KC’s Column

GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1709

“’Twas brillig and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.”

(the beginning of the poem “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898)

BEST BOOKS

Over the next four weeks I will continue to list the 25 best books I read in 2019:

20) A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain, 1880. In this travel book Twain mixes autobiographical mat…