by ta | Nov 8, 2007 | Non-fiction
My kids find it hard to believe, but when I was a child I’d never heard of zucchini….our lives changed forever the day [my father] brought home zucchinis. ‘It’s Italian food,’ he explained. We weren’t sure how to pronounce it. And...
by Michelle | Sep 29, 2007 | Non-fiction
“In Shaggy Muses, we visit Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Flush, the golden Cocker Spaniel who danced the poet away from death, back to life and human love. We roam the wild Yorkshire moors with Emily Brontë, whose fierce Mastiff mix, Keeper, provided a safe and...
by Michelle | Sep 6, 2007 | Non-fiction
Raise your hand if you thought that The Animals were the only ones to record “House of the Rising Sun”? Even if you knew better, you just might be surprised to find out how rich the history of this song truly is. Anthony traces its origin as far back as he...
by ta | Aug 16, 2007 | Biography, Non-fiction
This is a very nice looking book with short essays by over sixty authors. They talk about where they write, how they get started and any talisman’s they like to have on hand when writing. My father was a supremely organized man. After he died, my three sisters...
by ta | Aug 2, 2007 | Non-fiction
I love to read book lists, best of lists or who’s reading what lists, so I was intrigued when I saw the following two books: The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them edited by Roxanne Coady and Joy...
by radguru | Jul 30, 2007 | Non-fiction
This author of Ten Hours Until Dawn has written another compelling account of a disaster at sea. Two small fishing boats set out to Georges Bank in November 1980 on what marine forecasts lead them to believe is typical fall weather for that day. Due to a...
