Merle’s Door: Lessons form a Freethinking Dog. Keraote, Ted. 636.70929
“You need a dog, and I’m it.” So begins the story of Merle, a stray dog, and Ted, a writer who likes animals. A man and his dog meet by chance and stay together by choice. Their home in a rural Wyoming village is surrounded by [...]
Archive for March, 2009
A New Review by VernettaS
Posted in Book Reviews on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A 7th New Review by DavidB
Posted in Book Reviews on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Memoirs of Pontius Pilate by James Mills
California Senator Mills has written a brilliant piece of fiction! This is no glib statement. His penchant for historical scrutiny, attention to detail & accuracy combined to make a seamless presentation, so lifelike as to defy the imagination. One truly feels they are reading this man’s [...]
A New Review by ElizabethS.
Posted in Book Reviews on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
The author’s purpose is driven home clearly in “The Notebook”. The couple portrayed live the true meaning of love. Love endures forever! A lesson to be learned today is the need to work on relationships.
The topic of the book deals with two people coming from two different worlds. Can the [...]
An 11th New Review by AllenP
Posted in Book Reviews on March 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“The Secret History of al Qaeda” by Abdel Bari Atwan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. 256 pages.
Atwan, a Palestinian Arab journalist living in London, is one of the few people to interview Osama bin Laden, which happened in 1996 in a cave in Afghanistan. Realizing the importance of the man and [...]
A 10th New Review by AllenP
Posted in Book Reviews on March 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Organize for Disaster” by Judith Kolberg Decatur, Georgia: Squall Press, 2004. 145 pages.
This is a must read for every family, because no matter where you live, you are in danger of at least several kinds of disasters. Wildfires and earthquakes can happen here on the Central Coast at any time. In order [...]
A 9th New Review by AllenP
Posted in Book Reviews on March 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Islam – Religion, History, and Civilization” by Seyyed Hossein Nasr. New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 2003. 198 pages.
Being from Iran, Nasr brings more of a Shi’a perspective than most other books on Islam that generally focus on Sunni Muslims. Also, even though he has been in the U.S. since at least 1984, teaching [...]
A 4th New Review by CarlH
Posted in Book Reviews on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Neal Stephenson’s “The Baroque Cycle” was three large hardback books
and got split up into eight paperback books so veterans of
Stephenson’s work may not be daunted by the nearly thousand pages of
his new book “Anathem“. However, people interested in a common
science-fiction plot turned slightly on its ear may find the book a
worthwhile investment in time. The [...]
An 8th New Review by AllenP
Posted in Book Reviews on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Countdown to Terror – the Top-Secret Information That Could Prevent the Next Terrorist Attack on America…and How the CIA Has Ignored it.” by Congressman Curt Weldon. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2005 231 pages.
Weldon has received information from an Iranian who claims to have well-placed sources, which are chronologically portrayed in the [...]
