Books

Book Review: Heidi

April 16, 2007

The best children’s books are those that can be enjoyed by people of all ages. Heidi, by Johanna Spyri, is that type of book. I have vivid memories from my childhood of listening to Heidi as a book on tape. More recently, in the past month I read the book to my grandfather as his [...]

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The Book is Here

February 24, 2007

Some of my readers have already read The Stuttering Bard of York, but to those who have not, and to the world in general, I introduce Ben and his companions for your enjoyment. If I were a slick advertiser I would try to convince you all that The Stuttering Bard of York is exactly the [...]

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Going It Alone, My Way

January 28, 2007

At least some of my readers are aware that I have been working on novel length fiction. I have been working for years, actually. And I say “novel length fiction” rather than a novel, because it has been the plural over the years. There have been times when I felt as if nothing would ever [...]

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Zipping Away

May 6, 2006

Haven Kimmel is a gifted writer. I was introduced to her writing several years ago with the childhood memoir, A Girl Named Zippy. That first rousing (and hilarious) success has been followed by the sequel She Got up Off the Couch. The sequel follows the adventures of Kimmel’s mother, and her entire family, as much [...]

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The MLAC says . . .

March 28, 2006

Today I wandered over to Project Gutenberg and happened to see under Latest News: March 4, 2006: Which book should every adult read before they die? That is the question the British Museum, Libraries and Archives Council (MLAC) asked librarians. According to The Guardian, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee received the most [...]

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Book Review: Thura’s Diary

April 22, 2004

The book was slim and small. Thura’s Diary: My life in wartime Iraq was the title. With the picture of an Iraqi girl in her late teens or early twenties on the cover my first thought was that this was some publisher trying to do something like a modern Ann Frank rip-off and make some [...]

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Book Review: Stolen Lives

April 22, 2004

I first picked up Stolen Lives on impulse. I was at the library counter, checking out books when I saw it sitting displayed on the shelf. Certainly the title was eye catching Stolen Lives: twenty years in a desert jail. Intrigued, I flipped open the cover and read the inside flap. A entire family imprisoned [...]

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Book Review: Web Design on a Shoestring

March 22, 2004

Last night I finished reading Web Design on a Shoestring. The book is a broad overview, or perhaps it might be called an introduction to, web design for designers with a limited budget. Carrie Bickner covers the process from writing a project outline to advice on better and cheaper page coding and even site hosting [...]

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