by Richard Subber | Jan 18, 2024 | Human Nature, Tidbits
gettin’ it straight…
“A foolish consistency
is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen
and philosophers and divines.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) said
“When the facts change, I change my mind –
what do you do, sir?”
Indeed.
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Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2024 All rights reserved.
Book review: The Sea Runners
…it informs, it does not soar…
by Ivan Doig
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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 | Jan 16, 2024 | My poetry, Poetry
just common sense
Licking the bowl
Some baker somewhere
scattered cinnamon on the sky,
it’s baked in now,
it’s a cookie dawn,
sweet layers of light,
what a treat!
March 24, 2023
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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2024 All rights reserved.
Book review: The Blithedale Romance
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, not his best…
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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 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 | Jan 13, 2024 | Book reviews, Books, Human Nature, Joys of reading
“She Who Must Be Obeyed”
Book review:
She
by H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925)
New York: Books, Inc., 1930
first published 1887
384 pages
She is an adventure story that Indiana Jones never imagined.
Most of the action is in an unknowable part of Africa. The protagonist is a 2,000-year-old lady—“She Who Must Be Obeyed”—who is beautiful beyond understanding, all too aware of her great powers, and indefatigably committed to getting what she wants.
She’s not a very lovable character, but every man who sees her falls in love with her.
Haggard has created ripe ritual, grand history, a fantastic walkabout, and dabbles of credibility in this incredibly enticing story.
If you even suspect that you might get bored while reading She, you’ve got another think coming.
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2024 All rights reserved.
A beautiful book
Book review: History in English Words
by Owen Barfield
Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 73 free verse poems,
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by Richard Subber | Jan 11, 2024 | Language, My poetry, Poetry, Reviews of other poets
the lust for words…
goût
Words can be a feast.
There is a lust for words
that dances round the page,
and waits for you,
for me,
it doesn’t hide,
it lingers for the last little word,
the glittering one
that leaps from the quill,
and fills the plate,
and waits for you,
for me,
to taste the shine…
August 26, 2023
Inspired by “When My Friend Asks Me a Difficult Question” by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, August 25, 2023, as published on her website
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Book review: The Proud Tower
…a lot more than a history book…
by Barbara Tuchman
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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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by Richard Subber | Jan 9, 2024 | Book reviews, Books, Human Nature, Joys of reading
a sustaining emotional roadmap…
Book review:
The Woman at the Washington Zoo:
Writings on Politics, Family, and Fate
by Marjorie Williams (1958-2005)
Timothy Noah, ed.
New York: PublicAffairs, Perseus Books Group, 2005
358 pages
I wish I had known about Marjorie Williams’ work when she was an active staff writer at The Washington Post.
She had a pungent, penetrating style, and she carefully offered reasoned judgment as well as what we can nostalgically think of today as “facts.”
In The Woman at the Washington Zoo, her personal memoirs about her life and her cancer are wholly human, and they remain as a sustaining emotional roadmap for an engaged reader.
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2024 All rights reserved.
“…and dipped in folly…”
only Poe knows how to say it…
Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups with 59 free verse and haiku poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
and free in Kindle Unlimited, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber”
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