Featured Reviews

Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform (2004) - Derrick A. Bell, Jr  (Grade:B+)

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Christmas at Thompson Hall (1877) - Anthony Trollope  (Grade:A-)

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Hollow (short story) (1982) - Breece D'J Pancake  (Grade:B)

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A Political Philosophy of Conservatism: Prudence, Moderation and Tradition (Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition) (2021) - Ferenc Horcher  (Grade:A-)

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The Christmas Day Kitten (story) (1986) - James Herriot  (Grade:A+)

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The Little Match Girl (story) (1845) - Hans Christian Andersen  (Grade:B)

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The Birds' Christmas Carol (1886) - Kate Douglas Wiggin  (Grade:B+)

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A Christmas Classic
A Christmas Carol (1843) - Charles Dickens  (Grade:A+)

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The Gift of the Magi () - O. Henry  (Grade:A+)

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In God We Trust : All Others Pay Cash (1966) - Jean Shepherd  (Grade:A)

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The Greatest Gift: The Original Story That Inspired the Christmas Classic It's a Wonderful Life (1943) - Philip Van Doren Stern  (Grade:B)

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MOVIE REVIEWS:

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F1; The Movie (2025) - Joseph Kosinski  (Grade:A+)

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Phantom Thread (2017) - Paul Thomas Anderson  (Grade:A-)

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Brothers Judd Daily

Brothers Judd QuasiDaily Bookmarks:
12/25/25:

Jimmy Buffett (1946-) was born in Pascogoula, MS on December 25, 1946.

Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957) was born in New York, NY on December 25, 1899. Brothers Judd particularly recommends The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The Maltese Falcon (1941) and The Big Sleep (1946).

Cab Calloway (1907-94) was born in Rochester, NY on December 25, 1907. Brothers Judd recommends Are You Hep to the Jive?

William the Conqueror was crowned King of England on December 25, 1066. Read Orrin's review of The Golden Warrior: the Story of Harold and William (1949)(Hope Muntz) (Grade: A)

I.F. "Isidor Feinstein" Stone (1907-89) was born in Philadelphia, PA on December 24, 1907. After 60 years trading on an independent image as a left-wing muckraker, he has been revealed in recent years as a Soviet agent. Read Orrin's review of The Trial of Socrates (1988) (Grade: B-)

Supposedly, it was on December 24, 1822 that Clement Moore (1779-1863) wrote his famous Christmas poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas," better known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas." See Orrin's review of Author Unknown: On the Trail of Anonymous (2000)(Donald W. Foster) (Grade: A)

Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881-1958), Spanish poet and 1956 Nobel Laureate, was born in Moguer, Spain on December 24, 1881. Read Orrin's review of The Complete Perfectionist: A Poetics of Work (1997)(Juan Ramon Jimenez 1881-1958) (edited and translated by Christopher Maurer) (Grade: C+)

Fritz Leiber (1910-92) was born on December 24, 1910. Brothers Judd recommends his The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser (Lankhmar Series)

Joseph Smith (1805-44), founder of the Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints, was born in Sharon, VT on December 23, 1805. You can check out the Book of Mormon online and Brothers Judd recommends American Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith (1999) (Heidi S. Swinton), the companion volume to the recent PBS film.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896-1957) was born in Palermo, Sicily on December 23, 1896. He is remembered for his posthumous novel The Leopard (1958).

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)was born in Maine on December 22, 1869. Read Orrin's review of Selected Poems of Edward Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) (Grade: C+)

Heinrich Boll (1917-) was born in Cologne, GER on December 21, 1917. Brothers Judd recommends The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum: Or How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead (1974)

Anthony Powell (1905-75) was born in London, ENG on December 21, 1905. Read Orrin's review of A Dance to the Music of Time (Grade: B-)

Cicily Isabel Fairfield (Rebecca West), (1892-1983) was born in London, ENG on December 21, 1892. Brothers Judd recommends her classic travelogue Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia (1941) and read Orrin's reviews of 1900 (1982)(Grade: A-) andThe Return of the Soldier (1918) (Grade: A+)

Steven Spielberg (1946- ) was born in Cincinnati, OH on December 18, 1946. Read Orrin's review of Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)

Alfred Bester was born December 18, 1913. Brothers Judd recommends The Demolished Man (1953)(Alfred Bester 1913-87).

William Safire (1929-) was born in New York, NY on December 17, 1929. Brothers Judd recommends Freedom: A Novel of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War.

Penelope (Knox) Fitzgerald, was born on December 17, 1916. Brothers Judd recommends Offshore (1979)(Penelope Fitzgerald 1916-2000).

Ford Madox Ford (Ford Herman Hueffer)(1873-1939) was born in Surrey, UK on December 17, 1873. Read Orrin's review of The Good Soldier (1915) (Grade: B-)

Philip K. Dick (1928-82) was born on December 16, 1928. Read Orrin's review of Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) (1968)(Grade: B-)