The Seven Book Challenge is one of those curious “challenges” that has been floating around social media. You know the drill: someone challenges you to post pictures of seven books. I have no idea why it is called a “challenge.” I have a former student who recently tagged me in this challenge. Since all I do on social media is put up book reviews, just putting up pictures of seven books I enjoy seemed odd. But, I like my former student who issued this challenge, and so I feel duty bound to do … [Read more...] about Seven Books
Eliot T S
A Second-Rate Potter
Late in his life, T.S. Eliot took to writing plays in verse. I don’t know why; he was never going to be a great playwright. But, I guess when you are famous, you can do whatever you want. A couple of his plays have some amazing bits in them. Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party both work well if you think of them as verse in play form. That is entirely different from being great plays, though. A couple of his plays are not good verse or play, containing rather a few scattered … [Read more...] about A Second-Rate Potter