The orphan train movement “transported a reported two hundred thousand children from the East Coast to the Midwest between 1854 and 1929.” (273) Somewhere, at some point, I heard about Orphan Train (2013) by Christina Baker Kline and I apparently decided it should be on my reading list. For reasons I cannot remember, I thought that this book was about shipping children from London to the countryside during World War II. I’m not sure if I’m confusing it with another book, or if I just […]
He was so much more…
Where Men Win Glory takes it’s title from a translation of the Iliad – “Who among mortal men are you, good friend? Since / never before have I seen you in the fighting where / men win glory, yet now you have come striding far / out in front of all others in your great heart…” I don’t think that the parallel to Achilles is particularly apt. Achilles desired to win glory for himself whereas Pat Tillman never seemed to care for glory. Nevertheless, it […]
Good Night, Mr. Tom – Review #12 for AamilTheCamel
A poignant tale of the discovery of love.
A Look into the Personal Life of a Political Man
Anyway, this was a very approachable book to Marx’s life and to an extent, Friedrich Engels and Jenny Marx. I definitely appreciated that this wasn’t very dry, and that it was a relatively engaging read. However, I felt like I wanted something deeper. I think the author did a good job of explaining what Marx was doing and how his life progressed, but I am not sure I always understood the why. Why did this middle class German who was connected to aristocracy by marriage […]
No, It’s Not Just the Dresses
I fell in love with Jane Austen sometime around 1996. I think the first time I read one of her books was when it was assigned my sophomore year of high school, and I’m pretty sure it was Pride and Prejudice but it may have been Sense and Sensibility. I’m just not sure anymore. In the intervening years I have consumed all six of her major novels, getting the final one read last year, and have partaken in many, but certainly not all, of the […]
Confederates in the Attic
Quick Synopsis: A writer travels through the south to explore attitudes about the Civil War Quick Review: A well-written account of southern uniqueness and Civil War history, worth it for anyone with an interest in the war or just southern quirks in general
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