It has long been my custom to send out lists of good things of the year with my Christmas cards. I thought it might be nice to set this out one by one in my weblog. They are not in any particular order. Here is the seventh.
Cornwell's Sharpe war novels vary in quality, but the best are Waterloo, $9.60 2001, and Sharpe's
Tiger: Richard Sharpe & the Siege of Seringapatam, 1799, (1999) $10.40.
Perhaps these are the books that Professor Berube should teach
in his class. I really do suspect (I can't say confidently without having read the
novels he used) that (a) they would be better for teaching history than the fantastical
novels he chose, (b) they have greater chance of being read in the year 2050 than
those novels, and (c) reading them will better teach students how to improve their own
writing, except for the rare student who pursues a career in artsy writing.
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