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Book Review: Potted History by Catherine Horwood

A fascinating study of something we usually take for granted. There are lots of books about how to care for house plants - but this is the first time that anyone has looked at how these plants came to be in our homes. Catherine charts the [...]

Posted On : Feb, 06 2008 | Comments : 0

Featured Book Review: The Tree of Meaning by Robert Bringhur...

As Penelope Fitzgerald observed, "no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he [or she] thinks it is — in other words, not a thing, but a think." Think, if you wi [...]

Posted On : Feb, 04 2008 | Comments : 0

Book review - "Building Moral Intelligence: The Seven Essent...

Do you believe that “it takes a village to raise a child” and “our children are our future”? If so, then you understand that somehow we all must play a part in the moral education of children, to ensure their future [...]

Posted On : Jan, 28 2008 | Comments : 0

Book review - "Building Moral Intelligence: The Seven Essent...

Posted On : Jan, 26 2008 | Comments : 0

Book Review: The Flying Camel And The Golden Hump by Aharon ...

Was there ever such a relationship as that between the author and the critic? Some have likened it to the parasitical tick feeding from a host body, the one being completely dependent on the other for its existence. For, if not for the writ [...]

Posted On : Jan, 24 2008 | Comments : 0

Featured Book Review: Betty Smith: Life of the Author of A T...

“And without true modesty, I am a world famous writer. A hundred years after I’m dead, people will still be reading, “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.”’ –Betty Smith in a letter to her granddaughter Although a [...]

Posted On : Jan, 23 2008 | Comments : 0

Book Review: The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan

My father died when he was only 59, and Kelly Corrigan's memoir, The Middle Place, brings so many memories back about my relationship with him. The book tells the story of the year Corrigan discovered she had breast cancer, but it's m [...]

Posted On : Jan, 22 2008 | Comments : 1

BOOK REVIEW | Due Considerations

American arts and letters have been blessed with few great generalist critics over the years, and fewer still have written novels. The most obvious example, Edmund Wilson, wasn’t much of a novelist. The other fellow who comes to mind, [...]

Posted On : Jan, 21 2008 | Comments : 0

Featured Book Review: The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of ...

A Jewish Nazi? Just reading the title with those two incompatible words, and one can see why this book has been published and pushed. If you think you’ve heard all the stories involving World War II, well clearly you haven’t.O [...]

Posted On : Jan, 17 2008 | Comments : 0

Book Review: Killer Year edited by Lee Child

Many people don't read short stories, but when there's a collection by some of the new, innovative crime writers, it demands attention. When Lee Child, author of the bestselling Jack Reacher novels, edits a collection called Killer Ye [...]

Posted On : Jan, 16 2008 | Comments : 0

World Wide Work reviews books, music and more

This edition of the free bulletin, World Wide Work, is published by the American Labor Education Center, an independent nonprofit founded in 1979. WORLD WIDE WORK Powell’s the unionized alternative to Amazon.com for buying and sel [...]

Posted On : Jan, 01 2008 | Comments : 0

Book review: 'The Giant's House'

According to Peggy Cort, the lonely and socially inept small-town librarian protagonist of “The Giant’s House,” librarians are not all bitter spinsters. Really, it all depends on what your definition of a spinster is thoug [...]

Posted On : Dec, 18 2007 | Comments : 0

Audio book reviews: Beach reading served up as sound

There is nothing better than pure escapism when it is too hot to think. With that thought in mind, let's have some fun. We can always get around to improving our minds later.No one is more entertaining than Ron McLarty. You may recall that [...]

Posted On : Jun, 30 2007 | Comments : 0

Book Reviews

Deadly Kisses By Brenda Joyce ISBN: 0778322688 Pages: 464 Historical Publisher: MIRA Time Period: New York, 1902 I picked this book to read while traveling. I rarely read romances but I wanted something light. This is not a roma [...]