by bertbaby | Oct 19, 2013 | Book Reviews
October 19: “I never knew my mother till I was twenty-one. I act like a gent but I am wonderfully badly born. My father was a confidence trickster and a jailbird.”
by bertbaby | Oct 18, 2013 | Book Reviews
October 18: “To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.”
by bertbaby | Oct 17, 2013 | Book Reviews
October 17: “Soviet authorities must have been baffled by this kid from Brooklyn who marched toward them inexplicably, like the force of capitalism itself. Worse, he became popular in Russia,…”
by bertbaby | Oct 16, 2013 | Book Reviews
Classic reading about the October Classic.
by bertbaby | Oct 16, 2013 | Book Reviews
An irreverent scholar’s take-no-prisoners approach to antiquity.
by bertbaby | Oct 16, 2013 | Book Reviews
Belowstairs with the Bennets. Jo Baker’s servants-eye-view of Pride & Prejudice uncovers a yearning love story in the lives of those who invisibly attend Austen’s upper-crust lovers.
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