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GLENN'S BOOK NOTES

These in-depth, thought-provoking, and often funny posts are the brainchild of The Book Barn's very own Glenn. He never fails to make a great recommendation, useful warning or entertaining suggestion!

#169: MANGEZ! MANGEZ!

#169:  MANGEZ! MANGEZ!   In his vast series of novels and stories known collectively as La Comédie Humaine , Balzac begins with the...

#169: AN INDECENT OBSCURITY.

#168: AN INDECENT OBSCURITY. Catullus may well be the most ferociously passionate poet who has survived from antiquity. Of Sappho we have...

#167: ANIMALS.

#167: ANIMALS.  As with his friend Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes was a poet to whom success came early and stayed long.  Already a recognized...

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