2009 Reading #6
Jan. 16th, 2009 06:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snurri1. Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left by Susan Braudy
2. The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini
3. From the Files of the Time Rangers by Richard Bowes.
4. A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
5. Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural by Jim Steinmeyer.
6. The Days of Rondo by Evelyn Fairbanks. Kind of a specialized interest, here; an account of growing up African-American in the Thirties and Forties in St. Paul, Minnesota. Rondo was the largely African-American neighborhood here, though it was, for most of its existence, more mixed than that label suggests. Evelyn Fairbanks chronicles her own coming-of-age and the ups and downs of a lost community. Lost because, in the 1960s, Interstate 94 was built right through Rondo; the street, and much of the neighborhood's coherence, disappeared. It's hard to say what Rondo would have been like had it remained undisturbed--Fairbanks chronicles other forces changing it, notably technologies like the automobile and the telephone. As memoir, this is very straightforward, not too personal, but witty and warm, and a valuable record of something lost.
Also, a follow-up on From the Files of the Time Rangers; Rick Bowes has published the afterword, The Mosaic Novel, over at Bookspot Central. Check it out.
2. The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini
3. From the Files of the Time Rangers by Richard Bowes.
4. A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
5. Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural by Jim Steinmeyer.
6. The Days of Rondo by Evelyn Fairbanks. Kind of a specialized interest, here; an account of growing up African-American in the Thirties and Forties in St. Paul, Minnesota. Rondo was the largely African-American neighborhood here, though it was, for most of its existence, more mixed than that label suggests. Evelyn Fairbanks chronicles her own coming-of-age and the ups and downs of a lost community. Lost because, in the 1960s, Interstate 94 was built right through Rondo; the street, and much of the neighborhood's coherence, disappeared. It's hard to say what Rondo would have been like had it remained undisturbed--Fairbanks chronicles other forces changing it, notably technologies like the automobile and the telephone. As memoir, this is very straightforward, not too personal, but witty and warm, and a valuable record of something lost.
Also, a follow-up on From the Files of the Time Rangers; Rick Bowes has published the afterword, The Mosaic Novel, over at Bookspot Central. Check it out.