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Sunday, April 19, 2026
Friday, April 17, 2026
Stephen crane the Bride Comes to Yellow sky
I've enjoyed everything I picked up by Stephen crane his short stories his books and his poetry .this is a book review on the Bride Comes to Yellow sky.
this is about Newly Weds on a train going from one end of Texas to the other .... A Thousand Mile Journey on a Pullman steam engine that has to stop for water when some action happens............anyway dude went across Texas and eloped and now they're on their way back together.... from San Antonio to Yellow sky Texas ....now yellow sky is a fictional town on one end of Texas .....
The dude is actually a Marshall the town Marshall's name is Jack Potter.... went clear across the state and eloped this bride he picked up is older then the normal Brides ..... eloped in a blue cashmere dresss steel buttons .... Her name is not mentioned at all other than Mrs Potter..........anyway marriage was important to the people in yellow sky and they were on a train that was a beautiful Pullman they had a parlor car with Fresco's on the ceiling and then there was a dining car with a Negroes and dazzling white suits .......he was bringing his bride to this Society.... she came from San Antonio .there Was snobs on board this train and the embarrassed her..... as under class. Steam engine had two engines actually had to stop for water and so they got out and they were in a bar and they was like the drunk man looking to scrap he wanted a gunfight you know three paces and then turn around and shoot.....but this groom was not armed the other guy did back down ...the armed Guy Backed Down and refuse to shoot an unarmed man
Jack Potter was nervous about bringing his new bride back to Yellow Sky because he didn't even tell the people in yellow sky that he was going to get married and now he's coming back with this woman
Friday, March 6, 2026
The saddest day of the year in Judaism is Tisha B'Av, the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, a solemn fast day commemorating the destruction of both the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem, as well as numerous other tragedies and exiles throughout Jewish history, including the Holocaust. Observances include a 25-hour fast from food and drink, refraining from bathing, wearing leather shoes, and engaging in joyful activities, focusing instead on mourning, study, and reflection on loss and resilience.
Key Aspects of Tisha B'Av:
Date:
The 9th of Av (usually in July or August).
Commemorates:
Destruction of both Temples, Crusades, Inquisition, expulsions, and the Holocaust.
Practices:A full fast (no food or water), avoiding luxuries like music, bathing, and leather shoes; reading Lamentations (Eichah) and dirges.- Significance:A day to remember historical pain, reaffirm Jewish identity, and commit to rebuilding and learning from the past.
- The loss of the First Temple (Babylonians, 586 BCE) and Second Temple (Romans, 70 CE) were catastrophic events, leading to massive loss of life and exile.
- Historical Tragedies:Many other calamities, from expulsions to the Shoah (Holocaust), are linked to this date, making it a focal point for collective Jewish grief.
- Spiritual Loss:The Temples represented the heart of Jewish spiritual and national life, and their destruction marked a profound spiritual void.
Sunday, March 1, 2026
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Great love poems which is an anthology or rather a collection of poems put together by Shane Weller
Winter Dreams F Scott Fitzgerald Bernice Bobs her hair F Scott Fitzgerald the offshore pirate F Scott Fitzgerald HG Wells the Apple the magic shop
2026 books read
2026 books
babbit by Sinclair Lewis
Thomas Bracken hurrah for New Zealand not understood and how Von tempski died
Fahrenheit 451 ray bradbury
old New Zealand frederick manning (maori life/Polynesian)
Rudyard Kipling poems....the thousandth man (FAVORITE)
.........tommy....the law of the jungle....gunga din....power of the dog....
Rikki tikki tavi
Oscar Wilde Ballad of reading gaol
bram stoker squaw
Olive Shriner story of an African Farm
the lake gun James Fenimore Cooper
ts Eliot wasteland
the false gem guy de Maupassant
crazy night Tennessee Williams
Bloomsbury girls Natalia jenner
roughing it in the bush Susan Moodyu
Bartleby the scrivener story of Wall Street Herman Melville
Agatha Christie Hercules Pro Christmas
The lightning rod man Herman Melville
Barnaby rudge Charles Dickens
the scandal in Bohemia sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Erehwon Samuel butler
Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge
summer Edith Wharton
trumpet Major Thomas Hardy
Edgar Allan Poe Annabelle Lee
ghost Patrol Sinclair Lewis
war is kind Stephen crane
truth said a traveler's Steven crane
Snows of Kilimanjaro Ernest Hemingway
The Octopus Frank Norris
Malachi's Cove Anthony trollope
Edwin Abbott Flatland
Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
willa cather o pioneers
Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe
House of pomegranates Oscar Wilde ( fisherman and his soul)
christabel Samuel Coleridge Taylor
the Amalfi curse Sarah Penner
Narrative of Gordon PYM... Edgar Allan Poe
h g Wells the magic shop
Saturday, February 28, 2026
Barnaby rudge tale of the Riots of 1780 Charles Dickens
Barnaby rudge by Charles Dickens A Tale of the Riots of 1780 starts out with a preface about London and a raven becoming extinct and this takes place IN an inn called the maypole, was a place of public entertainment ...it was a gabled old building..... talks about the constitution of mermaids and that mermaids are not women...
this place of entertainment called the Maypole was a hostel .....an inn.....was called a human man trap a Decoy for husband......
the Gordon riots were anti-catholic riots. AI confirms they were real and were the result of a piece of legislation called the Catholic Relief act 1778
no popery riots...no kings.... These people did not want to Pope set up next to their King there was a riot
the leader of the riots was Lord George Gordon
locksmith a landlord treason by King George II
chapter one ends in a crime ...MURDER a gardener
the Protestants did not want Mary Catholics
talks about a ghost Freemason