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BIRD: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF CHARLIE PARKER – Chuck Haddix
BIOGRAPHY WEEK REVIEWS Anyone who has even a passing interest in jazz music should know who Charlie “Bird” Parker is. And for those of us who are inspired by his music should be interested in a biography really letting us know he was. Sadly, this book doesn’t give us too much. In one paragraph: Charlie Continue reading
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JULIAN HAWTHORNE: THE LIFE OF A PRODIGAL SON – Gary Scharnhorst
BIOGRAPHY WEEK REVIEWS I will admit right off the bat that I was not familiar with Julian Hawthorne before reading this book. His famous father, Nathaniel Hawthorne, of course is required reading somewhere along the way for any English major. So why read this biography of a famous author’s son? It turns out that Julian Continue reading
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DRAGONWRITER: A TRIBUTE TO ANNE MCCAFFREY AND PERN – Todd McCaffrey, editor
BIOGRAPHY WEEK REVIEWS It is very possible that I am the only person who will read this book who has never read a single “Pern” book in the Anne McCaffreey canon. I am, of course, familiar with the books…in large part due to the awesome covers by Michael Whelan, whose art I relished at a Continue reading
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THE BEATLES ARE HERE! – Penelope Rowlands, editor
For how much longer can we get mileage out of The Beatles? For quite awhile is my guess, based on the number of books that continue to be released about the remarkable, iconic group. And as long as the books are well-written, strongly-themed and have something unique to say, then those books will continue to Continue reading
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LOST AND – Jeff Griffin
Quite recently I reviewed a book of poetry that I didn’t much enjoy. I’d prefer not to mention it by name as it doesn’t need any sort of promotion (even bad publicity). But what that book thought it was (according to the author), this book is. And that is: Poetry of a most unusual sort, Continue reading
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ALL THE SONGS: THE STORY BEHIND EVERY BEATLES RELEASE – Philippe Margotin & Jean-Michel Guesdon
Fabulous. While it seems that most of this information has been available through other sources, this compendium packs it all together and ties it up with the perfect packaging. I absolutely loved getting the little tidbits of information in quick, rapid form. This is not necessarily a book to sit and read cover to cover Continue reading
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MARCH – graphic novel by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
I consider myself to be a moderately well-educated man and I am certainly familiar with the Civil Rights Movement and Martin Luther King, Jr., and when I first received this review copy of March, a graphic novel about the Civil Rights Movement, I was a little less than enthusiastic about reading it. I now wish Continue reading
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ME AND MURDER, SHE WROTE – Peter S. Fischer
I enjoy reading ‘behind-the-scenes’ books from the entertainment world. I suspect this comes from my own professional work backstage. This particular book caught my eye because 1) Murder, She Wrote was one of my wife’s favorite television shows (along with Columbo), and 2) I lived and worked in LA at the same as most of Continue reading
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ETCHED IN CLAY — Andrea Cheng
Yes! I will admit to a small bias against poetry. Despite studying it, writing it, promoting it, I’ve always had a hard time getting excited about reading poetry. So when I flipped this open and saw it was in verse, there was a momentary pause, I put it down and came back to it later. Continue reading
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BULLYING UNDER ATTACK — John Meyer, editor
This is a book that every high school sociology or health class should have as required reading. Written by teens, this anthology explores the lives of those who are bullied; those who have sat passively by while others are bullied; those who’ve intervened to defend/stop bullying; and the lives of bullies themselves. While I’m a Continue reading
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WRITERS BETWEEN THE COVERS — Shannon McKenna Schmidt and Joni Rendon
For about as long as I can remember, my heroes have always been writers, and any kind of a look at a writer’s personal life has been a voyeuristic pleasure of mine. This book does everything just about perfectly…it touches on a number of different writers and offers a nicely capsulated look at some of Continue reading
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LEAVING ROLLINGSTONE: A MEMOIR – Kevin Fenton
I’ve looked at the genre of memoir for awhile, read more than a few, and wondered why it is that anyone would read a memoir by someone they didn’t know or by someone not ‘famous.’ After reading Leaving Rollingstone, I think I found my answer…to learn a little more about one’s self. And when you Continue reading
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