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Tales from inventory #12: Jurgen by James Branch Cabell
Monday January 7, 2030 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Tales from inventory #12: Jurgen by James Branch Cabell of Richmond, Virginia. So middle-aged pawnbroker Jurgen is walking home from work when he meets two Cistercian Monks. One stubs his toe and falls to cursing the devil for placing the stone in his path. Jurgen asks the monk what the...
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Tales from inventory #11: Lincoln by Gore Vidal
Sunday January 6, 2030 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Tales from inventory #11: Lincoln. Can liberal writer Gore Vidal write a great historical novel? Yes he can. 657 pages told from the viewpoint of Lincoln's secretary, one of his assassins, and others. Draws a portrait of Lincoln not as a saint but as a politician, the smartest man in...
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Tales from inventory #9: The Executioner Always Chops Twice: Ghastly Blunders on the Scaffold
Saturday January 5, 2030 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Tales from inventory #9: The Executioner Always Chops Twice: Ghastly Blunders on the Scaffold. When Sir Thomas More was directed to position his head on the block, he carefully set his beard to one side remarking: "Though you have warrant to cut off my head , you have none to...
Tales from inventory #6: Arabia by Jonathan Raban
Friday January 4, 2030 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Tales from inventory #6: Arabia a Journey Through the Labrynth by Jonathan Raban. In 1978 English writer Jonathan Raban attempted to get a visa to enter Saudi Arabia in order to write about the place. Quite suspicious, they thought, so no visa. So Raban visited every country adjacent to Saudi...
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Tales from inventory #5: Wizard of Oz
Thursday January 3, 2030 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Tales from inventory #5: The Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum. By now you've probably heard that when L Frank Baum was trying to come up with a name for his land of children's fantasy his eye fell on the file cabinet marked O-Z. And then was born the...
Tales from inventory #1: Into the Wild
Wednesday January 2, 2030 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Tales from inventory #1: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. Try not to wince. In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mount McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to...
McGuffey Readers
Tuesday January 1, 2030 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM