Monthly Archives: December 2011
“The Comanches were kind of like the Spartans. Because of their incredible military mastery, which derived from the horse — they were the prototype horse tribe, the tribe that could do more with the horse than any other tribe could.” S. C. Gwynne
So on the longest day of the year I am reading “The Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history” S. C. Gwynne which was a … Continue reading
Brown Baggers 2012 Book Selections
Despite the number of great titles our Book Baggers group has read in the past, there is definitely no shortage of new books we’d like to tackle next. Our group recently held our December meeting and didn’t talk about one … Continue reading
Stuck In A Book
I spend a lot of time in front of a computer. When I’m not working, I’m often searching for information about books and reading. A good friend recommended: http://www.stuck-in-a-book.blogspot.com/ Based in the UK, this site is the perfect combination of anglophilia and … Continue reading
“And for those Occupiers who continue to defy police harrassment, I’m going to throw in a few manuals on Arctic survival.” ~ Barbara Ehrenreich in her “Washington Post” article about books and protests.
Protests everywhere. The Mideast, Wall Street, and now Russia. We read that the Occupy movements set up libraries in their “communities” almost immediately. So what would they add to their collections, and what might we donate to such a library … Continue reading
“No, I wonder if, above all, Coach Paterno could not bear to see shame come to his beloved game of football.” – Frank Deford – SI.Com (November 16, 2011).
In early summer I wrote about Roger Angell and his books about baseball. It seems like yesterday that St. Louis won the World Series, and it was yesterday the NBA settled their differences. Now, it’s all football, high school, pro, … Continue reading
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