Blogs Posts in Other Books category; 387 blog posts

Book Review: Hows My Driving by Steve Dziadik

Oh, we have all done it. Some person causes us grief, a motorist stalls at an intersection, the light is green, but you miss it! Forced to wait for the lights to recycle, you silently utter curses, you beep the horn, you may even demonstrat [...]

Posted On : Jan, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

Travel book reviews: Life and Kipling Abroad

With a broad-ranging sweep across the world, Gunton and Holmes have captured and recorded some of the stranger manifestations of animal behaviour. A useful location map at the front of the book illustrates the fact that extreme animal beha [...]

Posted On : Jan, 05 2010 | Comments : 0

A World by Itself - a History of the British Isles review

When I was growing up, my most prized possession was a battered copy of Professor J M D Meiklejohn’s New History of England and Great Britain, published in 1903. From the very first words, “The British Empire, which now stretche [...]

Posted On : Jan, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Book World reviews Mo Hayder's 'Skin'

Too little action is not the usual problem in popular fiction; the problem is too much. Not wanting to lose the impatient reader, writers toss in everything but the kitchen sink. That is more or less what happens in Mo Hayder's "Skin,& [...]

Posted On : Jan, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

Travel book reviews - A Carpet to Ride and Great Yoga Retrea...

No stranger to adventure, Alexander was born in Turkey but grew up in Beirut and spent two years at sea before he moved to Khiva, a desert oasis in Uzbekistan. Fuelled by a childhood fascination with the Soviet Union, he spent time in Tash [...]

Posted On : Dec, 30 2009 | Comments : 0

The Book of the Decade

For its storytelling, for the global buzz it generated and for the fact it created a new generation of readers, one book stood a full wizard's cap above the rest Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final instalment in J.K. [...]

Posted On : Dec, 26 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Reviews by Young Adults

Jack. He’s the guy who does the whole “Jack and the Bean Stalk” thing. You know, the story where he gets the beans and tries to plant them to try to get the golden goose so that he can give it to his mother so she can fix [...]

Posted On : Dec, 19 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review - Creating Crochet Fabric

This isn't just another crochet project book; it's an exploration of the craft's creative possibilities! Designer Dora Ohrenstein closely examines crochet's three basic variables-hook, yarn, and stitch-and how their infinite combinations cr [...]

Posted On : Dec, 18 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review - Pleased But Not Satisfied by David Sokol

One of the more popular management techniques taught in business schools is the Japanese concept of Kaizen. Kaizen refers to a philosophy of continuous improvement that, when applied to business situations, leads managers to relentlessly fo [...]

Posted On : Dec, 17 2009 | Comments : 0

The Runner's Rule Book - a book review

If that was all I had to say about the book, it would still come with an enthusiastic recommendation. However, it's the way in which he provides these "rules" that make it worthy of the RunOregon stamp of approval: •It's fun [...]

Posted On : Dec, 16 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review - Better Than Lennon by John Cherry

The Music And Talent Of Paul McCartney I have to admit that I dropped everything when this book arrived. As a music reviewer and music lover, I do enjoy a good discussion about almost any aspect of the subject. In fact two days ago I ran a [...]

Posted On : Dec, 15 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review - The Way Of Forgiveness by D. Patrick Miller

This is actually a makeover of the 1994 release ‘A Little Book Of Forgiveness’, with an additional 15 years to reflect on the subject D. Patrick Miller has updated his ideas and strategies. Forgiveness is a complex subject, and [...]

Posted On : Dec, 12 2009 | Comments : 0

Travel book reviews - Los Angeles and Magnetic North

Wheeler has had a lifetime's infatuation with the Antarctic and latterly the Arctic, which she says "perfectly captures the elegiac melancholy of middle age", and it is elegant prose such as this that characterises the book. This [...]

Posted On : Dec, 10 2009 | Comments : 0

Where Angels Fear to Tread - A Remy Chandler Novel

Six year-old Zoe York has been taken and her mother has come to Remy for help. She shows him crude, childlike drawings that she claims are Zoe's visions of the future, everything leading up to her abduction, and some beyond. Like the pict [...]