Among other invaluable items of useless information, I recall a book written by an English lady of the eighteenth century, which dwelt long and lovingly on the evils of education for women.
To my surprise, I sense there is some nobility in Gerald's enterprise and I recall a book written by a professor who is not quite so brilliant as me, in which Victorian sexual activity was explored through the prism of voyeurism.
He recalled a book by Clifford H. Pope called "The Reptile World".
He recalled a book party in Dublin where he introduced his mother to a friend.
A former employee of the Nazi Party's publishing house recalled a book on foreign policy that Hitler had dictated but never published.
He recalled a book, "The Last Angry Man," in which a pugnacious Brooklyn doctor refuses to yield to the bums he calls "galoots".
He recalled a book of Flemish Baroque paintings published by the Alte Pinakothek in Munich that was carefully prepared to present accurate colors.
I feel like saying "Awwwww" for Tom Hopkins: "On the children's books theme, I recall a Ladybird book called Downy Duckling that I required my dad to read so often that it literally fell apart.
That entire swaths of my eighth-grade year are gone, that I can "see" the auditorium clearly, also the severed frog in the dish, but cannot recall a single book read nor the name of the teacher responsible for my literary advancement, I am frustrated--and achingly hollow.
There isn't one chapter, whether philosophy, semiotics, reportage, travelogue or about seven different variations on the memoir (coming of age, coming out, nervous breakdown, dysfunctional family, child of divorce, odd jobs, collisions with foreign cultures), that doesn't recall an entire book devoted to that subject.
A recent decision to recall a popular history book for its abject religious bias, written by one of the Texas Board's most controversial experts, is a strong reminder of why every classroom needs an iPad, which allows school districts to curate their own reading material.
