My Curious Reading: Planet Earth and the Ivory-billed Woodpecker

My Curious Reading Planet Earth and the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker             Dr. Underhill said, if we would destroy insects, we must preserve birds. Birds which run up the trunks of trees, like the Woodpeckers, are of especial benefit. They dig out the larvae of insects from the bark and devour it. […]

My Curious Reading: The Baron and the Bulge

Posted by ractrose on 5 May 2017 in Nonfiction

My Curious Reading The Baron and the Bulge                         Dialogue must be the most powerful type of writing. Most of us, I think, leafing through a book, see dialogue sequences as welcome action; we get from these a little pleased anticipation. Things are picking […]