Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from August, 2019

"The Judge Hunter" by Christopher Buckley

Sydney M. Williams www.burrowingintobooks.blogspot.com Burrowing into Books “The Judge Hunter” by Christopher Buckley August 15, 2019 “ Balty wobbled down the gangplank onto the New World. He would have dropped to his knees and kissed the ground beneath his feet, except that it was a mire of muck .”                                                                                                             The Judge Hunters ...

"The Pioneers," by David McCullough

Sydney M. Williams burrowingintobooks.blogspot.com Burrowing into Books “The Pioneers” David McCullough August 4, 2019 “ Now, all at once, almost unimaginably, it had acquired 265,878 square miles of unbroken wilderness, thus doubling the size of the United States .”                                                                                     The Pioneers , David McCullough History allows us to marvel at our own time with renewed perspectives. For example, how rich and easy our lives are – despite a freshman Congresswoman telling a N...