Blades upon Books - Traditionals

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This is How Jesus Heals Our Minds Today, 1941. (Jesus as an exemplar: take no thought for the morrow and you'll do a better job today and improve your chances for the morrow; take your guidance from within rather than letting yourself be hammered into a mould from without.)
I'd like to get my paws on How to Worry Successfully, but it's $70 on the big used book site. I found Keep Your Wits (1935) through inter-library loan, just started it. Then there's The Art of Selfishness, which is about preferring internal guidance again.

Keep Your Wits starts with the story of a visit from a professorial friend of Seabury's parents: "'It is dangerous to think for yourself until you know everything others have learned about a subject. [Then] you will have material for thought.'...
He is still alive, physically. The funeral of his intelligence was held in his sophomore year at college. Poor pompous parrot."

 

[Prester John]

Twain said this was his best book.

 

[Headwinds]

I've been enjoying some classic American fiction recently.

Very nice - but I can't find my 3-D glasses.

 

[Modoc ED]

 

[Jolipapa]

Twain said this was his best book.

What does think Jeanne about it???

 

[Prester John]

What does think Jeanne about it???

Je ne sais pas, mon ami!

Twain was fascinated with Jeanne d'Arc, and spent a lot of time researching for the book. I have read Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn more often, I must confess.

 

[Henry Beige]

Philip Kerr’s prequel to his Bernie Gunther series, set in Berlin, 1928. The parallels with today are striking.

 

[flatblackcapo]

 

[donn]

Very nice - but I can't find my 3-D glasses.

LOL! 3D glasses don't work for me so that's all I see to.

 

[Jolipapa]

Philip Kerr’s prequel to his Bernie Gunther series, set in Berlin, 1928. The parallels with today are striking.

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I've read all his books, one of my most favored writers.

 

[5K Qs]

TGIF!
Lee Child, always a good read, IMO.
...

I agree, Gary. I think I've read all of the Reacher novels at least once. And even though I complained last night that I was stalled out on finishing the last of my Asimov Foundation novels, I did manage to read an entire collection of Jack Reacher short stories last week; very enjoyable!

- GT

I thought I should add a photo with a blade upon a book:


- GT

 

[5K Qs]

Twain said this was his best book.

I didn't even know that Twain had written a book about Joan of Arc! Thanks for expanding my horizons, Vince.
(Certainly wasn't included on the Twain cards in the game Authors that we played often when I was a lad. )

- GT

 

[Prester John]

I didn't even know that Twain had written a book about Joan of Arc! Thanks for expanding my horizons, Vince.
(Certainly wasn't included on the Twain cards in the game Authors that we played often when I was a lad. )

- GT

Any time, Gary.
Look what I picked up:

Don't know if I will like it, but I'm going to give it a go. Read 2 or 3 chapters so far. I think I'm spoiled with Twain's and Melville's writing (just finished re-reading Moby Dick). Asimov's prose seems choppy in comparison, but I'll keep plugging along.

Edit: I've read a few more chapters. I am intrigued. In fact, I picked up the next two volumes yesterday.

 

[Ramrodmb]

Copyright 1956
A different time, without a doubt.

 

[Prester John]

Copyright 1956
A different time, without a doubt.

Different but better in some ways. I love those old '50s books.

 

[Ramrodmb]

Different but better in some ways. I love those old '50s books.

Less complicated, I think.
I'm sure there are many differing opinions, as there are on every matter. All have some merit in one way or another.
Old books and magazines are fascinating to me.

 

[dantzk8]

 

[Rose and Thistle Custom]

 

[Jolipapa]

Doing cats & bunny sitting, while she's on holiday, my daughter thought it would be an appropriate reading...

...or just a warning?

 

[Jolipapa]