I should not be buying books. I have much to do, far too many things to read already, and a new emphasis on avoiding bulky material possessions.
Still, when I saw Sarah Vowell‘s The Wordy Shipmates for $4.75 in hardcover, and remembered how charming she in on This American Life, I could not resist.
Author: Milan
In the spring of 2005, I graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in International Relations and a general focus in the area of environmental politics. In the fall of 2005, I began reading for an M.Phil in IR at Wadham College, Oxford.
Outside school, I am very interested in photography, writing, and the outdoors. I am writing this blog to keep in touch with friends and family around the world, provide a more personal view of graduate student life in Oxford, and pass on some lessons I've learned here.
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Here [in the Happy Days Thanksgiving episode] is the moment that inspired the first epiphany I ever had about colonial New England: Joanie leaves the room and her goody-goody brother Richie asks, “Father, are you letting her go out like that? Have you seen her skirt? It’s up to her ankles!” I remember sitting there watching that and realizing, for the first of many times, “Oh. Maybe the people who founded this country were kind of crazy.”
(p. 19 hardcover)
The Wordy Shipmates
October 13, 2011