by Michael Dirda
My to-read list got a lot longer. Sigh.
People dig this dude. Ellie and NE are both high on him, so that's pretty good recs.
I tend toward "serious" reading - alternative histories, current affairs, psychology, spirituality, etc. Recently, I realized that I hardly ever read good literature. Then I discovered a series of books by Michael Dirda, literary critic for the Washington Post.For those who choose to explore Class...
"Real" rating = 3.5 or soMichael Dirda's [book:Classics for Pleasure] is an eminently readable collection of three-to-five-page essays on authors of the lesser known "classics" of Western literature (mostly - Dirda does slip in Laozi (China) and Ferdowsi (Iran)). I'm not about to rush out and find a...
I was expecting this to be a 10; it barely scraped in at a 7. I could not wait for it to be published; I stopped by the bookstore three times, hoping to find a copy before the official publication date. And then when I actually got the copy and started to read it? You must be kidding me. Who would r...
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