Featured Reviews

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

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The Cattleman (2025) - Aaron Gwyn  (Grade:A-)

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

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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:
12/17/25:

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-)

Ludwig Van Beethoven was born December 16, 1770 in Bonn, Germany.

Jane Austen was born in 1775 in Steventon. UK on December 16, 1775.

Betty Smith (1904-) was born in Brooklyn, NY on December 15, 1904. Brothers Judd recommends A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943).

Theodore Weiss (1916-), poet and editor of the Quarterly Review of Literature, was born in Reading, PA on December 15, 1916. Read his poem: An Everlasting Once

Shirley Jackson (1919-65) was born in San Francisco, CA on December 14, 1919. Read Orrin & Guest reviews of The Lottery (1948)(Grade: A) & Orrin's reviews of The Sundial (1958) (Grade: B-) and We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962)(Grade: A+)

Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) was born in Rouen, France on December 12, 1821. Read Orrin's review of Madame Bovary (1857)(translated by Lowell Bair) (Grade: B+)

Frank Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey on December 12, 1915.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-) in Kislovodsk, Russia on December 11, 1918. Read Orrin's review of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1963)(Grade: A+)

Thomas McGuane (1939-) was born in Wyandotte, MI on December 11, 1939. Brothers Judd recommends his collection of hunting and fishing stories An Outside Chance

Jim Harrison (1937-) was born in Grayling, MI on December 11, 1937. Brothers Judd recommends his novel The Legends of the Fall

Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton (1926-84) was born in Montgomery, AL on December 11, 1926. Brothers Judd recommends the album Ball N Chain

Naguib Mahfouz (1911-) was born in Cairo, Egypt on December 11, 1911. Read Orrin's review of Palace of Desire: Book II of the Cairo Trilogy (1957) (Grade: C+)

Fiorello La Guardia (1882-1947) was born in New York, NY on December 11, 1882.

Rumer Godden (1907-98) was born in Eastbourne, Sussex, ENG on December 10, 1907. Read Orrin's review of Black Narcissus (1939)(Grade: B)

Mary Norton (1903-93) was born in London, ENG on December 10, 1903. She wrote the great childrens book The Borrowers (1953)

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was born in Amherst, MA on December 10, 1830. Brothers Judd recommends The Collected Poems