Lincoln Reviewing The Troops As YouTube Video1 In my previous post, Madeleines From Reading Team Of Rivals, I discussed two passages which impressed me by presenting information already known to me in a way that provided new insights. Today, however, I focus on two events that I discovered for the first time in Team of [...]
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More Madeleines From Reading Team Of Rivals
April 18th, 2008 · Comments Off · Madeleines
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Madeleines From Reading Team Of Rivals
April 17th, 2008 · Comments Off · Fascinations, Madeleines
Goodwin’s Gimmick I admit that, prior to reading Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, I harbored the suspicion that the book’s focus on Lincoln’s seduction and subsequent manipulation/enhancement – in the name of the Union cause – of three of his former competitors for the presidential nomination (New York [...]
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Madeleines From "If On A Winter's Night A Traveler"
May 29th, 2007 · Comments Off · Madeleines
From Summer Reading List to Re-reading If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler This post began as a list of recommendations for summer reading. As I was writing an introduction, I recalled that the opening paragraphs of Italo Calvino’s If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler addressed the same issue – preparing to read a [...]
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Madeleines – And Hong Kong Egg Cakes – From Reading About Alice By Calvin Trillin
March 28th, 2007 · Comments Off · Madeleines, Media
Calvin Trillin’s About Alice is the most joyous, rewarding, resonant prose I’ve ever read about the death of a loved one. It is a glorious book that anyone who has been or wants to be in love deserves to read.
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Madeleines From Reading Bird By Bird By Anne Lamott
November 5th, 2006 · Comments Off · Madeleines
Exploring Julie’s Office I found a copy of Anne Lamott’s Bird By Bird during one of my intermittent attempts to reorganize Julie’s Office, the room in our home where Julie1 wrote, paid bills, did bookkeeping, emailed her friends, read, and gazed out the windows into the woods behind the house. And, although it was little [...]
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Madeleines From Reading Back When We Were Grownups
October 18th, 2006 · Comments Off · Madeleines
The Timing Less than three years after Julie died,1 I read Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler. While it would be too much to say that it changed my life or even that it triggered a change, it certainly illuminated the process. It’s Not The First Line We may as well get this [...]
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Goldwater: In Your Heart You Knew He Was Mr. Right
September 29th, 2006 · Comments Off · Madeleines
DrHGuy On Goldwater On Goldwater I caught CC Goldwater on The Daily Show, pimping Goldwater On Goldwater, her kinda-sorta documentary about her grandfather, Barry Goldwater. Having harbored an admiration for the man since his run for president when I was in high school, I tuned in to the HBO special – and I’m glad I [...]
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Books About Houses: A Handful Of Madeleines
August 29th, 2006 · Comments Off · Fascinations, Madeleines, Media
Five books recommended for anyone who is buying a house, who already owns a house, who lives, has lived or might someday live in a house, who has ever played house, … Why Read About Building Houses? First, none of these books falls in the Do-It-Yourself Project genre. Nor are they polemical tracts about ecologically [...]
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Saturday Is Not Just The Day After Friday
August 26th, 2006 · Comments Off · Madeleines
The word “weekend,” which started life as the grammatically correct “week-end,” lost its hyphen somewhere along the way, ceasing to be merely the end of the week and acquiring, instead, an autonomous and sovereign existence. From Waiting For The Weekend by Witold Rybeczynski
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