mitchellporter on My Christmas Gift to YouDecember 21, 2025
I wasn't aware that Amazon does this, but googling 'amazon deleted book reviews' reveals that it's a thing they do…
oldcowboy3 on Q&A about the Literature CurriculumDecember 21, 2025
Hmmm, okay, Kid, if O'Brian's Aubrey is too adult, or too male, perhaps Sutcliffe's Eagle of the Ninth ;-D
Clarissa on My Christmas Gift to YouDecember 20, 2025
And after all this, Amazon destroyed my book reviews since 2002. What sense does that even make?
Anonymous on My Christmas Gift to YouDecember 20, 2025
well I just ordered myself a different book you recommended some time ago (private citizens) but my first book for…
Demotrash on Q&A about the Literature CurriculumDecember 20, 2025
Also, let's note that I loved Little Women, proceeded to read probably 10 Louisa May Alcott books afterwards...and the present…
Demotrash on Q&A about the Literature CurriculumDecember 20, 2025
If you were an adult the first time you read it, definitely too old.
Ed Frey on My Christmas Gift to YouDecember 20, 2025
It will be a few weeks before I get to this book but your recommendations have been good in the…
Clarissa on Q&A about the Literature CurriculumDecember 20, 2025
I was probably way too old when I read Little Women. That must be why I hated it.
Clarissa on My Christmas Gift to YouDecember 20, 2025
I usually love your recommendations, so I'll try it, thank you!
Clarissa on Q&A about the Literature CurriculumDecember 20, 2025
I really didn't like My Antonia. Ethan Fromme, though, is phenomena. Let's go with Ethan Fromme.
Demotrash on Q&A about the Literature CurriculumDecember 20, 2025
I loved Little Women but in addition to it being better to discover on your own, it's not really a…
oldcowboy3 on Q&A about the Literature CurriculumDecember 20, 2025
LOL, damn, one too many apostrophes ;-D
Good Enough Professor on Q&A about the Literature CurriculumDecember 20, 2025
Willa Cather, My Antonia John Ehle, The Land Breakers
oldcowboy3 on Q&A about the Literature CurriculumDecember 20, 2025
Hmmm, perhap's the historically accurate O'Brian's Aubrey series?
Clarissa on Q&A about the Literature CurriculumDecember 20, 2025
I can't even say what I hate more, Little Women or Hemingway. Deeply detest both. But Faulkner, absolutely.
Demotrash on Q&A about the Literature CurriculumDecember 20, 2025
A great list of authors, absolutely none of which I read in school! We read plenty of good stuff in…
zinemin on My Christmas Gift to YouDecember 20, 2025
Thank you for the gift, I will check the book out, it sounds very interesting. Here is a book recommendation…
oldcowboy3 on Broken PromiseDecember 20, 2025
"There’s no way out of it because nobody can explain why equal opportunity doesn’t create anything like similar outcomes. Nobody can…
PaulS on Broken PromiseDecember 20, 2025
One of the justifications for apartheid was the old colonial need to maintain white prestige. Since post colonial Africa has…
Clarissa on Q&A about the Literature CurriculumDecember 20, 2025
Excellent suggestions.
Clarissa on Broken PromiseDecember 20, 2025
This was a very early promise that was already absent from the very first civil rights legislation. There's no way…
Physpostdoc on Let Conspiracies BeginDecember 20, 2025
STEM research is particularly brutal and goal-driven. The pressures to get grants, meet deadlines and deliver on milestones keep the…
Clarissa on Q&A about the Literature CurriculumDecember 20, 2025
My husband is obsessed with Fenimore Cooper. It's definitely a boy thing because I fail to get the point of…
Anonymous on Q&A about the Literature CurriculumDecember 20, 2025
Scarlet Letter is far from the only thing Hawthorne wrote. No reason you couldn't go with House of Seven Gables…
Anonymous on Q&A about the Literature CurriculumDecember 20, 2025
I second John Muir-- the Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf is magnificent. -ethyl
Anonymous on Q&A about the Literature CurriculumDecember 20, 2025
Jack Frost! :D That is like including Laura Ingalls Wilder in Florida lit because they tried briefly to move to....…
PaulS on Spousal HiresDecember 20, 2025
The Trump Organization is a family business. He's certainly rich, but his wealth is still peanuts compared to Blackrock. I'm…
Anonymous on Q&A about the Literature CurriculumDecember 20, 2025
"My First Summer in the Sierra", John Muir; "Victory", Joseph Conrad; "Undaunted Courage", Stephen Ambrose, "This House of Sky", Ivan…
PaulS on Broken PromiseDecember 20, 2025
The promise of civil rights was that people were to be judged by the content of their character. Instead of…
Mitch4 on Q&A about the Literature CurriculumDecember 20, 2025
I grew up in Miami (and unincorporated Dade) in the 1950s and 60s, and we also had Florida history in…