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Book Review: Friday's Child by Georgette Heyer (Blogcritics.org)
Austen-sibly Georgette Heyer is a hidden gem. I found no proof in this dull, unfaceted Regency romance. Georgette Heyer was a midcentury novelist, English by birth, fiercely private by nature. She married, moved abroad with her husband to exotic locales like Tanganyika and Macedonia, and seems to have never spent long without moving her pen over paper. Her works of fiction are now gaining in ...
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Review: American current affairs roundup (Guardian Unlimited)
Review: American current affairs roundupBush-bashing is big business, in London and Washington as well as Cairo and Karachi, where bookshelves groan under the weight of titles like Why Do We Hate America? says James Robinson
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'Six Feet Under' creator behind HBO's 'True Blood' (Chicago Sun-Times)
'True Blood," the new show by "Six Feet Under" creator Alan Ball (premiering at 8 tonight on HBO) is a bloody good horror-filled mystery romance.
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Enter the Exciting and Fiercely Competitive World of Soccer -- New Book Takes You Deep Into the World of Major League ... (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
STILLWATER, Okla., Sept. 5, 2008 -- You watch from the sidelines, your eyes glued on the field. You breathlessly wait as the ball flies and the goalie jumps to block it. The ball slips past his hands and hits the net.
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Review: 'Marrying Anita' by Anita Jain (Newsday)
MARRYING ANITA: A Quest for Love in the New India, by Anita Jain. Bloomsbury, 307 pp., $24.99.
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After 7 years, a mother is finally found (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
When her mother left home seven years ago, 15-year-old Alexandra Firestone thought she was just taking another trip with a boyfriend, and that she'd come home soon. ...
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Styron?s Choice (New York Times)
When William Styron published ?The Confessions of Nat Turner? 40 years ago, black writers objected to his use of dialect and his invocation of inflammatory stereotypes.
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"Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All": an American's take on contact with the Maori (Seattle Times)
Christina Thompson's memoir "Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All" tells the story of the author's unlikely romance with a New Zealand Maori foundryman, interwoven with a critical look back at European first contacts with the Maori.
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Family Matters (Coeur d'Alene Press)
It was wholly appropriate that Mark II and I drove directly into the teeth of Hurricane Fay in order to take him to college a couple of weeks ago. He and I have had a number of adventures together, and in the course of those adventures have become much closer than most father/son relationships.
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Art Galleries (Palo Alto Weekly)
"Just Suppose" New photographic works by Maggie Taylor and Jerry Uelsmann. On display are Taylor's images illustrating Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." Also, Uelsmann's black-and-white photo montages exploring the theme of meditative space.
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