This one for me will always be The One With the Grasshoppers.* Said grasshoppers destroy the Ingalls’ wheat crop and smother their farm like a Biblical visitation. Worse, they stay. And lay millions of eggs. Then one day they start marching on the ground, robotically, toward the west, finally taking their bows without so much … Continue reading On the Banks of Plum Creek
Category: Tolkien
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August 26, 2020 Nearing the end of a two-week vacation, I’ve managed now to reach the midway point of "War and Peace", having started over from the beginning. I reached the end of the novel but there were many chapters I had skipped, and I'm sweeping through now, from the beginning, to read those. Wonderful … Continue reading Reading left to right