leonard S.Marcus

Just Finishing...The Splindlers by Lauren Oliver

book review of Angelology,

One of my favorites...Angelology by Danielle Trusson