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My long-time blog readers know that Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy is one of my all-time favorite books. I thought you might like to
I really enjoyed this novel and give it five stars. Chewing it over while I slept, my subconscious awoke me too early this morning wondering how it was
This book enjoyed acclaim back in 2006 when it came out, and won the Booker Prize, at which point I put it on my reading list. Reviews of this book are all over the lot,
Here are Mark Twain’s Rules of Writing (from Mark Twain’s scathing essay on the Literary Offenses of James Fenimore Cooper):
I enjoyed this book and found it gives a good introduction to writing in the genre of memoir. The author has written several memoirs and is a professor of the subject at
While I was in Maine and in his stomping grounds, I read this biography of one of my favorite children’s book authors, Robert McCloskey. He wrote, Make Way for Ducklings, Blueberries for Sal, Homer Price, Lentil, Centerburg Tales, One Morning in Maine, Bert Dow, and my personal favorite, Time of Wonder. (I poured over Time … Read more
I loved this book and give it five stars. It was a delight to read – pure fun: inventive, imaginative, contemporary and totally refreshing.
Today I made my yearly sojourn to the Newtown library sale. Other than buying about ten movie DVD’s and about five novels for myself, I mostly bought board books and picture books as gifts for young ones in my life.
You can see why this author has won the Pulitzer Prize; he writes well. That said, I still didn’t much like this book, and since it was highly acclaimed and gushingly reviewed in 2011, I’m writing this post to tell you to save your time and read something else. This novel is intelligently written with … Read more
An Era Ends
It is normal and good.
No big deal in one way.
Totally obvious and natural.
But still there is a twinge.
We were expecting her
when she first visited that room
still in the womb
and it was in that space God gave us a sign
and we knew we would buy this house.
I was in charge of our homeschooling group’s Used Curriculum Sale again. We held it two years ago and again yesterday. We did not have the crowds we hoped for, but most vendors reported selling a third to a half of what they brought. I did particularly well because I had fourteen Great Courses for … Read more
This book is about a troubled young lady who hiked 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail by herself. I found it to be a compelling read, although like her feet, it rubbed raw in places.
This book was a pleasant surprise. I found it on the library’s new book shelf, and didn’t expect to like it as well as I did. It is the second in a series and you may wish to begin with the first, titled Paris to Die For, which turns out to be well liked too. … Read more
As we head into a long holiday weekend, I thought it would be a good time to share some great sources for free ebooks. Project Gutenberg has 42,000 free ebooks available for download that were previously published by professional publishers but have expired copyrights. Manybooks.net has 29,000 free ebooks for Kindle, Nook and iPad. Feedbooks.com … Read more
I’m a Herman Wouk fan from as far back as the 70’s. I loved this recent light work written in his nineties in the form of correspondence – email, fax, skype, texting, etc. Oh, to be able to be so “with it” at such an age! The title refers to the story of Moses, which … Read more
I listened to this audio book because I was intrigued by the two videos I include at the bottom of this post. My basic review of this book is to watch those and skip the book, which was lots to wade through, unnecessarily complete with a systematic review of technology, history and business. Alternatively, you … Read more
If you either love Maine or love watercolors you’ll enjoy this artist. I recommend this lovely book from which the photos below come.