tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916134868516639921.comments2021-06-24T14:29:59.525-04:00Expendable Mudge Muses AloudRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15481936090455797869noreply@blogger.comBlogger170125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916134868516639921.post-54457233514171616402021-06-24T14:29:59.525-04:002021-06-24T14:29:59.525-04:00Thank you most kindly for stopping in to say such ...Thank you most kindly for stopping in to say such a lovely thing! I'm so delighted I had a chance to read the book. Thanks again.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15481936090455797869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916134868516639921.post-68069740785365952222021-06-24T14:09:39.450-04:002021-06-24T14:09:39.450-04:00Fantastic review! You really captured the spirit o...Fantastic review! You really captured the spirit of DISASTERAMA! and what drew Three Rooms Press to publish it! Thanks so much! -Kat Georges, Co-Director, Three Rooms PressThree Rooms Presshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00389417726276021861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916134868516639921.post-32362336608235095082021-06-07T10:53:31.963-04:002021-06-07T10:53:31.963-04:00I suspect that my years editing and representing p...I suspect that my years editing and representing people has left its mark on my reading. I can't *not* notice those sorts of things, even though I usually just blow past 'em. When something is as gorgeous as this book, they irk me more, so I feel it's incumbent on me to say something.<br />Thanks for stopping by!Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15481936090455797869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916134868516639921.post-64524865660309101522021-06-06T18:45:39.489-04:002021-06-06T18:45:39.489-04:00Loved this book, too. You really picked up on the ...Loved this book, too. You really picked up on the loose threads that I missed entirely.Will Byrneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04133804241614935119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916134868516639921.post-36998707648874416712021-05-15T11:04:46.064-04:002021-05-15T11:04:46.064-04:00Ha! Yes, both gobsmacking and queasy-making are ap...Ha! Yes, both gobsmacking and queasy-making are appropriate responses indeed. I hope you'll like the read as much as I have. Author Cade is a wordsmith with a line directly to my heart.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15481936090455797869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916134868516639921.post-37849903257161052882021-05-15T08:27:13.029-04:002021-05-15T08:27:13.029-04:00All right, Mudge, your enthusiasm is compelling on...All right, Mudge, your enthusiasm is compelling on this one. I ordered this, but Amazon needs a week to get it to me on release. I'll catch up with you to talk about it then. I have had a fascination with grief and its works for decades, Helen MacDonald's "H Is For Hawk," which had an uncanny echo of Joan Didion's "Year of Magical Thinking" to me, to my naive but worthwhile grad student exploration of the Kindertotenlieder of Mahler that tried to interconnect the Rueckert texts, the music, and the classic stages of grief theory. <br /><br />The animal capable of perpetrating the current extinction is also the one capable of recognizing it and even mourning it -- but apparently not forestalling it. The existential gobsmack of it. Or the existential quease.Lynn Dionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00597644666443995058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916134868516639921.post-6622712661903833112021-03-28T14:01:30.439-04:002021-03-28T14:01:30.439-04:00History tells it one way; the fact is that my pare...History tells it one way; the fact is that my parents, not ill-informed, were *unaware* of the news reports. Just because something is said doesn't mean it's heeded, particularly in the middle of a war.<br /><br />And then, as a totally separate issue, comes the "do you believe this happened?" behavior...my Bavarian Catholic grandfather said all my life, "where would they have found that many Jews?" He insisted that it was the numbers that were lies, not the actions.<br /><br />Not everyone got the memo that early, is the short version; then they started fighting over its truth and accuracy.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15481936090455797869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916134868516639921.post-63256349718701754462021-03-28T13:20:04.035-04:002021-03-28T13:20:04.035-04:00Newspapers in the US were reporting it earlier tha...Newspapers in the US were reporting it earlier than the Declaration I mentioned in 1942 as well: "On November 25, 1942, many American newspapers published reports that 2 million Jews already had been murdered."Joachim Boazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12708479581729408508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916134868516639921.post-27529424400490868682021-03-28T13:19:00.707-04:002021-03-28T13:19:00.707-04:00So I find her omission considering she's cover...So I find her omission considering she's covering the post-War environment notable... Joachim Boazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12708479581729408508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916134868516639921.post-4313112667726044632021-03-28T13:17:13.179-04:002021-03-28T13:17:13.179-04:00I don't think that is correct. By 1942 America...I don't think that is correct. By 1942 Americans knew about the Final Solution.<br /><br />"The United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and nine Allied governments released a “Declaration on Atrocities” on December 17, 1942. This declaration condemned the “bloody cruelties” and “cold-blooded extermination” of Europe’s Jews and vowed that the Allies would punish war criminals after the fighting stopped. It made no promise to initiate rescue efforts."<br /><br />https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-united-states-and-the-holocaust-1942-45?parent=en%2F3486<br /><br />That does not mean that all Americans believed it.Joachim Boazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12708479581729408508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916134868516639921.post-70084685683055779502021-03-28T13:12:55.707-04:002021-03-28T13:12:55.707-04:00It's all the more shocking because she wasn...It's all the more shocking because she wasn't at all a spec-fic writer, which is another reason it fell between the stools.<br />She wrote it in 1944, and the Final Solution wasn't known about by the public yet. So basically this book was outdated within months! Like "A Rose for Ecclesiastes." its primary interest now is in its actual story...in this case, one man against the system who pays the ultimate price.<br />One close-to-accurate prediction she made was the de-occupation of Germany in 1955...actually happened late in 1954.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15481936090455797869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916134868516639921.post-76858696626782020132021-03-28T11:08:19.202-04:002021-03-28T11:08:19.202-04:00This seems like an interesting one -- and one I...This seems like an interesting one -- and one I'd never heard of. I always feel a bit sorry for such topical works (those in the super near future about a specific topic) as it's easy to ignore them on the basis that what she speculated about didn't play out. <br /><br />Does she address anything about the impact of the Holocaust in the "about-to-be-occupied" Germany? Joachim Boazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12708479581729408508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916134868516639921.post-62210978102466872492021-03-26T13:28:36.314-04:002021-03-26T13:28:36.314-04:00I'm glad the dichotomy is working in your favo...I'm glad the dichotomy is working in your favor! Like people who don't care for Dolly Parton, my latest review's subject is her *songwriting* not her singing. It's possible, and in my never-humble opinion desirable, to see people as well-faceted jewels.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15481936090455797869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916134868516639921.post-21442591276078599282021-03-26T12:51:04.797-04:002021-03-26T12:51:04.797-04:00Thank you for this post. While I knew her later ar...Thank you for this post. While I knew her later art (I just can't deal with it), I did not know about her evolution as an artist and person that created the later works. Often I find reading about artists and their art more interesting than the art -- as it is here. Joachim Boazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12708479581729408508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916134868516639921.post-51283102852404405342021-03-17T14:28:58.725-04:002021-03-17T14:28:58.725-04:00Thanks for stopping to say so. I hope you'll e...Thanks for stopping to say so. I hope you'll enjoy it when you read it!Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15481936090455797869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916134868516639921.post-26604488140148226972021-03-17T14:03:42.605-04:002021-03-17T14:03:42.605-04:00This book looks good. Thanks for the review! This book looks good. Thanks for the review! Crystal O'Leary-Davidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12917726187859964204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916134868516639921.post-38302147987238364652021-02-23T20:10:51.226-05:002021-02-23T20:10:51.226-05:00This crap is why I did not want to open comments a...This crap is why I did not want to open comments again.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15481936090455797869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916134868516639921.post-13691781257748212632021-02-23T18:13:40.215-05:002021-02-23T18:13:40.215-05:00I'm someone who has lived a life seemingly in ...I'm someone who has lived a life seemingly in the background, I must say this final indignity I have suffered almost too much to endure. You see, I have been sickly and weak since the day I was born and doomed to go through my life weakling. I seemed to have always suffered from one illness or another and could never play with the other children as I so desperately wanted to. Mother always made such a big fuss over me, also, making the situation worse as the other boys teased me mercilessly after they saw it. I was browsing the internet searching on how I could be transformed into a powerful person when I came across the email of a man named Lord Mark. who was a VAMPIRE so I told him that I has always dreamed of becoming a VAMPIRES, All i did was just to follow the procedure that i was been told, and i bet you that procedure I took change my entire life to something i ever desire, freedom, sickness free, pains free, fame, influence, connections and even more that i can. Thanks to Lord Mark. Do you want a life full of interesting things? Do you want to have power and influence over others? To be charming and desirable? To have wealth, health, and longevity? contact the vampires creed today via email: Vampirelord7878@gmail.comAlandrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05564958616469735697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916134868516639921.post-46353168014529560662021-01-17T12:02:53.209-05:002021-01-17T12:02:53.209-05:00I'm hoping so, Dr. B. It really is worth the e...I'm hoping so, Dr. B. It really is worth the exception to your rule.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15481936090455797869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916134868516639921.post-65054641359568467702021-01-17T11:45:36.466-05:002021-01-17T11:45:36.466-05:00But, you know my spiel... it's not only about ...But, you know my spiel... it's not only about what is worth reading. It's about "when" as well. Haha. <br /><br />A few newer novels sneak in here and there -- perhaps this will be one of them! Joachim Boazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12708479581729408508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916134868516639921.post-51375927524304579512021-01-17T10:09:15.750-05:002021-01-17T10:09:15.750-05:00Heck, a library check-out is zero dollars...why no...Heck, a library check-out is zero dollars...why not? It's a really good reading experience.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15481936090455797869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916134868516639921.post-24281456708112427552021-01-17T09:42:45.016-05:002021-01-17T09:42:45.016-05:00I'm all for floating cities! One of my pet SF ...I'm all for floating cities! One of my pet SF themes.... If I read newer SF more frequently, I might consider Miller's novel Joachim Boazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12708479581729408508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916134868516639921.post-4839189554688942882020-12-19T18:31:50.169-05:002020-12-19T18:31:50.169-05:00I have indeed read it, P.E. and found it greatly m...I have indeed read it, P.E. and found it greatly moving. I don't love all his stuff quite as much.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15481936090455797869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916134868516639921.post-52725666237141536712020-12-19T17:51:15.205-05:002020-12-19T17:51:15.205-05:00(P.E.)(P.E.)Raven7nevaRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15368479658376205628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916134868516639921.post-8245410547509141182020-12-19T17:49:30.799-05:002020-12-19T17:49:30.799-05:00Thanks! ^^ Mighty poet, that Cavafis : ever read h...Thanks! ^^ Mighty poet, that Cavafis : ever read his Ithaca? Jolly splendid by Jove ;)<br /><br />https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51296/ithaka-56d22eef917ecRaven7nevaRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15368479658376205628noreply@blogger.com