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Never Letting Go, by Mark Anthony, Oxford educated attorney and psychic medium, begins with the the words, “When you die, you really don’t.� The body may cease to function, but the soul is an immortal living spirit that continues to exist beyond physical life.”�� Starting with this information, and�continuing throughout his book, �Mark Anthony gives [...]
J. J. Keeler has written a wonderfully funny and woefully sad book. “I Hardly Ever Wash My Hands” is the story of her struggle from childhood with obsessive/compulsive disorder (OCD). She writes, “I know it could be worse; things can always be worse. I could be schizophrenic or delusional. I could have a disease where [...]
The creature at the centre of this remarkable book is an enigma. We never really know what he is thinking, and in fact he may not think at all, in the ratiocinatory sense. Susan Orlean presents to us a being who is driven by instinct, operating by a set of large, simple affects – love, honour, bravery [...]
For the millions of American’s who are born into poverty each year, our nation bleeds a darker red, white, and blue than the rest of us can fathom. The social constructs that push us from baby to student to graduate to career are disintegrated like sandcastles on a beach by the tide. Impoverished children don’t [...]
The other morning there was an article on the front page of the New York Times decrying the sad state of American education (this is news?). Among the quoted federal administrators, state administrators, county and district administrators (all obviously immediately available for this sort of thing), one superintendent rued the fact that he must fire [...]
I was first acquainted with the fiction juggernaut Christopher Leibig through his superb political roller-coaster ride “Saving Saddam”, which revolved around the high concept idea of a plot to indict one of Saddam Hussein’s body doubles in his place. Leibig’s new novel, “Montanamo”, takes that concept and multiplies it several times over. Each subplot is [...]
Like a knitting or mosaic master, K. Lynch weaves many different lives and times into a cohesive masterpiece of drama. While the trilogy does span from the time of the French Revolution to the present day, and in the beginning it seems to jump quickly in and out of lives and story lines, Lynch ties [...]
Reviewing books is often disappointing and so it’s always a pleasure to review one that is rewarding instead. Dayna Rubin’s book fools you a bit (no, not the old cliché that you can’t tell a book from its cover, although the cover photo stirred up some old memories of happy days in the woods) with [...]
Quick. Raise your hand if you knew that a dolphin was a whale. Not a lot of hands up, are there? Not even mine. I was pleasantly surprised at how much I learned while reading The Adventures of the Thundering Whales. I remember wishing I had a child to read the book to. Then I [...]
The Kingdom of the Sarianne teeters on the brink. While its tyrant king plays out his petty vendettas, rebellion foments on the edges of his domain. Politics and power struggles gamble civilization on the tides of war. Yet war is not the greatest threat to civilization. A far older enemy rises. The dragons are waking [...]