TWO OF MY MOST READ BLOGS

Just in case some of you missed these two blogs I’m about to recommend, let me tell you they, of course, were about books, neither of them fiction. One of them, with the blog dated February 17, 2010, turned out to be a much-loved book by several readers, as it was mine. I happened to have corresponded with the author who lived in France, and knew the answer to a life-or-death question several readers wanted to know. You will read their comments on the answer in the blog. This is what makes blogs so worthwhile to the writer. That book is Yours Is the Earth, a war-time publication, by Margaret Vail. That war was World War II.

The second blog is, among other things, also about war, a possible war in the future, if we don’t take care of what we have. I taught this small book in high school, to seniors who were planning to go to college. The day they got their copies of the book, already checked out to them to save class time, I read the first chapter aloud to them, to make sure they’d want to read the rest of it. I was delighted the next morning when one of the boys could hardly wait to tell me, before class time, that he had finished reading the book “last night.” What a thrill for this teacher! This gem of a book is Man’s Unconquerable Mind by Gilbert Highet. This blog is dated February 15. 2010.

These two books are hard to find today. MUM can possibly still be offered by the publisher. Try a used book store. ♥