LORNA -PERSONAL READING LIST - "To Be Read" List (2023)

[Lorna, Assisting Moderator (T) - SCOTUS - Civil Rights]

138. Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History

by Paul Horgan (no photo)

[Lorna, Assisting Moderator (T) - SCOTUS - Civil Rights]

139. Mr. Lincoln’s Army

by Bruce Catton

[Lorna, Assisting Moderator (T) - SCOTUS - Civil Rights]

140. Glory Road

by Bruce Catton

[Lorna, Assisting Moderator (T) - SCOTUS - Civil Rights]

141. A Stillness at Appomattox

By Bruce Catton

[Andrea]

What memories you bring back, Lorna!. What I was growing up, my baby brother was an enormous Bruce Catton fan. When we played a trivia game of which we were fond, he would always stump me with obscure Civil War Generals. But I got my own back with Shakespeare’s History Plays!
Regards,
Andrea
by Bruce Catton
by William Shakespeare

[Lorna, Assisting Moderator (T) - SCOTUS - Civil Rights]

Thank you for the lovely story and a smile, Andrea. You and your brother were very well-read!

[Lorna, Assisting Moderator (T) - SCOTUS - Civil Rights]

142. The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams, Stoner and the Writing Life

by Charles J. Shields

[Lorna, Assisting Moderator (T) - SCOTUS - Civil Rights]

143. Drood

by Dan Simmons

[Andrea]

OOOhhhhh, Lorna, is this a re-write, with an ending no less, of Charles Dickens’ “The Mystery of Edwin Drood?”. Count me in, if indeed it is!
Eagerly, Awaiting Your Review,
Regards,
Andrea

[Lorna, Assisting Moderator (T) - SCOTUS - Civil Rights]

Andrea wrote: "OOOhhhhh, Lorna, is this a re-write, with an ending no less, of Charles Dickens’ “The Mystery of Edwin Drood?”. Count me in, if indeed it is!
Eagerly, Awaiting Your Review,
Regards,
Andrea"

Yes, Andrea, this is Dan Simmons fictional take on “The Mystery of Edwin Drood. It has been languishing in my library for years, but now it is time to read it.

by Dan Simmons

[Lorna, Assisting Moderator (T) - SCOTUS - Civil Rights]

144. The Fate of the Day: The War of America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780

by Rick Atkinson

[Lorna, Assisting Moderator (T) - SCOTUS - Civil Rights]

145. Mark Twain

by Ron Chernow

[Lorna, Assisting Moderator (T) - SCOTUS - Civil Rights]

146. Memorial Days

by Geraldine Brooks

[Andrea]

Ooohhhhh, Lorna, you are so brave!. You’ve signed up to read the mammoth, multi-page, Mark Twain biography of Ron Chernow’s!!! I’m going to read his biography of U. S. Grant first. And then we’ll see …
Regards,
Andrea

by Ron Chernow

[Lorna, Assisting Moderator (T) - SCOTUS - Civil Rights]

Oh Andrea, I have that to read, too. I think that Ron Chernow is one of the best biographers and I will hopefully get through his back list. But Mark Twain is one of my favorite people in history.

[Andrea]

Amen to that, Lorna!. If for no other reason than he’s the man who said, “It’s not what I don’t understand about the Bible that worries me; it’s what I do understand.” … or words to that effect …
A wise-hearted man like Bezaleel and Aholiab …
Regards,
Andrea

by Robert Alter
by Mark Twain

[Lorna, Assisting Moderator (T) - SCOTUS - Civil Rights]

✓ 147. Oswald’s Tale

by Norman Mailer

[Andrea]

Oohhhhh my, Lorna I’ve always thought of Norman Mailer as an extremely violent author …. I’ve been terrified of reading anything he’s written for its mind-boggling violence … I don’t need any more nightmares, thank you very much … Is this not true, nicht wahr, n’cest pa???
Regards,
Andrea

[Lorna, Assisting Moderator (T) - SCOTUS - Civil Rights]

Andrea wrote: "Oohhhhh my, Lorna I’ve always thought of Norman Mailer as an extremely violent author …. I’ve been terrified of reading anything he’s written for its mind-boggling violence … I don’t need any more ..."

Andrea, this is the first book that I have read by Norman Mailer. It has received a lot of critical acclaim over the years. The format Mailer has utilized throughout the book is brilliant. As for violence, this is the tale of an assassin of an American president.

[Andrea]

Of course, Lorna, you’re right; but, I’ve seen the films, listened to the news broadcasters, and read “The Houston Post” while we were living through those turbulent times, and wallowing in the horror so long after the fact seems almost sacrilegious … for years, every time I saw one of those “stills” the whole trauma came thundering back … instead, let’s go to Arlington National Cemetery and meditate and pray at the Kennedy grave-sites … Let those tortured souls rest in peace. PAX TECUM …
Regards,
Andrea

[Lorna, Assisting Moderator (T) - SCOTUS - Civil Rights]

Beautifully said, Andrea.

[Lorna, Assisting Moderator (T) - SCOTUS - Civil Rights]

148. Buddenbrooks

by Thomas Mann

[Lorna, Assisting Moderator (T) - SCOTUS - Civil Rights]

149. The Magic Mountain

by Thomas Mann

[Andrea]

How brave of you, Lorna, to tackle Thomas Mann! We read him in my College German Class, and I loved it! But the novels, rather than the novellas, that’s a whole nother order of magnitude! Excelsior!
Regards,
Andrea

[Lorna, Assisting Moderator (T) - SCOTUS - Civil Rights]

Thank you, Andrea. I’m just trying to fill in the literary gaps!

[Lorna, Assisting Moderator (T) - SCOTUS - Civil Rights]

✓ 150. In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeanette

by Hampton Sides

[Lorna, Assisting Moderator (T) - SCOTUS - Civil Rights]

151. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

by Heather Cox Richardson (no photo)

[Lorna, Assisting Moderator (T) - SCOTUS - Civil Rights]

152. The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne