by Richard Subber | Sep 3, 2026 | Book reviews, Books
it seems dense
Book review:
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Boston: Mariner Classics, 1927
209 pages
Reading anything by Virginia Woolf for the first time is a brand new experience.
I guess that it’s doggone near impossible to pigeonhole her writing style.
The critical literary world has determined that Woolf was a “modernist” who characteristically used the “stream of consciousness” technique among other styles.
I guess you have to be in the mood for stream of consciousness. Most of the time it doesn’t suit me.
To the Lighthouse is, of course, a short novel, and that’s a plus in my book.
I’ll say that it seems dense. It’s a puzzling narrative, it just seems to spin the wheels on page after page. You can learn about the characters, but they aren’t very personable.
You may like it if it suits you.
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2026 All rights reserved.
Book review: “The Gentle Boy”
The Puritans had a dark side…
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 74 free verse poems,
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by Richard Subber | Sep 1, 2026 | My poetry, Poetry
The Book of Days
The dawn’s early light can be pleasure enough for the whole day.
There are words enough to tell the story of “the temptation of day to come.”
It is my delight to write some of them for your delectation.
Casserole
A plump expanse,
delicious reds,
maybe good enough to eat,
the vault is filled,
it lures the eye,
it makes a feast.
May 13, 2026
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Book review: Shawshank Redemption
A world I do not want to know…
by Stephen King
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In high meadows: poems abide with 60 free verse poems,
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by Richard Subber | Aug 29, 2026 | American history, Book reviews, Books, History, Joys of reading, Revolutionary War
a primary mover
Book review:
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
by Stacy Schiff (b1961)
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2022
422 pages
If this is your first encounter with Stacy Schiff, you can guess it won’t be your last.
She writes powerful prose that makes you want to linger over the words, to learn more deeply, and to experience her transformation of history into something believable and real.
Samuel Adams was a primary mover of the American revolution.
The British loyalists on this side of the pond and the king and Parliament on the other side recognized his vital role in bringing the colonial Americans around to their ultimate decision to cut the ties that bound them to England and its king.
Samuel Adams tells a whole lot more about the story of the man than you learned before.
Take some time to read it.
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Book review: Waterloo
The slightly Hollywood bravery
of Richard Sharpe,
the butcher’s work done at the battle…
by Bernard Cornwell
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Empyrean: new poems with 57 free verse poems,
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by Richard Subber | Aug 27, 2026 | American history, History, Human Nature, Politics, Power and inequality
Do a good thing today…
“…the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (1913-2005)
You remember…Rosa Parks wouldn’t give her seat
to a white man on the bus in Montgomery in 1955…
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The Scarlet Letter, victim of Hollywood
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s version is best
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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Aug 25, 2026 | My poetry, Poetry
take a quick look
Escape
Hustling through the sky,
who knows where it goes,
this scumbled track on the move,
it has no final stop in mind,
it runs, it flows,
it escapes to another sky,
and far away,
it thins, it slows,
it fades.
May 31, 2026
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Book review: The Snow Goose
…sensual drama, eminently poetic…
by Paul Gallico
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In high meadows: poems abide with 60 free verse poems,
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Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.
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