Posts tagged with ‘Book Reviews’

  • Book Review: Dancers Among Us

    By on December 7, 2013

    If you have a dancer on your Christmas gift list this is a wonderful book. I loved it and...

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    Polly Castor
  • Two Cool New Science Books

    By on November 19, 2013

    Our teenaged homeschooled daughter is very enthused by these two new books. Originally seeing both in a great local...

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    Polly Castor
  • Book Review: 100 Ways to Motivate Others

    By on November 13, 2013

    Last weekend, when I drove out of state and back, I chose this to listen to in the car,...

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    Polly Castor
  • Book Review: A Small Farm in Maine

    By on November 10, 2013

    I really enjoyed this small volume and give it four stars. I chose to read it for my memoir...

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    Polly Castor
  • Book Review: Beautiful Ruins

    By on October 21, 2013

    I didn’t like this book much and am posting this mostly to let you know not to waste your...

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    Polly Castor
  • Book Review: The Widower’s Tale

    By on October 3, 2013

    I really enjoyed this novel and give it five stars. Chewing it over while I slept, my subconscious awoke...

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    Polly Castor
  • Book Review: The Inheritance of Loss

    By on September 23, 2013

    This book enjoyed acclaim back in 2006 when it came out, and won the Booker Prize, at which point...

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    Polly Castor
  • Book Review: Handling the Truth

    By on September 11, 2013

    I enjoyed this book and found it gives a good introduction to writing in the genre of memoir. The...

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    Polly Castor
  • Book Review: Robert McCloskey

    By on August 22, 2013

    While I was in Maine and in his stomping grounds, I read this biography of one of my favorite...

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    Polly Castor
  • Book Review: Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore

    By on July 18, 2013

    I loved this book and give it five stars. It was a delight to read – pure fun: inventive,...

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    Polly Castor
  • Book Review: The Marriage Plot

    By on July 6, 2013

    You can see why this author has won the Pulitzer Prize; he writes well.  That said, I still didn’t...

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    Polly Castor
  • Book Review: Wild

    By on June 4, 2013

    This book is about a troubled young lady who hiked 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail by herself....

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    Polly Castor

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