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Must be Robert Montgomery’s birthday today. (Goes to pro.imdb.com to look it up.) Nope, not his birthday today. However, Turner Classic Movies is definitely having a Robert Montgomery morning. Up now is Yellow Jack, the story of Dr. Walter Reed. These b & w movies are wonderful — so very relaxing not to have to … Continue reading Movies, and whatever else today
I’m about to help my son with his homework, since he has a learning disability and can’t read very fast. I love my son and I love helping him with his homework. Unfortunately, it’s for a history seminar I’m starting to think of as “Jew-haters and How They Grew”: it’s focusing on Hitler and Stalin. … Continue reading Tonight's reading
The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2), Neal Stephenson Perdido Street Station, China Miéville Twenty-One Stories, S. Y. Agnon Darkly Dreaming Dexter : A Novel, Jeff Lindsay Rae asked before to let her know how I liked the new Alexander McCall Smith book, starring Isabel Dalhousie, his new heroine. Didn’t like it much, and so … Continue reading Other reading. October, 2004.
Finally finished . It’s the excellent sort of history book that keeps you going through what would be rough road under a more “ordinary” historian. Antisemitism and moral relativism also firmly and completely put into place. Worth reading, if you are looking for a history book.
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