Comments on: Not This August

By: Blake Matthews

Blake Matthews — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 02:58:43 +0000

In reply to Hitch. What was the pretext for wrongdoing in reading GWTW? I hope your mother called them a bunch of fascist-Nazis or something.

By: Hitch

Hitch — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 14:33:22 +0000

In reply to Nathan. Good on your family. Reading really is the path to freedom, in every possible way.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 18:31:57 +0000

In reply to Hitch. Nice. We had a bookmobile in the late '70s, and it was firmly established: Nathan can get anything. As many as he wants.

By: Hitch

Hitch — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 18:25:31 +0000

Jeeze, the good ol’ days, eh? I was summoned to the counselor’s office for reading GWTW (Gone with the Wind) at 11, and my mother was expected to show up and explain!

She showed up (livid) and explained, all right, and in *no* uncertain terms. I seem to recall that they never “asked” her back again. LOL. That was the mid-60’s. Ha!

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 19:39:41 +0000

The principal’s office, huh? How cruel.

By: Naaman Brown

Naaman Brown — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 19:30:23 +0000

I did a book report on “Not This August” in 5th grade (1959) and was sent to the principal’s office. I had to surrender my inappropriate !paperback! book that had adult language. I had already seen “1984” (1956 film) at the drive-in with Mom and Dad, and soon bought Orwell’s book. Couple of years later I discovered Ray Bradbury’s “Fahenheit 451”. Decades later, I bought a replacement copy of “Not This August”.

I was very impressed with this book.

“Not this August, nor this September …” — Ernest Hemingway, “Notes on the Next War”, Esquire, Sep 1935.