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Tonight's Reading: Book Review: Chocolat
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About books, mostly. Saturday, March 17, 2012. The central conflict, between Viane and the priest, plays out in the lives of a young wife, an older widow, a schoolboy, a man who loves his dog, and others. The narration alternates between the points of view of the priest and Viane. Unfortunately, only one of them is not a caricature. The tired cliché of the Church as the enemy of everything good is getting a little old. Can’t we all just get along? I'm claiming this book for two reading challenges: the.
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Tonight's Reading: Book Review: The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace
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About books, mostly. Monday, July 25, 2011. Book Review: The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace. Gary Chapman and Paul White. The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace. The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace. Business people who like this kind of flavor-of-the-month management self-help. Love languages fans. Neither one is me. In addition to the problems I had with this book that I’ve mentioned above, there were some other. Problems with the kindle ARC from netgalley. There...
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Tonight's Reading: Review: Case Histories
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About books, mostly. Saturday, April 12, 2014. British detective Jackson Brodie is working on three old cases: the disappearance of a toddler; the slasher murder of a young woman, and the location of a teenage runaway. This book moves between Brodie’s detective work and retelling some of the stories of what happened all those years ago. Ps This detective series was made into a TV show. A few years ago. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Book Review: A Small Hotel. Author: ...
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Tonight's Reading: Review: Art of the Commonplace
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About books, mostly. Monday, September 16, 2013. Review: Art of the Commonplace. The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry. This is a collection of Berry’s essays and speeches. I had read Berry’s fiction, but this is the first extended reading I’ve done in his non-fiction. I was surprised that he came across as much more Christian in his non-fiction than in his fiction. Anyone interested in economics, ecology, sustainable living, agriculture, or Christianity. Author: Gary Chapman a...
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Tonight's Reading: Review: This is How
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About books, mostly. Monday, December 9, 2013. Review: This is How. This is How: Surviving What You Think You Can’t. The book is composed of short essays that each treat something that people have to face, get through, or otherwise survive. Snippets are pulled from Burroughs’ own experience, but I would call this more of a self-help book than a memoir. “Proven aid in overcoming shyness, molestation, fatness, spinsterhood, grief, disease, lushery, decrepitude, and more.”. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Tonight's Reading: Book Review: Orwell's Luck (YA)
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About books, mostly. Sunday, September 2, 2012. Book Review: Orwell's Luck (YA). The narrator (we never learn her name) finds a partially paralyzed rabbit on the morning paper on New Year’s morning, and determines to care for him until he is healed. This rabbit appears to have some special qualities, however. He may be communicating with her via the daily horoscopes. Pretty cute. Will the rabbit send a message? Will the rabbit survive? I’d estimate 5. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Author: Robert Ol...
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Tonight's Reading: April 2014
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About books, mostly. Monday, April 21, 2014. Review: The Signal and the Noise. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don’t. By Nate Silver. Silver. Is the prediction phenom who successfully called every state in the last presidential election. This book discusses the prediction of many types of events: sports, politics, weather, the stock market, earthquakes, and even terrorist attacks. You’d probably like this book. 3.5/5*. Monday, April 14, 2014. Review: Dear Mr. Knightley.
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Tonight's Reading: Review: The Best Travel Writing, vol. 9
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About books, mostly. Thursday, June 27, 2013. Review: The Best Travel Writing, vol. 9. The Best Travel Writing, vol. 9: True Stories from Around the World. Edited by James O’Reilly, Larry Habegger and Sean O’Reilly). A collection of short creative non-fiction about or inspired by travel. It was one of the travel books I got to judge this spring. Folks who like to read about travel. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Book Review: The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace.
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Tonight's Reading: Review: The Storytelling Animal
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About books, mostly. Friday, March 22, 2013. Review: The Storytelling Animal. The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human. Gottschall describes the importance of narrative to humans. Pretty engaging. Gottschall walks the talk—as he understands the importance of story, he makes sure his book has plenty of stories to keep the reader interested and to prove his points. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Librarian, Ph.D. in rhet/comp, and inveterate reader. Follow me on Twitter @graceveach. Book Revi...
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Tonight's Reading: Review Requests
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About books, mostly. If you'd like me to review a book, here are my guidelines:. Sending me a book doesn't guarantee a review. I'll be open to any genre; generally, I give a book 50 pages to grab my attention. In non-fiction, I love memoir and like history and travel, but again, would consider pretty much anything. Format: I prefer paper, but have a kindle and will accept kindle format. I'm not accepting self-published manuscripts at this time. Contact me at graceveach(at)yahoo(dot)com. Author: Linda Ols...