February 2012 | Hanover Evening Sun

The Dogs of Windcutter Down: One Shepherd's Struggle for Survival Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The second of David Kennard's wonderful stories of life on an English sheep farm is every bit as good as the first, and I highly recommend both books! Kennard writes with a quiet passion for his calling as a shepherd, and is both educational and entertaining. He's a gift for using words to create such...

Pierre Monteux, Maitre Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)A wonderful read, very rich in detail. Informative, delightful, humorous, sad, even inspiring.Canarina is a very fine writer--no surprise to those of us who swore by his record reviews in the 1980's. Monteux's busy life could easily have degenerated into a series of dates and program listings, but the...

All the King's Men Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Born in Kentucky, Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) had a long and prestigious literary career, his huge body of work including poetry, essays, textbooks, history and novels. "All the King's Men", written in 1946, won a Pulitzer Prize and I can well understand why. First of all there are the words, lots...

Ray Bradbury: A Critical Companion (Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The book is an analysis of a bunch of his books and stories. They were picked by teachers and librarians. I haven't finished it yet, but the analyses are very interesting. And a good biography to start out with. If you like Ray Bradbury or his books, or both, this is a good book to get.Click Here to...

City Boy Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)After Sam's mother dies of AIDS, he has to leave the only life he has known in urban Malawi and return with his aunt to the rural village where his mother grew up. This was a really interesting, thought-provoking story about the struggles and changes Sam goes through as he tries to deal with his grief...

A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I love Dean Koontz's fiction, and I found this heartwarming nonfiction tribute to his late golden retriever, Trixie, just as absorbing as any of his novels. It portrays Trixie's life with the Koontzes, and her death, but mostly her life and the amazing impact she had on the lives of Dean and his wife,...

BACKCOUNTRY: CONTEMPORARY WRITING IN WEST VIRGINIA Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is a book well-worth the time it takes to read it, which is something that cannot be said of many books on the market today. Full of vibrantly-penned short stories and poems -- the kind that Jesse Stuart wrote and that become classics -- each holds the reader's interest from start to finish by grabbing...

Ministers Prayer Book Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)As a clergyperson, I whole-heartedly recommend this prayer book to all pastors. Over the years, this prayer book alone has remained consistently by my side. In addition to the daily lectionary and collect, it offers a comprehensive morning, afternoon and evening prayer format: filled with prayers, creeds,...

Say You're One of Them Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Say You're One of Them is a book of five short stories written by Uwem Akpan. All of the stories are set in Africa and are told from a child's perspective. They deal with such topics as slavery, religious conflict, genocide and poverty. These are stories of love and sacrifice. They are stories of compassion...

Love and Devotion Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Erica James is a well-known and award-winning British author who will appeal to many US readers. Reading this book is like curling up with a cup of tea and having a wise and thoughtful friend recount a good story. The subject matter is sad - a young woman and her husband are killed in a car wreck, leaving...

Reflections of Prague: Journeys through the 20th century Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"Never fall down!"Roughly translated from the Czech refrain that author Ivan Margolius' resilient mother, Heda Margolius Kovaly, would often exclaim when life in the former Czechoslovakia threw their Margolius clan one too many rotten tomatoes.Ivan and Heda, of course, are son and wife to the late Rudolf...

Graphite Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I love this book. It is an account of experiences in Russian concentration camps told as a series of short stories written like mental journal entries. This first hand account of a historical context rarely-discussed is told in poignant and distilled mini-stories. The style is sparse and the content...

Back to a Shadow in the Night: Music Writings and Interviews: 1968-2001 Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Back To A Shadow In The Night: Music Writings And Interviews 1968-2001 by music critic Jonathan Cott (who is a contributing editor to "Rolling Stone" magazine), is a selection of compiled interviews, articles, and reflections on and about famous personages of popular music, ranging from the late 1960's...

The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Simply put, "The Bucolic Plague" by Josh Kilmer-Purcell was a fun and engrossing read. When you read a book you really enjoy, it's often difficult to describe to others exactly why you thought the book was so great. For me, "The Bucolic Plague" is one of those books, but I will attempt to explain why...

First Gray, Then White, Then Blue Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is a crime story, but it's not a murder mystery. The crimes do include the murder of an enigmatic woman, but the other crimes are betrayal of friends, possessiveness, stealing the physical presence and love of a husband and father, and many more. The story is told from the multiple and constantly...

We Followed Odysseus Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)We Followed Odysseus is the engaging story of sailing a small boat along the sea path of Odysseus' famous voyage. Crossing oceans and seas Hal Roth, with the help of his wife Margaret, re-traced the voyages of Odysseus along the Turkish coast and the isles of Greece. Roth sailed to a desert island in...

As It Is On Mars, Revised Second Edition Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Currently, I'm about 2/3 through this book, so I'm not saying anything about the ending! The characters spend the whole book speaking in pages of expository technical details on how to survive on Mars in a forced and stilted fashion. Their dialogs are about as far from "realistic" as you can get, so...