Friday, August 7, 2015

in the middle of,:Go Set a Watchman, A Novel by Harper Lee,it's great don't listen to those hypocritical Yankees!


The Language of the Night by Ursula K. Le Guin,on children's books,great!

All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don’t be too scary, and be sure there’s a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.
If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingstone Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book!

Monday, July 13, 2015

Democracy Needs Aristocracy, by Sir Peregrine Worsthorne one of the basic texts of The American Monarchy Party

Aristocracy, however, is different because the bonds forged at birth and maintained at every subsequent stage in life, create a degree of loyalty between members as strong as, if not stronger than, those that bind together the members of a nation. The Old Etonian George Orwell tried to escape them but never wholly succeeded, concluding sadly, at the end of his life, that it was easier to change your party than change your class. Speaking personally, I cannot imagine life without class, which is not a passive condition but one that provides you with a general culture, a network to which you naturally belong, a stream of history in which you feel free and safe — almost a collective individuality. (86)

A SPOOL OF BLUE THREAD By Anne Tyler,a very good Tyler "Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?”




Saturday, May 2, 2015

just put on reserve at NYPL: Mosquitoland by David Arnold

KIRKUS DEC 10, 2014

Arnold pens a stunning debut, showcasing a cast of dynamic characters whose individual struggles are real but not always fully explained, a perfect decision for a book whose timeline is brief. Ultimately, Mim revises moments from her own narrative, offering readers tantalizing glimpses of the adult Mim will eventually become...Mesmerizing. Full Review

about to start: The Making of a Master by Mark Evans a life of John Constable




just finished Our Kids by Robert Putham,similar to Coming Apart by Charles Murray