by Richard Subber | Oct 26, 2023 | Book reviews, Books, Human Nature, Reflections
a “start feeling good” book
Book review:
Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus (b1957)
New York: Doubleday, 2022
390 pages
Lessons in Chemistry is not a “feel good” book.
It’s a “start feeling good” book.
Of course, there’s a message, and there’s a good story, and the message doesn’t get in the way of the story, and the story doesn’t obscure the message. (Guys, everybody can be a scientist, no matter which bathroom they use).
I think I need to mention that I’m not a dog person, so I confess that Six-Thirty isn’t my favorite character, but he’s more human than some people I know, so he’s important. Just think about this: maybe dogs can talk, but they choose not to.
Lessons in Chemistry is 390 pages of telling the centuries-old truths about the failures and the bitterness of the culture of male domination.
Some readers may think it’s all too much (and the “Supper At Six” TV show is a bit much), but the story evolves into a good story, and we need more inspiration to understand that some girl baby born somewhere yesterday may have what it takes to be the best scientist ever.
Elizabeth Zott has the words.
She says:
“Let’s get started.”
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Book review: “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
Loneliness beyond understanding…
by Herman Melville
Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 73 free verse poems,
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by Richard Subber | Oct 24, 2023 | Politics, Reflections, Tidbits
a great smooch…
“…righteousness and peace
have kissed each other…”
Psalm 85, King James Version
First published in 1611, authorized by King James I of England
…indeed, a kiss for all seasons
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Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2023 All rights reserved.
Book review: Ethan Frome
not being satisfied with less…
by Edith Wharton
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As with another eye: Poems of exactitude with 55 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Oct 21, 2023 | Language, My poetry, Poetry
loving a creature…
Learning
She was happily proud
to show me the new chicks,
her loving hands firmly full
of the downy creatures,
she taught me how
to gently stroke them,
my hand, suddenly,
it seemed too hard
for touching,
I stretched one finger
to the tiny heads,
I wondered how those peeps felt
in that tiny moment
of such awful risk
that they couldn’t imagine,
I wanted to whisper,
in gentling words,
that there is no danger
in her warm hands
or my careful caress.
May 18, 2023
“Learning: was inspired by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer’s “Springing” on May 17, 2023, on her website, click here
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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2023 All rights reserved.
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Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups with 59 free verse and haiku poems,
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Your comments are always welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.
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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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As with another eye: Poems of exactitude with 55 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Oct 17, 2023 | My poetry, Poetry
sipping the 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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Book review: The House by the Sea
be 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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and free in Kindle Unlimited, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber”
Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.
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