The above picture is of Fletcher Library, a joint Chattanooga city library and a library for the University of Chattanooga. It was built on McCallie Avenue in 1940 and remained the joint library until 1974 when a new library was built for the university after it became part of the University of Tennessee system in 1969. This was MY library. Thankfully, it still stands but
This coming year, whatever book club meetings may look like, people will be discussing The Splendid and The Vile, Erik Larson’s latest narrative nonfiction. The purpose of this post is NOT to talk about The Splendid and The Vile but rather to look at Erik Larson as an author and to review a few of his other books. In a recent interview appearing in the
On Tuesday, Aug 25, 2020, at 7:00 PM, Jon Meacham will celebrate the launch of his new book about John Lewis. As an Atlantan, although non-native, I am very proud of John Lewis. Having heard about him since the beginning of the Civil Rights movement, I followed him with interest during his career. He was the Representative from my district so I voted for him
Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson Can humans overcome their hard-wired propensity for short-term planning and self-regard to take on a daring solution to save the world’s plant and animal species from the brink of extinction? In Half-Earth author Edwin O. Wilson, posits that humanity should commit to reserve one-half of the planet’s surface to nature to benefit the majority of
From the beginning, I have described my blog as a ‘work in progress’ so I’m pleased to announce a ‘progression’, which will involve a new category and a collaborative effort with the Kiawah Conservancy. The idea for this collaboration evolved after I wrote a book review for the latest issue of “Naturally Kiawah”, the Conservancy’s twice yearly publication. Perhaps, I thought, I could feature on
The picture below is a pastel by Louis Comfort Tiffany. It is of his wife Louise. It currently hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Does it remind you of yourself when you fall asleep while reading? This next photo is of a watercolor by Carl Olaf Larsson. It hangs in the Louvre, Paris. Now that I have a kitten in addition to
Don’t buy all the Lions of Fifth Avenue. I’m getting the book VERY soon. There better be some left!! NEW RELEASES 8/4/2020 August 4th was a big release day with 20+ new titles going onto the shelves at Indigo Books. Here are a few of them. One Minute Out by Mark Greaney. Greaney’s protagonist, The Gray Man, is a former military special-ops guy now CIA.
Last month’s winner was Madeleine Kaye, who answered the trivia question almost as soon as I posted it. I learned a lesson from that!! This contest is a bit more involved AND I will take answers for an entire day, up until midnight of August 2. Then, I will take the names of all the people who answered correctly, put them in the proverbial hat,
No, ‘The Bookshelf Detective’ is not the title of a new book. It is a person the New York Times has designated to examine the bookshelves of people while they are being interviewed remotely from home–sometimes on talk shows or news hours or the like. I can only suppose that these ‘detectives’ take still shots and enlarge them enough to see the titles of books
