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Kickstart wants to read Village in the Vaucluse by Laurence William Wylie
Kickstart wants to read A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Emma Southon
Sounds interesting. Murder in ancient Rome. Non-fiction.
Kickstart started reading Trip to the West and Texas. by Amos Andrew Parker
Started in New Hampshire. Just left Detroit for Chicago in 1835. Detroit is already a real city, though apparently very dirty. Only good travel is by water.
Kickstart wants to read Non-Combatants and Others by Rose Macaulay
All Rose Macaulay’s anti-war writing, collected together in one fascinating and thought-provoking volume. The Introduction …
She's very good.
Kickstart wants to read The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world …
Sounds very interesting indeed.
Kickstart wants to read A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad
Conrad was a watchmaker. Compare him to Stevenson, who was a literary sloven and wrote garbage.
Kickstart wants to read Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. by George Canning
Canning was very witty.
Kickstart wants to read The Moose That Roared by Keith Scott
My all-time favorite TV show.
Kickstart wants to read Cicero And His Friends by Gaston Boissier
Really enjoy ancient Romans. Many nasty people but interesting.
Kickstart wants to read Trip to the West and Texas. by Amos Andrew Parker
Old travel books are a favorite.
Kickstart wants to read We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
So highly recommended. Looking forward to reading it.
Kickstart reviewed Across America by Motor-cycle by C. K. Shepherd
Cyril Shepard's account of riding his motorcycle across the U.S. in 1919.
Across America in the Old Days
4 stars
In the summer of 1919, straight out of the hospital after WWI, a British RAF officer decided to get the war out of his system by crossing America on a motorcycle. No one alive at the present time (2023) can conceive of the state of American roads in 1919. Eye-opening and fascinating. Highly recommended.
Kickstart reviewed Across America by Motor-cycle by C. K. Shepherd
Cyril Shepard's account of riding his motorcycle across the U.S. in 1919.
Across America in the Old Days
5 stars
Before highways, when American roads were pretty much just mud, a British flyer straight out of hospital after WWI decided to cross America on a motorcycle in the summer of 1919. A truly foolhardy plan at the time as the book makes abundantly, and entertainingly, very clear. Highly recommended for those who appreciate the prose of non-literary writers.