Tag Archives: books

November 10 is "Buy Joanne Day" - can harnessed blogs make a difference for a worthy author?

Re: Retirement Party at Libby's House - Bring your notes for a planned bonfire

The world that Ms. Kirstein has created, and the people she has populated it with are ones we can readily identify with.

We have a plant growing in our kitchen. Not a houseplant in a pot (we’ve never had much luck with those). It’s a weed, growing up through a gap between the linoleum tile and the painted wooden molding. We’re pretty messy people, and our somewhat decrepit kitchen never really gets …

This book tells the story of a building company operating on what you might call the anti-Wal-Mart model.

...the impact of technology on a world when its secrets are held in the hands of only a few

Using The Da Vinci Code as a framework for the general public to explore the historical roots of Christianity.

...the writer is able to be a writer who does a little promotion. Not a publicity person who does a little writing.

The outcome of Shakespeare's battle of the sexes is not so much reversed as made a fairer fight.

My prescription for the false perception of novelty is the book Occidentalism: A Short History of Anti-Westernism.