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A is for awesome cover
I recently had access to a small number of books from my personal library that is now mostly in storage. Thought I would share a few photos. Here is a great collection of short stories by one of the masters in the field! I’ve also got a copy of R is for Rocket, as well…
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Phaedra by Seneca
I read Thyestes by Seneca a couple weeks ago and then decided to try another of his plays, this time reading Phaedra. I’m very pleased I decided to read another one, as I enjoyed Phaedra a great deal. Here is the little reaction to it I wrote: I finished reading Phaedra, a play written around…
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We Dream of Space by Erin Entrada Kelly
I just finished reading We Dream of Space (2020) by Erin Entrada Kelly, a young adult novel that follows the lives of three siblings over the course of a month in early 1986. The siblings have a teacher who is closely watching the unfolding of the Challenger mission, and weaves the event into her classroom…
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Thyestes by Seneca
I read Thyestes by Seneca (translated by E. F. Watling), a tragedy written in the first century AD. This is the first play by Seneca I’ve read, having only read his letters to Lucilius Junior in the past. Euripides, one of my favorite writers, wrote a play with the same title some 500 years earlier.…
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First Take
I picked this album up years ago at a thrift store back home. At the time I had never heard of Roberta Flack, but something about the album caught my eye. I gave it a listen and immediately loved it. Back then I worked at a tree nursery and we had a record player in…
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Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
I finished reading Agnes Grey (1847) by Anne Brontë. This is the first book she published and the only one I have read by her. The novel carried me away to Agnes’s world and I could often relate to her inner thoughts. The fictive world that Brontë builds is simple and clean, and feels bright…
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Pharsalia by Lucan, video
I just posted the first video I’ve made for The Vulgar Eclectic. Here it is:
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Pharsalia by Lucan
“No, it will be the match we always have— Liberty pitted against a Caesar“ I recently finished reading Pharsalia (written about 65 AD) by the Roman poet Lucan, translated by Jane Wilson Joyce. This is an epic in ten parts written in verse in the tradition of Homer and Virgil. Unlike those poems, however, Pharsalia…