tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881054.post4459942433013608673..comments2024-03-06T09:59:45.522-06:00Comments on Happy Catholic*: Well Said: Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself meanJulie D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08384291674560438678noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881054.post-9244435313712343412016-11-30T01:46:20.841-06:002016-11-30T01:46:20.841-06:00That quote is pure gold.
I also love the "Ju...That quote is pure gold.<br /><br />I also love the "Justified" quote you have on the sidebar. I still miss that show. "We dug coal together."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881054.post-75047352432265714982016-11-29T14:36:43.069-06:002016-11-29T14:36:43.069-06:00I completely agree - it is what makes stories, whe...I completely agree - it is what makes stories, whether novels or other types, so endlessly fascinating!<br /><br />Is This is Us a tv show? I think people have recommended it to me before. <br /><br />I saw that Poldark, which I knew in name only, was a highly successful tv series. I have the first book on my "to read" list and will have to move it up!<br /><br />I've never been able to get into a Brandon Sanderson book. Which would you recommend as an introduction?<br /><br />I'll add that Concourse by S.J. Rozan is what made me use that quote. Her detective Bill Smith embodies all those qualities which make us understand when he falls a bit short, even though he never stops being a man of honor by instinct.Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11368767968953817531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881054.post-36351020509271846002016-11-29T13:28:11.525-06:002016-11-29T13:28:11.525-06:00This recalls to me three stories I've been enj...This recalls to me three stories I've been enjoying. The first is The Story of Us, which is populated by characters who are "not themselves mean"--or, at least, not so mean as to be unable to repent of their meanness when they come face to face with it. It's anchored by a character who is in every way this man, this hero, without ever being anything more notable in the world than a husband and father. <br /><br />The second is Poldark. It isn't the sex or gambling or duels or danger that makes Poldark worth watching, anymore than those things made Chandler worth reading. It's the man in the center, whose moral compass points true when everyone around him compromises in pursuit of various (better or worse) ends. Ross Poldark is a "complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man...a man of honor by instinct."<br /><br />The third is the novel I finished reading last night, Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson, which has in the epicenter of the mysteries of the novel a character who slowly reveals himself to be not only heroic, but legendary--but devoted to a thankless, arduous task by his own conscience. <br /><br />I like fictitious characters like this because they challenge me and inspire me through my own hard choices and responses to the world. Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03787892622804373968noreply@blogger.com