![]() ![]() ![]() I have never thought of myself as someone equipped to assume full responsibility for a child’s education, but at the time I thought I could handle a couple of months. She didn’t mind so much, but I felt guilty about it. The timing of the move meant that she ended up missing the first two months of her fifth grade year. Two years ago, we moved from Chicago to California just as my daughter’s fifth grade school year was supposed to begin. ![]() ![]() As the 5600.000 unique monthly visitors to already know, no one turns the ironic absurdities of history and literature into comedic fodder as hilarious as Beaton.” From the book description on Goodreads Hark! A Vagrant features sexy Batman, the true stories behind classic Nancy Drew covers, and Queen Elizabeth doing the albatross. Anthony is, of course, a “Samantha,” and that the polite banality of Canadian culture never gets old. She deftly points out what really happened when Brahms fell asleep listening to Liszt, that the world’s first hipsters were obviously the Incroyables and the Merveilleuses from eighteenth-century France, that Susan B. No era or tome emerges unscathed as Beaton rightly skewers the Western world’s revolutionaries, leaders, sycophants, and suffragists while equally honing her wit on the hapless heroes, heroines, and villains of the best-loved fiction. “ Hark! A Vagrant is an uproarious romp through history and literature seen through the sharp, contemporary lens of New Yorker cartoonist and comics-sensation Kate Beaton. ![]()
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