These are some of the books I read during last half a century or so, and some of the thoughts, questions, reactions and insights, emotions - and so forth -, evoked on reading them, either then or later sometime during the interim years and decades, or even thinking over now, that are summed up here while trying to record my impressions about what I read.
Friday, October 17, 2008
The Official Preppy Handbook; by Lisa Birnbach.
Bought on impulse, but found very helpful in explaining a lot that was understood in the ambient culture but not apparent to a stranger - this one explains codes of conduct and dressing and accessories that are followed or at least were for a long time, by the established old rich - and it is apparent why. Mostly it is good sense, with some few capers for youth allowed.