I may have to drive up to Minneapolis sometime soon and check out Open Book. If it is powerful enough to revitalize a neighborhood all on its own, it seems worth making a literary pilgrimage for.
By the way, I got tagged again by chartroose to write 6 Random Things about myself. You can check out [...]
I gave up on my April ER book “Two Brothers: One North, One South” by David H. Jones. I simply do not understand the audience. It seemed that the author was using big words just for the sake of using them, yet the dialog was almost insulting in its assumption of the reader’s intelligence. Minus [...]
There are certain authors about whom much is said on LibraryThing. Authors like Margaret Atwood seems to be a special favorite, as does Geraldine Brooks. I had never read anything by either of these women and felt quite deficient. I will be reading Atwood’s, “The Handmaid’s Tale” in mid-May for a group [...]
I received this book from my friend The Literate Housewife who reviewed it and interviewed the author. She enjoyed it very much and thought I would as well, so she passed it on.
The basic question explored by “Eleanor Vs. Ike,” by author Robin Gerber, is what would have happened had the immensely popular Eleanor [...]
Journalist Sara Bongiorni is one of those people who habitually checks the bottom of everything that she buys to the “made in” country of origin, primarily just for curiosity’s sake. One Christmas, after stepping on a sharp, plastic, “made in China” toy, Bongiorni reflects on just how many of the Christmas goodies in her house [...]
The Last Queen: A Novel
C.W. Gortner
Ballantine Books
ISBN 978-0-345-50184-4, $25.00, Tentative Release date July 29, 2008
Reviewed by Jen Cardwell for Reader Views 04/08
Juana La Loca
4.5 Stars
C.W. Gortner’s “The Last Queen: A Novel” has all of the hallmarks of the typical historical fiction novel that is so popular today. Juana is a passionate woman who strongly desires [...]
I promise this will relate to books, just bear with me.
I told my fiance last night that we are going to become ‘Flexitarians,’ essentially vegetarians who occasionally will eat meat, generally on special occasions. He definitely pouted at me when I told him this, but I’m the one who does most of the cooking, [...]
Historical Genesis: From Adam to Abraham
Author: Richard James Fischer
Publisher: University Press of America
Published March 2008
Reviewed by Jen Cardwell for Reader Views 04/08
The Science of Genesis
4 Stars
Was there a real man named Adam? What is the location of the Garden of Eden? Who is Cain worried will kill him after he kills his brother, if Adam’s [...]
I found one more contest for today, and I didn’t want to just add it to the old post and not have people see it, because I think this is a good one:
Tripping Towards Lucidity is having a contest to win a copy of The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming in honor of Earth Day. [...]
Edith Felbar’s Queen of Shadows is the story of Queen Isabella of England, later called the “She-Wolf of France”, queen of King Edward II. Isabella’s story is told by the fictional Gwenith, a Welsh woman who comes to court to serve her. Although Gwenith’s original motive for coming to court is to exact revenge upon [...]
