Amazing how a book can be so beautifully written and movingly sad at the same time. As for my review, I am deferring to my friend Jeff Keeten whose poignant and more thorough review was why I read the book in the first place. I am happy that I did read it, too. I’m also happy that I finished it ...
The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wingAs summer winds that creep from flower to flower;Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower, It visits with inconstant glance Each...
Rating: 4* of fiveThe Book Report: Travis Lee Stanhope leaves Harvard for France to join in the fighting of The Great War (WWI to thee and me), as so many of his generation of young American men did, on the side of the Allies. He chronicles his experiences as the lone Texan among European officers a...
Well, this was one of those rare occasions where I read through a whole book and wound up having no idea what went on. I may be beginning to sort it out a bit, here's my attempt:One day in 1988(?), there was a blackout in Coomey, TX, and a fundamentalist preacher, for reasons I don't understand, tol...
A great, unsung, strange dazzle of a novel. The book reads like a very strong version of a fairly-familiar political plot: the Washington insider trying desperately, and perhaps not entirely heroically, to spin his own survival against power blocs. It's steeped in the kind of paranoid musings on c...
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