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Welcome to Good Old Reads!
We provide book reviews of vintage literary treasures. We’ll tell you if they’re worth reading and why. And where you might be able to find them.
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May’s Featured Review
The Edge of Darkness (1957) by Mary Ellen Chase
Quote of the Month
“And when people shrink from competition and arrange matters so that they never have to compete, there is only one possible interpretation: Those people are afraid they cannot win.”
From Color Blind by Margaret Halsey (1946)
New Book Reviews
Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography (1913)
Theodore Roosevelt
This book describes the kind of presidential leadership America hasn’t seen for perhaps 60 years..
To Kill A Mockingbird (1960)
Harper Lee
Lee presents an accurate picture of United States in the 1930s. Despite being a great nation in many ways, America had horrific warts.
Banned
Music By Max Steiner (2020)
Steven C. Smith
Max Steiner was an enthralling individual—a genius at his craft, a loyal and charitable friend, and perhaps a tragic failure as a husband and father.
Coming Soon!
Leadership In Turbulent Times (2018)
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Greatest Short Stories, Vol. 4 (1940)
Various Authors (edited by P.F. Collier & Son Corporation)
Here, There, Elsewhere (2013)
William Least Heat-Moon
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925)
Anita Loos
Read a Banned Book!
Good Old Reads supports the awareness efforts of PEN America regarding the wholesale book bans in American public schools and libraries.
