Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Delays

If you like historical drama or even French history, I would recommend Sandra Gulland's The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. Series. It's deftly crafted and certainly made me want to reinvestigate my knowledge concerning the French Revolution and Napoleon's rule. Although Gertrude Himmelfarb's book on philosophy did concern the French Enlightenment, and, therefore, the Revolution, it's emphasis was not on battles, but the history of thought etc. I think I might to follow-up and read a couple of the books Gulland provides in her acknwoledgements section.
Months ago when I finished the Harry Potter series, I thought about writing about it, but I think I'll wait even longer. Not that many are reading this, but I would hate to spoil someone's read. Let's just say that I would continue to argue that there is more to the series than initially mees the eye. It is about good and evil. It does have a religious point-of-view. It is overwhelmingly about love and free will. It provides for a jolly good week of reading too.

3 comments:

cube said...

Didn't know if I have your most current blog, but I didn't want the holidays to go by without stopping by...

Happy New Year to you and yours from me and mine.

cube said...

I made the rounds on New Year's day, but for some inexplicable reason, I wasn't allowed to post. So belated greetings to you.

I finished the HP series myself in December. I read #4,5,6 in a week in order to catch up to #7. My poor daughter was sworn to secrecy & was dying to discuss it. We've had many nice discussions since.

Voracious Reader said...

It's a terrific series--although I was not as happy with the latter books as I was with those up through book 5. Happy New Year to you and your family too!