October 2011 | Hanover Evening Sun

Bolivia, 5th: Tread Your Own Path (Footprint Bolivia Handbook) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)WHEN WE STARTED PLANNING OUR TRIP TO BOLIVIA I GOT A COPY OF THIS WONDERFUL BOOK WRITTEN BY DAISY AND ROBERT KUNSTAETTER AND ALL THE INFORMATION THAT WE NEEDED BEFORE , DURING AND AFTER THE TRIP WAS THERE....CLEAR AND TO THE POINT. THE FORMAT OF THE BOOK IS VERY PRACTICAL, THE PICTURES BEAUTIFUL AND...

The Cambridge Introduction to William Faulkner (Cambridge Introductions to Literature) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Attractively designed, this concise and well-written introduction to William Faulkner's life and works will be a welcome addition to library collections serving undergraduates writing papers on this noted Southern writer.Notes that while there is an enormous body of critical literature on Faulkner, much...

Reliving the Passion Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Wangerin's writing style is so refreshing - it brings the story of Christ to life in a new and exciting way. The emotive writing style draws you in as the reader and you cannot put the book away - I read and re-read the crucifixion chapters and came away almost breathless with a renewed sense of what...

The Norton Book of Modern War Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Why hasn't anyone reviewed this? It's been out for years and it's extraordinary.Anyone who knows editor Paul Fussell's take on war will understand immediately what he's doing here. Fussell was looking for writers, usually soldiers themselves, who concentrate on war's terrible effect on the individual....

A Season of Night: New Orleans Life after Katrina Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I thoroughly enjoyed "A Season of Night: New Orleans After Katrina". It is one of those rare books that compel the reader to finish it in one sitting. It's descriptions of the surreal, tragic, and sometimes humorous events make it hard to believe this is non-fiction.McNulty has a true gift. His recounting...

The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, Vol. 1: The Poems, 2nd Edition Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)There are two editions of Yeats' poetry with similar titles, this one (The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume 1: The Poems, edited by Richard Finneran, with 751 pages and published by Macmillan) and The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (also edited by Finneran, but published by Scribner with only 576...

Sun Tzu and the Art of Modern Warfare Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Most people who study military strategy rank Sun Tzu among the leading thinkers of all time. In this interesting book, Sun Tzu's ideas are usually compared to some of the grand strategic concepts of Clausewitz who influenced so many military thinkers in the 20th century, especially the Germans in World...

The World Before Her Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I started reading this book because of Venice and George Eliot. It seemed like a perfect escape, and it was. Venice, separated by a hundred years...and it was much more than that too. It is beautifully written and gorgeously observed. The novel is two linked stories, told in alternating chapters. The...

Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)In an immediate prose always in the present tense, Mariani distills forty years of research into a biography drawn from Hopkins' journals and correspondence. No critical detours, no theoretical jargon, only a sense of watching the poet labor and priest struggle. It's a scholarly work that reads like...

Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I learned about this book after hearing a recent interview with the author on NPR. I've read several books on the Iraqi conflict, most of them falling under the "what went wrong" category, and I'd have to say that this is probably the most heartfelt and emotionally wrenching one I've read. The author...

Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution, and Other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Everyone with a heart, brain, soul and/or conscience must read this book.This book tells the stories of many men who were convicted unjustly. While I expected to learn of the stories of the men who were proven "actually innocent" by DNA, I didn't expect to find that in doing so it exposed many other...

The God I Love: A Lifetime of Walking with Jesus Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)When Joni Eareckson Tada completes a book, I buy it immediately.Since her first book detailing her accident, I have purchased every one since and given many as gifts. I love them all but this one is the most revealing. The God I Love, is wonderful. I relate to Joni and her horse accomplishments and...

The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is a beautiful book with three beautiful short novels. I couldn't put it down. The author writes beautifully about a very important subject: man. The books are exceptionally preceptive. Though they take place in Africa, I know these people -- they live next door. I came away with a greater understanding...

Paradise Lost (Oxford World's Classics) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I have other editions of Paradise Lost, many with lengthy and preachy introductions, but this one has become my favourite. The design is beautiful, with a great cover, blood red inside covers and red ribbon marker. The original engravings that illustrate the story are a unique feature and look great....

Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Margarete Buber-Neumann (the daughter-in-law of Martin Buber) was a young German Communist in the 1920s who was active in her union of department-store clerks. When the Nazis came to power, she fled to Moscow -- where Stalin's regime condemned her as a spy and sent her to a gulag. When Hitler and Stalin...

The Collected Works (Everyman's Library) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Ever since Kahlil Gibran published his first English book The Madman in 1918, people have either admired or despised his work. One thing remains: folks keep reading it. With this latest anthology, Knopf has put together under one cover all their Gibran works, including the poet's illustrations. Trouble...

The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes Inside Biosphere 2 Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Many people in 1991 were fascinated by the idea of Biosphere 2, a closed, hermetically sealed, self-sustaining, man-made ecosystem with a desert, an ocean, a rainforest, a savannah, a marsh, a habitat and an intensive farm, all in three acres. On September 26 eight people entered the structure for a...