Logos Bookstore’s Recommendations
by H. Harris Healy, III, President,
Logos Bookstore

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In this time of political conventions, the Democratic Convention having taken place in Boston in July and the Republican one upcoming at the end of August in New York City, the 9/11 Commission Report just released and much of world and domestic affairs on people’s minds, a topical, light, but biting fun book to read is Obliviously On He Sails: The Bush Administration In Rhyme by Calvin Trillin. This book is a collection of poems he has written as the deadline poet for The Nation on the topic of the George W. Bush administration. Each week for that magazine he contributes a piece of verse on the news. Some samples of his verse follow:

“He thinks that hostile’s hostage.
He cannot say subliminal.
The way Bush treats the language
Is bordering on criminal.
Yes W. once took the view
That CO2 is bad for you.
He says he’s had a turnabout:
We make the stuff when breathing out,
So dangerous is what it’s not.
From lobbyists you learn a lot.”

Trillin has topical headings for all his verses and divides the book up into twelve chapters with such chapter headings as: ‘George W. Bush and Nanny Dick’, ‘Just Invade Something’, ‘Assorted Irrelevant Countries’ and ‘The Charge Of The Sissy Hawk Brigade’. The author also enjoys taking potshots at Vice President Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Bill Bennett and Al Gore.

Wednesday, August 4, 2004, kicks off celebrations for the 6th anniversary of KYTV Reading Group with a party at 6:30 P.M. followed by a discussion at 7 P.M. of All The King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren. Further celebrations will occur in October.

Richard Curtis, of the Richard Curtis Literary Agency, will continue his discussion of the book of Exodus as part of the continuing series, ‘Love, Vows, A Connection: The Marriage Of A People to their God’ on Monday, August 9, 2004 at 7 P.M. Children’s story time continues every Monday at 3 P.M. Come join the fun!

Upcoming Events At Logos:
Wednesday, August 4, 2004 at 6:30 P.M., KYTV Reading Group will celebrate its 6th year anniversary with a party followed at 7 P.M. by a discussion of All The King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren.

Monday, August 9, 2004 and Monday September 20, 2004 at 7 P.M. Richard Curtis of the Richard Curtis Literary Agency will continue his discussion of the book of Exodus.

In the continuing series, “Love, Vows, A Connection: The Marriage Of A People to their God” Wednesday, September 1, 2004, at 7 P.M. KYTV Reading Group will discuss One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Wednesday, October 6, 2004 at 7 P.M. KYTV Reading Group will discuss Moby Dick by Herman Melville.#

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