So first, I loved the blog post below. The Art Deco buildings from Riga, Latvia, are enticing. Take a long look at the details. The author visited the Baltic area and takes lovely pictures. https://almatcboykin.wordpress.com/2024/09/16/human-scale-buildings-and-jungendstil/?page_id=33831 Next, I messed up a password on my phone five or six years ago and thought it didn't matter. All [...]
Lessons for a writer
I spelled Joe Rantz's name wrong. I'm sorry! I’ve been reading my brother-in-law’s favorite book. (Or at least, one he recommends All the time.) Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown (Viking, 2013) is an absolutely riveting account of the American rowing team at the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany. I had to stop [...]
Elizabeth Goudge and two houses
I wrote about the author Elizabeth Goudge a few days ago. I had just discovered her book, Henrietta’s House (1942) and hadn’t really enjoyed it. Even so, I realized that Internet Archive** had a lot of Goudge’s books and I started rereading the Eliot trilogy, The Bird in the Tree (1940), The Herb of Grace [...]
Vacation, Part II. Still thinking about a book.
Tuesday I wrote about a book by Dava Sobel from 2016. The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars. Dava Sobel. Viking. 2016. I’ve been rereading it. Sobel is a remarkable writer, able to explain scientific concepts clearly. This can deceive the reader into thinking a topic [...]
I’m on vacation but I read a fascinating book …
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars. Dava Sobel. Viking. 2016. The ladies in question started working at Harvard Observatory in the late 1800’s and some of them continued their work until the 1930’s and 1940’s. These women were not students at Harvard; they were employees [...]
