Barbara Holland
Birth date: April 05, 1933
Died: September 07, 2010
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Somewhat after the fact, I’m reading Barbara Holland’s Gentlemen’s Blood: A History of Dueling from Swords at Dawn to Pistols at Dusk, published in 2004. I should have read it before writing The Affair of the Code Duello, but fortunately I didn’t seem to have committed any major faux pas.The book is...
The best memoirs leave one wanting more. This is one of those. A lovely, incisively observed life. Holland is amusing without being silly, nostalgic without being treacly.A telling excerpt:"Several years ago a well-heeled friend said to me, 'I was brought up to believe you must never, ever dip into...
Holland's unabashedly nostalgic look backwards draws some deeply flawed conclusions. Many of her eulogies were for things that, 10 years later, turned out not to be dead after all, and that made for some decidedly odd reading. I expected more amusement than I actually got from this one. It read like...
I picked this up at the library because it looked cute. It was hilarious. Holland's authorial tone is wry and wonderful. The book is sort of an overview of alcohol's history, but Holland dips and lingers in a wholly whimsical fashion, and ends with directions for building a still, which item has bee...
interesting to see how drinking and the attitudes towards it have changed over the centuries.
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