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Book Review - A Hidden Wholeness by Parker Palmer

This book was like taking my soul to the most relaxing, nourishing spa imaginable. I love anything that spins counter-culture and this book is it! Parker Palmer shares in his DVD (Circle of Trust, it comes with the book) how participants [...]

Posted On : Jun, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Review - For Women and Finding The Right Man - For Wome...

“The urge to find a mate is deeply rooted into human biology. But there’s more to the selection process than simple lust or ticking biological reproduction clocks. The finding of just the right partner to go through life with [...]

Posted On : Jun, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Critical eye - book reviews roundup

His great skill is to make daily life simultaneously strange and familiar, and in so doing help us to recognise ourselves. At Home is a treasure: don't leave home without it." So Judith Flanders judged Bill Bryson's At Home: [...]

Posted On : Jun, 07 2010 | Comments : 0

BOOK REVIEW - Deadly harvest

With money at the root, opium at the core, smugglers at the back and the Taliban in the lead, an ancient form of commerce feeds a burgeoning terror industry. Gretchen Peters is convinced that hunting down the elusive top tier leadership [...]

Posted On : Jun, 05 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Reviews - New Thrillers

Our book critic Alan Cheuse, himself a novelist, created his own little book club this spring, one that focuses on thrillers. He has read himself through the newest batch of commercial contenders for best rip-roaring narrative, and [...]

Posted On : Jun, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

BOOK REVIEW - Debut thriller captures a foreign China

Recently I gave a talk on the subject of book reviews. In the audience I noticed one particularly intent listener. After my talk was done, this individual approached me and said the words all reviewers hate hearing: "I am a writer, [...]

Posted On : Jun, 01 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Review - Bobby’s Diner by Susan Wingate

Book reviewing is a very subjective occupation and different reviewers will pick up on different aspects of a book. I received a press release for Susan Wingate’s latest book Easy As Pie At Bobby’s Diner and decided to invest [...]

Posted On : May, 31 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Review – Powering The Future

This week I read “Powering The Future,” by Daniel B. Botkin. I was motoring along learning about our current energy mix (fossil fuels, fossil fuels, fossil fuels) and then moved on to the section about alternative energy and [...]

Posted On : May, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

Travel book reviews: Among the Iranians and Roadside America

This compelling book is the result of 100,000 miles Margioles travelled across the United States over three decades. In it he rebels against the increasingly standardised American life and culture alongside the new interstates, chang [...]

Posted On : May, 19 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Review - John Edgar Wideman's Briefs

Novelist John Edgar Wideman's newest book is a collection of short pieces, some of them as short as a page, even a sentence. The book is called "Briefs: Stories for the Palm of the Mind," and Alan Cheuse has this review. AL [...]

Posted On : May, 13 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Review - Iron Butterflies

A profound transition is taking place in our society, a revolution that is largely hidden, and led predominantly by women. A society once based on domination and power over others is beginning to crumble as an era of cooperation and comm [...]

Posted On : May, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Book review - The Long Song, by Andrea Levy

Andrea Levy's insightful and inspired fifth novel, "The Long Song," reminds us that she is one of the best historical novelists of her generation. By employing a charming metafictional conceit -- a printer is publishing [...]

Posted On : May, 08 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Review - The Man With Two Arms

The 2010 baseball season has begun and our book reviewer, Alan Cheuse, has found what he considers the first fine baseball novel of the season. It's called "The Man With Two Arms," and it's written by Chicago writ [...]

Posted On : May, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Review - Party Animal

A certain British television series about two slightly debaucherous ladies implied the best kind of gossip is about people “you don’t know.” After reading Party Animals, the life of Allan Carr by Robert Hofler, I co [...]