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The Freelance Writers guy is back in our blog, after previously being removed. This is a sample of what he says: "First I am not have 100% hope in this site, after that I thought let we try, so I will join free with this site and bid the projects, slowly I won the projects and clients. Now...

Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck. An early 60s portrait of America as he circles it in his camper truck with his elderly dog, Charley.

:confused:I tried to start a thread in the site management forum but was not permitted. :sad:This is a complaint about recent blog entries by someone promoting a freelance writers site. He is looking for business. Further, the man is illiterate, as shown by his entries. I enjoy the blogs...

Devout Christianity is not the only alternative to atheism. The possibilities are less an either/or than a gradient, maybe a gradient with branches.

Try Ursula LeGuin: The Lathe of Heaven The Dispossessed The Left Hand of Darkness

Maybe we have a problem with the word "belief". As a born-again Christian your beliefs had very specific content, such as that Christ gave his life for your sins. Some of us have beliefs which are much more fuzzy but nonetheless sincerely held. An example is the belief that the universe has...

I have been engaged for many days with The Age of Extremes by Eric Habsbawm. This is big picture history, covering the "short" 20th century from 1914 (World War I) to the breakup of the Soviet Union.

When I first retired I attended an Elderhostel session in Taos, New Mexico. When talk turned to books, several people mentioned Hillerman, so I tried him and was hooked. I think I have read all his books, even the ones not set in Navajo country. The books feature two tribal detectives, Leaphorn...

You have put your finger on what disapppointed me about the book. As I began reading I thought he was depicting anarchists and their actions and beliefs, as well as the actions and beliefs of those opposed to them. But as the book progressed the beliefs became caricatures and the actions became...

Was anyone else disappointed in this book? I listened to it as a recording so cannot readily refer to pages or examples, but I found the plot predictable and the fantasy at the end almost offensive. I haven't read any other Chesterton. Was all the emotional diatribe against the dynamiters and...

The most recent dead philosopher (of middle American life) is John Updike. The New York Times printed his recent poem, Requiem, which I think is very apt.

Here is a link to an Updike poem, Requiem, in the New York Times this morning.

How sad. I feel that he and I grew up together. We are the same age, and my mother's family had roots in the small town Pennsylvania he describes in some of his stories. I started reading him with Rabbit Run when it first came out and have kept more or less in touch ever since.

Some recommendations: David McCullough, Truman Doris Kearns Goodman, No Ordinary Time (the Roosevelts during World War II) Joseph Ellis, Founding Brothers Also, consider some novels for getting you into a historical period. For example, Gone with the Wind, shows you the Civil War as the...

Years ago I read large parts of The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki in a translation by Arthur Waley and enjoyed it tremendously. Also, for Nabokov, try Speak, Memory which is memoir of his boyhood i pre-revolutionary Russia. It will give you a different view of the writer than the one you...