Summer interlude

And so the summer winds down. I still have to configure the fall course with its new text so I can't steal much time to reading for pleasure.

I finished Lee's Last Days. Although he is painted a bit too perfect, I have a new appreciation for this Southern hero. Well, it is just a bit annoying that he wanted his daughters around him and even after his death none of them found a life outside the bosom of the family.

I am impressed with his brief career as a visionary educator. Some of his ideas, like a journalism school, were way ahead of their time.

For pleasure I finished the last part of the Agnes Browne trilogy, - comic but not his narrative is oddly rough. It feels more like a string of anecdotes that do not tie together very well.