http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/SlyCy5805/hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/SlyCy5805/359700This is a novel about Brisbane (Barbados) an island run by the white British who are served by the black populace. Mary Gertrude has risen from the status of slave to live as a mistress in the greatest house on the island but her rise in status has come at a price she never intended to pay and so...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/SlyCy5805/357023novel written by a slave, Hannah Crafts and edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and it was wonderful. The novel reads somewhat like Uncle Tom's Cabin, but from the prospective of a woman who was actually a slave in the Pre Civil War South. The title of the novel is the Bondwoman's Narrative and in...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/SlyCy5805/344204The Devil in The White City refers to a Jack the Ripper type murderer who carried on his ghastly work during the amazing achievement of the World Exposition of Chicago in 1893. The White City was the brainchild of archietect Daniel Hudson Burnham who overcame staggering obstacles to achieve a...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/SlyCy5805/341893This book reminds me of what That Championship Season must have been like though I never read or saw that novel/play/film. Neely Crenshaw was a great high school quarterback who enjoyed all the fruits of a glorious high school career and went onto a Class 1 college but injured his knee in his...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/SlyCy5805/336363This book is great. Bob Dylan is as good at memoir writing as he is at songwriting. This book covers the first part of his songwriting career in which he moved from the mine fields of Minnesota to the freezing cold of NYC circa 1961 at which time he was only 20 years old. He had a voracious...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/SlyCy5805/331238Written in 2004 by a Harvard professor of Shakespeare, this is one of the most enlightening books about Shakespeare that one could read. Prof. Greeblatt takes the events and circumstances of William Shakespreare's life and shows how he utilzed and reacted to these events in his artistic and...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/SlyCy5805/318382This is a well written book but not really to my tastes. Ellie Nightengale (She has married a doctor named Paul Nightingale. Hmmm) had a baby daughter stolen from her in 1972 when she was eighteen years of age. Kate Sutton and her husband is the recipient of this tiny little girl who grows up to...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/SlyCy5805/299415Joe Starling is a Yale educated artist who was born and raised in Montana and whose flagging art career goads him to return to Montana from his life with his wife Astrid in Miami. Joe drives his wife's pink Cadillac three thousand miles from Miami to Montana where he meets his aunt Lurleen and...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/SlyCy5805/291410This tells the story of a young boy who loved his parents and his housekeeper in Montana but whose family history came apart in the summer of 1948. David was the son of a rural sheriff Wesley, whose brother was the apple of his family's eye until he upset the apple cart. Brother Charles was the...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/SlyCy5805/289173The best short story I ever read is Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac in which a Napoleonic soldier, cut off from his colleagues, meets and befriends a leopard in the desert. This novel reminds me a great deal of that short story. Life of Pi depicts the life of a sixteen year old boy who...