http://thebookjamblog.com/2012/01/02/books-that-transport-us/ Seeing the Books for the Trees. A Literary View from Vermont. Tue, 14 May 2013 19:07:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://thebookjamblog.com/2012/01/02/books-that-transport-us/#comment-221 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:02:00 +0000 http://thebookjamblog.com/?p=1245#comment-221 Now this looks like a fascinating book! I just looked into it as I missed its debut in 2010. It’s on my list. ~Lisa Cadow

]]> http://thebookjamblog.com/2012/01/02/books-that-transport-us/#comment-220 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:58:47 +0000 http://thebookjamblog.com/?p=1245#comment-220 Please let us know what you think of the book. Who knows…will your own experience of reading it match up?

]]> http://thebookjamblog.com/2012/01/02/books-that-transport-us/#comment-219 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:49:48 +0000 http://thebookjamblog.com/?p=1245#comment-219 What about Sarah Bakewell’s “How to Live, or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer”? Her incidental description of the hazards of life in France during the second half of the sixteenth century should effectively quell our grumbles about the first half of the twenty-first!
In addition, who couldn’t love a writer who describes the Roman Catholic church as ” a sort of authorized mass samovar, filled with pre-brewed faith”.

]]> http://thebookjamblog.com/2012/01/02/books-that-transport-us/#comment-218 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:04:29 +0000 http://thebookjamblog.com/?p=1245#comment-218 I just purchased “Rules of Civility” – your review makes me excited to read it. I had not heard of “The Redbreast” I may need to check that out as well.

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