If you know the term grok, then you have either read this book or know somebody who has, or of course know somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody… I would have said I had not read this one of Heinlein’s. I would have been wrong. It’s the weirdest thing. Because I definitely read it, […]
Written back in May: Down to the wire with the Boy, all we are currently doing is reading some short stories and essays together – about half an hour to 45 minutes in a day, and his father is reading a chapter of Proverbs with him at night (this is in addition to the schooling […]
I read fewer books in August than I have previous months of this year for a couple reasons. I tried to read more nonfiction, and nonfiction slows me down. I started volunteering at the high school every day. I work in the library and supervise the study halls, which are mostly in the library. To […]
Murder on the Blackboard, a Hildegard Withers story, I like these, but I think mainly it’s because they are set in another time, a time I do not altogether miss (the cops sometimes rough up a suspect, and Hildegard encourages that). Hildegard Withers is a strict spinster schoolmarm. The historical touches amuse me. Sharpe’s […]
CHAPTER III – ON ANIMAL LIFE (CONTINUED) We constantly speak of animals as free. A fish, says Ruskin, “is much freer than a Man; and as to a fly, it is a black incarnation of freedom.” It is pleasant to think of anything as free, but in this case the idea is, I fear, to […]
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