by Richard Subber | Oct 19, 2023 | American history, Book reviews, Books, History
the first Army nurses…
Book review:
The Nurses: Episodes 1-16
by Janet M. Kovarik, 2017
The Nurses tells some of the other stories about the American Civil War. You probably know about Dorothea Dix, the courageous activist who became Superintendent of Army Nurses during the war.
The Nurses invites you to understand the lives and the spirit of the women who rushed to serve under her leadership. Emmelda Poole and Livinia Atwater are two marvelous women created in Kovarik’s imagination, but they are real enough.
The author writes pleasing stories about believable women who helped their fellow man in ways only women could have done in the middle of the 19th century. Women like Emmelda and Livinia offered to suffering soldiers the kind of loving care that the doctors and the surgeons couldn’t or wouldn’t provide.
If you’re a Civil War fan, dig in to The Nurses.
If you just like good storytelling and remarkably credible dialogue, dig in to The Nurses.
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2023 All rights reserved.
Book review: Address Unknown
A friendship corrupted by Nazi hatred in WWII
by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
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by Richard Subber | Oct 17, 2023 | My poetry, Poetry
sipping quiet wine
All of you
I see with your eyes,
I touch with your fingers,
I hear all the laughing of our years,
I walk with your steps,
I sip quiet wine with your warm lips,
all of me loves all of you.
It’s so easy to remember.
May 8, 2023
My dearest one, I love you
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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2023 All rights reserved.
Book review: The House by the Sea
with May Sarton in her travels, in her mind…
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As with another eye: Poems of exactitude with 55 free verse and haiku poems,
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Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.
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by Richard Subber | Oct 15, 2023 | American history, Book reviews, Books, History, Politics, Power and inequality
the birth of “big business”
Book review:
The Essential Alfred Chandler:
Essays Toward a Historical Theory of Big Business
by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. (1918-2007)
Boston: The Harvard Business School Press, 1988
538 pages
Chandler offers a deep and dispassionate inquiry into the genesis of “big business” and the “big multinational corporation” in the latter part of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.
There’s much of interest here, even for the casual student of history and the “non-business” types.
Much of the motivation and much of the opportunity for the development of what Chandler chooses to call the “modern business enterprise” was circumstantial and related to geography and the exigencies of human and animal labor.
The author chooses to avoid the legal/illegal, moral, and philosophical aspects of the rise of big business, and the vastly maldistributed benefits of the same.
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2023 All rights reserved.
iambic pentameter, y’know?
da DUH, da DUH, and stuff…
“In search of”…my poem
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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Oct 12, 2023 | Human Nature, Reflections, Tidbits
for life to have meaning
“A man must fill his life with meaning,
meaning is not automatically given in life.
It is hard work to fill one’s life with meaning.”
from The Chosen
by Chaim Potok
New York: Fawcett Crest, 1967
pp. 204-205
Here’s one approach: do a good thing every day.
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Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2023 All rights reserved.
A beautiful book
Book review: History in English Words
by Owen Barfield
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My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems with 53 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Oct 10, 2023 | Language, My poetry, Poetry
joy uplifts each dance
empathic
I think of you in a new way…
you are one of the greeters,
you help the new ones to find old friends,
you freely give so many smiles,
sing the tunes that fill the air,
you sway with rhythms
that join so many spirits
and spin so many steps,
you show good heart
when easy joy uplifts each dance,
stepping up to the awkward ones
to tell the secret words of love
that all can share,
you lead the way
to radiant halls
and precious gardens
where all can stand together
and make so much music
that never stops…
June 20, 2023
For my dearest one
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Book review: Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier, he reaches deep…
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Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups with 59 free verse and haiku poems,
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Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.
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