Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt · first published 1996
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"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. in the 1930s and 40s. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he
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on “Stephen King: Can a Novelist Be Too Productive? (2015)” ↗Not taking it personally is probably the important take-away. I always recall Frank McCourt in Angela's Ashes talking about "the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years" as it summed up much of the logic and reasoning [I mean that ironically] that led to thousands of murders…
on “The cult of memory: when history does more harm than good” ↗The Frank McCourt? Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt?
on “I practiced Ben Franklin's 13 virtue system for 3 years” ↗…"should know." My parents expected me to know many things I would've picked up in my environment, had I grown up in the same one my parents did. This kind of knowledge is illustrated in Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes when the city born lads see a cow for the first time, and onlooking adults wonder if they are mentally deficient. "What are Cows!? Cows are cows!" Another example of this kind of knowledge: When my family…
on “What if Finland’s great teachers taught in U.S. schools?” ↗Rest in peace, Frank McCourt. I missed Angela's Ashes, but Teacher Man looks like it would be worth the read. What a great reminder of what a good teacher is capable of.
on “My students forged the notes. I turned them into a lesson plan.” ↗I was intrigued by this question ever since I read Angela's ashes by Frank McCourt. Seems like his father survived on porter alone (although obviously this is told though a child's eyes). Beer seems to contain around 1% protein which isn't much. Carbs should be plenty…
on “How long can you survive on beer alone?” ↗