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LOOKER: The Title Suggests a Kaleidoscope of Meanings in this Enthralling N
2007-05-17 14:03:00 Looker: A Novel by Stanley Bennett Clay Reviewed by Grady Harp, an Amazon Top 10 Reviewer Stanley Bennett Clay takes chances: he knows he takes them and unlike Captain Scott’s diaries from 1912 as he lay dying in the Antarctic in which he admits the chances turned out against him, the chances Clay takes work very much in ... More About: Fiction , Title , Kaleidoscope , Look , Meanings
One of the Great American Novels!
2007-05-16 18:09:00 A Long Day’s Dying by Frederick Buechner Grady Harp is an Amazon Top 10 Reviewer Frederick Buechner is now, at 80 years of age, highly respected and well known for his teachings and writings centered on the spiritual life. Brook Street Press will change that in introducing this reprint of Buechner’s brilliant 1950 novel A LONG DAY’S DYING written just ... More About: Fiction , Novels , Great , American , Great America
This Author Says His Obnoxious Neighbor Drove Him to Murder
2007-05-16 17:59:00 Walkin The Dog by Darwin Demers You and your family have lived quietly in your neighborhood for years. You have a good job, do your best to raise your kids well, and have friendly relationships with your neighbors. One day a new family moves in next door. Within days, the father comes to your door complaining that your ... More About: Murder , Non-Fiction , Author , Thor , Rove
Ditch Debt Using the 60/40 Principle
2007-05-15 21:40:00 Ditching Debt and Money…It’s Not Just for Rich People! by Janine Bolon Ever wonder how some people manage to get it together financially and then keep it that way and others don’t? This book tells you how to manage your finances now and in the future using the 60/40 principle. The 60/40 Principle is the backbone of a simple system Bolon ... More About: Business , Non-Fiction , Sing
Hijacked Identity and Electronic Forgery
2007-05-15 08:05:00 Wearing the Spider by Susan Schaab Harriet Klausner is Amazon’s #1 Reviewer Evie Sullivan is a senior lawyer in the law firm of Howard, Rolland and Stewart and is on the fast track to make partner. She devotes most of the hours in the day to her clients, which leaves little time for a social life. Before her ... More About: Electronic , Fiction , Forgery , Tron , Identity
Teen Pregnancy and Lost Love Team Up in New Novel
2007-05-14 18:12:00 No Matter What by Jordana Ryan Haunted by her involvement in her parents death at the age of ten, Cassandra has never been confident in the love that others felt for her?not her adoptive parents, her friends and certainly not the man she loved with all her heart. So, after giving herself to her high school sweetheart on ... More About: Lost , Love , Fiction , Pregnancy , Romance
A Near Perfect Novel of Luminous Prose
2007-05-14 07:28:00 Grief: A Novel by Andrew Holleran Reviewed by Grady Harp, an Amazon Top 10 Reviewer Andrew Holleran may not be the most prolific writer on the scene (’The Beauty of Men’, ‘In September, the Light Changes’, ‘Dancer from the Dance’, ‘Nights in Aruba’) but he most assuredly one of our finest. His extraordinarily well-crafted novels, novellas, and short stories can be appreciated on many levels - interest of theme (Holleran is one of the few writers who find writing about gay life as natural a topic for creating universal themes as any other), quality of prose (liquid, rich in imagery and atmosphere, and creatively eloquent), and pertinence of philosophy. In a brief 150 pages Holleran relates via an unnamed narrator the experiences of life in its brevity and death in its finality. Having moved from Florida where he had been the caretaker of his ill mother with whom he never discussed his life as a gay man and suffers from her loss as well ... More About: Prose , Perfect , Lumi
Review: Nine Months in August
2007-05-14 07:25:00 Nine Mont h s in August by Adriana Bourgoin Harriet Klausner is Amazon’s #1 Review er In Massachusetts caterer and events planner Gretchen Fox always uses lists to plan her day. However, she is stunned when an unforeseen circumstance nukes the best laid long term plans of mice and married women when she learns she is pregnant. Her husband Fredrik is euphoric with the news, which just adds guilt to Gretchen’s despondency. Her best friends since their Smith College days together, Meredith and Louisa, are ecstatic as the three musketeers are pregnant at the same time; their joy makes Gretchen feel more miserable. Besides coping with morning sickness 24/7, and her mother, Gretchen fears she will lose her position as the family friendly era ended when compassionate conservatism became in. As months towards her August due date pass, Gretchen begins to feel an iota of happiness that with each day grows until she begins to find bliss with the coming of their baby. This fascinating ...
Review: And Murder for Dessert
2007-05-13 18:22:00 And Murder for Dessert by Kathleen Delaney Harriet Klausner is Amazon’s #1 Review er In California, realtor Ellen McKenzie and her fiancĂ© Police Chief Dan Dunham attend the Harvest Festival Dinner at the Silver Springs Winery in nearby Santa Louisa. Though somewhat estranged from her snobby sister Ellen and Dan go to celebrate her niece Sabrina’s husband Mark Tortelli becoming the new winemaker; although Ellen did not know her niece married as she was not invited or even informed until now. As Chef Otto explodes over minor inconveniences, his rival Chef Frank arrives to celebrate his son being named the winemaker. Frank and Otto are more than competitors as they hate each other with a passion that rivals their love of cooking. However, it is not Frank who the police, including Dan, believe killed Otto, found floating in the fermenting tank; it is Sabrina they suspect. Not one to sit idly by while her niece goes down, Ellen investigates; even though she is unprepared for ... More About: Esse
Darwin Demers and The Tail That Wags the Dog
2007-05-12 07:27:00 Walkin The Dog by Darwin Demers What happens when a family?s peace of mind and idyllic lifestyle are destroyed by a new neighbor? Just how much is a person expected to tolerate? Read this true, real life drama as it unfolds for the Demers family culminating in explosive results! Laugh and cry as you find yourself asking?.What would ... More About: Religion , Non-Fiction , That , Tail
Stepping inside the mind of Marcel Proust: An Inquiry
2007-05-12 05:04:00 The Proust Questionnaire by William C. Carter Reviewed by Grady Harp, an Amazon Top 10 Reviewer Marcel Proust is still somewhat of an enigma from the past century. A man whose hefty multi-volume opus ‘A la Recherche Du Temps Perdu’ continues to delight, puzzle, stimulate all the arts even today, Proust has had many biographies and treatises written ... More About: Non-Fiction , Mind , Inside , Side
A Luminous and Inspirational Tale for Children
2007-05-11 20:15:00 The Story of Kitten Cuckoo by Ed Baker Reviewed by Grady Harp, an Amazon Top 10 Reviewer Ed Baker has created a richly colorful story about friendship and personal values in his newest children’s book THE STORY OF KITTEN CUCKOO, a little book with a big message about courage, choice, and individuality told in poetic form. Baker not only ... More About: Inspirational , Children , General , Book Reviews , Child
A Luminous and Inspirational Tale for Children
2007-05-11 08:06:00 The Story of Kitten Cuckoo by Ed Baker Reviewed by Grady Harp, an Amazon Top 10 Reviewer Ed Baker has created a richly colorful story about friendship and personal values in his newest children’s book THE STORY OF KITTEN CUCKOO, a little book with a big message about courage, choice, and individuality told in poetic form. Baker not only writes well and with a verse sense that is sure to please young children as well as entertain any adult, but he also has provided the paintings that illustrate the story as well as marking lessons for learning on their own. Kitten Cuckoo is a strange appearing blue little kitten with a red X mark on his head (he is the pet of a news reporter Harrison Cruz!) who meets a baby elephant named Paquille E. Derm. Though the two make a strange pair, they play games, eat and chit chat with each other much to the laughter of their fellow animals. They travel to San Francisco where Paquille is captured while the two are sleeping the night in the streets. ... More About: Inspirational , Children , Child , Rational , Tale
The Tail That Wags the Dog . . . Bad Neighbors and the Law
2007-05-11 07:27:00 Walkin The D og by Darwin Demers Life for the Demers family is no walk in the park. With the addition of a troublesome new neighbor to their quiet, idyllic town, their home becomes a prison and their lives a living hell. One night, the fight culminates with explosive results—the shooting of the family’s neighbor, Steven Lee, by Darwin Demers. As the Demers family struggle to find the answer that will finally set them free, they discover that though life isn’t fair, it is a gift. Watch as Darwin Demers’s true-life drama, Walkin’ the Dog, unfolds through both trial and tribulation. The turbulent events that take place in the story taught author Demers the meaning of love and forgiveness, a lesson he is eager to share with readers. “This could have happened to you as easily as it did to me,” says Demers. Born in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, he retired from a successful career with B.C. Telephone Company after 36 years. He then turned to writing, and in Walkin’ the ... More About: That , Neighbors , Tail , The Law
Collaborative Writing: When Two Heads are Better Than One
2007-05-07 16:23:00 This article on collaborative writing was submitted by Heather Hepler, co-author of Scrambled Eggs at Midnight and Dream Factory I was so happy a few weeks ago when a boy in the third row of a freshman English class raised his hand and asked us, ?Where do you come up with your characters? They are so?um? random.? I think ... More About: Writing , When , Better , Head , Bett
Little Known History: The Beginning of Slavery
2007-05-07 14:00:00 Săo Tome: Journey to the Abyss–Portugal’s Stolen Children by Paul D. Cohn Grady Harp is an Amazon Top 10 Reviewer Săo Tomé is an inordinately readable novel based on fact, one of those discoveries that not only introduces a fine author but also reveals information known by all too few of us. In his Foreword author Paul D. Cohn reveals ... More About: History , Fiction , Slavery , Stor , Know
Review: A Tale of Terrorism vs. Freedom Fighters in Rhodesia
2007-05-06 19:07:00 Scatterlings of Africa by Peter Davies The setting for this gritty, uncompromising book, written by Peter Davies, is Rhodesia in the 1970?s, shortly before becoming Zimbabwe in1980. It tells a story of a white officer in the war against the insurgents, Lieutenant Ron Cartwright. Ron is obsessed with catching ? and killing ? Comrade Gadziwa, a freedom fighter ... More About: Freedom , Terrorism , Fiction , Fighters , Review
A Subtle, Sophisticated, Thoroughly Entertaining Art Book for Children of A
2007-05-06 13:38:00 The Serif Fairy by Rene Siegfried THE SERIF FAIRY is a delight from every aspect. Though conceived as a children’s book, it is also a teaching tool of the sort that makes learning fun while challenging both the adult reader and the child. Writer and graphic designer Rene Siegfried composed this fable in German (it is sensitively translated ... More About: Children , Book Reviews , Book , Child , Hist
Review: The Shakespeare Code
2007-05-05 18:12:00 The Shakespeare Code by Virginia M. Fellows Virginia M. Fellows executes beautifully the telling of what some might call only a theory and others argue a fact. William Shakespeare had neither the upbringing nor true talent to have written literature?s finest works; moreover, the true identity of the author of our beloved works is none other than Francis ... More About: Review
Tomorrow is Today?s Backup Plan . . . a Writer?s Journey
2007-05-05 14:54:00 Over the past few months I have had the great pleasure of interviewing a fair number of authors, many of them first-timers. What I found interesting was a consistent theme, that of dissatisfaction and frustration with the publishing world. Unfortunately most authors are unwilling to talk publicly about their experiences, no doubt wary that ?stirring the ... More About: Backup , Journey , General , Today , Writer
Colm Tóibín: Master Storyteller
2007-05-04 12:42:00 Mothers and Sons: Stor ies by Colm Toibin Grady Harp is an Amazon Top 10 Reviewer One of our most intensely refined and challenging writers of the day, Colm Tóibín presents a new set of nine short stories correlated by the theme and title of mothers and sons, stories that mine the always fascinating relationship between mothers and sons, both ... More About: Fiction , Master , Tory , Mast
Review: The Last Full Measure, Jeff Shaara?s Novel of the Civil War
2007-05-03 12:09:00 The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara After reveling in Michael Shaara’s The Killer Angels, I doubted that his son, Jeff, could even come close to attaining the emotional connection to the historical figures that Michael achieved in his Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the battle of Gettysburg. I was wrong. The Last Full Measure begins after the three-day Battle of Gettysburg ... More About: Fiction , Book Reviews , Review , View
Review: Through the Eyes of a Survivor, from Pre WWII-Poland to Modern Amer
2007-05-03 00:54:00 Through the Eyes of a Survivor by Colette Waddell ?I have told this story to Colette for many reasons. I want people to understand what happened during World War II, to know what was done to us Jews for no reason at all, other than that we happened to be Jewish. I also want young people to ... More About: Poland , Non-Fiction , Book Reviews
Review: Cyber-Lies, When Finding the Truth Matters
2007-05-02 21:08:00 Cyber Lies: When Finding the Truth Matters by John Paul Lucich The synopsis on the back of the book describes ?Cyber Lies? to its fullest: ?written for the spouse who has a very limited knowledge of computers. Finally! Someone recognized that the spouses may not be knowledgeable about computers and may not know how to ?spy? on ... More About: Non-Fiction , Book Reviews , Review , View
Review: Ricochet, a Political Thriller
2007-04-26 05:55:00 Ricochet by P.M. Terrell This book had me hooked from the very first sentence. P.M. Terrell is a master storyteller. In ?Ricochet? the author uses her real-life experience in computers and software to weave a diabolical story including terrorism, murder, espionage and illegal immigration. It is fast moving from the very beginning to the end. The story begins when ... More About: Political , Fiction , Review , Thriller , Whodunnit
Review: Chew on Things, Words of Wisdom from a Worried Canine
2007-04-25 15:00:00 Chew on Things - It Helps You Think: Words of Wisdom from a Worried Canine by Casey B. Worrywart (with a little help from Iris Bell) As a canine lover, the subtitle of the book caught my eye and even more so that the words of wisdom are being ?told to? the author, Dr. Iris Bell. Knowing ... More About: Review , View
Review: Hot Water by Kathryn Jordan
2007-04-25 14:03:00 Hot Water is Kathryn Jordan ’s first novel. In her first novel, Hot Water, Kathryn Jordan depicts a woman who takes wants to escape her abusive marriage for a weekend retreat in a luxury spa. So, she hires a gorgeous man through the Internet as her escort, buys sexy lingerie, and leases a red Lamborghini Murcielago to complete ... More About: Fiction , Book Reviews , Review
Vietnam Era Fighter Pilot Writes Confessions of a War Criminal
2007-04-24 23:32:00 Ron Standerfer served as a fighter pilot in Vietnam , and is the author of The Eagle’s Last Flight, a semi-autobiographical tale of his years spent as a pilot in the Air Force. Ron wrote this post in response to the breaking news about a lawsuit involving Vietnam vets and John Kerry. I am a war criminal. Yes, you ... More About: Confessions , Confession , Sion , Criminal
Author Interview: Matthew Fort, author of Eating Up Italy
2007-04-24 14:33:00 Eating Up Italy : Voyages on a Vespa by Matt hew Fort Matthew Fort is a British food critic and television personality. Interview by Simon Barrett Q: If I read it correctly you split your journey into 3 sections, one month for each. I heard a rumor that this was so you could check into a spa and get rid of the extra ... More About: Author , View
Review: Behind the Eyes
More articles from this author:2007-04-23 16:59:00 Behind the Eyes by Francisco X. Stork This is Francisco X. Stork?s second novel, and like his debut effort, The Way Of The Jaguar, it is aimed at the young adult market. He writes in a clear and straightforward style that is ideal for this genre. This is a style that many other authors should consider using. ... More About: Fiction , Book Reviews , Review , View 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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