by Richard Subber | May 17, 2026 | Poetry, Reviews of other poets, Tidbits
the drawbridge is creaking…
“…How can you ask a princess
To deal with this terrible mess?
Wake me again in another hundred years.”
from the children’s poem “…and after a hundred years had passed, Sleeping Beauty awoke (at last!) from her slumber” by Judith Viorst, in her book Sad Underwear, New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1995
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Book review: Shakespeare’s Wife
Germaine Greer went overboard a bit…
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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | May 7, 2026 | Human Nature, Joys of reading, Language, Reflections, Tidbits
the ducks don’t think about us…
“…he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks
etching themselves against the sky over the water,
then blurring, then etching again
and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.”
from:
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1952
127 pages
pp. 60-61
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Book review: “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
Loneliness beyond understanding…
by Herman Melville
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In other words: Poems for your eyes and ears with 64 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | May 5, 2026 | Human Nature, Theater and play reviews
they figured it out…
Movie review:
An Officer and a Gentleman
This is a girl-gets-boy, boy-gets-girl kind of movie, with bells on.
Don’t waste a lot of time being thrilled and appalled by the harsh antics of basic military training—Louis Gossett Jr. won an Oscar for being the tough guy Sgt. Foley, but he is really background for Richard Gere slowly becoming an adult as the wannabe Navy pilot, Zack.
Zack almost without knowing it falls in love with Paula (Debra Winger), a townie who comes to need Zack in her life.
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982, rated R, 124 minutes) is a love story hiding in a coming-of-age movie about a boy and girl who finally figure out how to walk off together.
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Book review: “The Gentle Boy”
The Puritans had a dark side…
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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 | Apr 18, 2026 | Human Nature, Reflections, Tidbits
think it over…
“If all your life you endure
the consequences of a single deed,
then you cannot imagine life before it…”
from The Girl at the Lion d’Or
by Sebastian Faulks
New York: Vintage International/Vintage Books/A Division of Random House, Inc., 1989.
246 pages
p. 43
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Movie review: A Doll’s House
Henrik Ibsen’s classic on abuse…
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My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems with 52 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Apr 16, 2026 | Book reviews, Books, Human Nature, Reflections
give your arm to a loved one…
Book review:
The Gifts of Imperfection:
Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be
and Embrace Who You Are
by Dr. C. Brené Brown (b1965)
Center City, MN: Hazelden, 2010
135 pages
Dr. Brown offers this “tough lesson” from her life:
“How much we know and understand ourselves is critically important,
but there is something that is even more essential
to living a Wholehearted life: loving ourselves.”
This book moved me to think about changing the way I think about life, and my life.
Give yourself a gift: take time to read The Gifts of Imperfection and then D.I.G. into your life.
That is, start consciously thinking about wholehearted living and tell yourself a lot of truth, and then:
Get Deliberate about doing the right things for you, in all your glorious imperfections,
Get Inspired to acknowledge what you’re doing in all your loving relationships, and
Get Going, take the next steps in actually living a love affair with yourself and all you can be…
…and don’t mind if you stumble now and then, and give your arm to a loved one now and then…
…and have good intentions, and take the agony and the ecstasy as they come.
Quote is from The Gifts of Imperfection, p. xi.
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Book review: Colonial America
A Very Short Introduction
by Alan Taylor
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Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 74 free verse poems,
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by Richard Subber | Apr 4, 2026 | Theater and play reviews
a really good story…
Movie review:
The Fugitive
The fugitive is Dr. Richard Kimble (vigorously played by Harrison Ford), unjustly accused of murdering his wife and on the run from the police while he searches for the one-armed man who actually did the deed.
The Fugitive (1993, rated PG-13, 130 minutes) is a rip-roaring story with what I dare to claim is the most thrilling, scary, truly realistic train wreck sequence ever brought to the silver screen.
The Fugitive is a two-man show: an all-American guy aiming to prove his innocence and a passion-less cop who’s trying to track him down.
During the film, U.S. Deputy Marshall Sam Gerard (played by Tommy Lee Jones, he won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor) transforms himself from a relentlessly heartless good-guy to a good good-guy.
Perhaps you remember the top-rated mostly B&W television series “The Fugitive” (1963-1967) starring David Janssen. The 1993 movie is great proof that you can tell a really good story in less than 120 episodes.
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Book review: Mila 18
horrific truth by Leon Uris
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many waters: more poems with 53 free verse poems,
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