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BOOK OF LIVES: A MEMOIR OF SORTS – Margaret Atwood
What a joy to read Margaret Atwood. “A Memoir of Sorts” is a great subtitle for this book. Part autobiography, part memoir, part journal, part reflection on friends and loves, part essays on a wide variety of topics this book is hard to classify but what comes through is Atwood’s easy, conversational style of writing. Continue reading
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THE MAN THAT GOT AWAY – Walter Rimler
Harold Arlen is not a household name – not in the average home, anyway. Yet Harold Arlen was the composer to some songs that are still well known nearly 90 years after they were first written. Not sure who he is yet? Have you ever heard or sung the song “Stormy Weather”? Maybe, maybe not? Continue reading
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COMPLETELY KAFKA – Nicholas Mahler
A biography of Franz Kafka told in minimalist, illustrative form. I was really thrilled to get this book. I’m a tremendous fan of the work of Franz Kafka and, many decades ago, I had read through his collected letters and diaries. Getting a new work out there, to reach a new audience – especially those Continue reading
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DANCING ON THE EDGE – Russ Tamblyn
Russ Tamblyn. My guess is that anyone who knows the name likely knows him because of either his phenomenal performance in the original West Side Story movie or, for slightly younger audiences, his work as the off-kilter doctor on the TV series Twin Peaks. I fall primarily into the first group, having grown up admiring his work as Continue reading
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THE ARTIST’S JOURNEY – Travis Elborough
Art is so often a product of the artist’s surroundings. Throughout history, still lifes and the natural world are probably the most common subjects for artists. Where an artist lives and to where an artists travels is likely to be represented in the art. Author Travis Elborough picks up on this and provides a brief Continue reading
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THE MANUSCRIPTS CLUB – Christopher de Hamel
There was a time when I considered myself more than just an avid reader, but a collector of books. Had I the resources, I have no doubt that I would have collected manuscripts if I’d had the resources (ie money) and so this title really grabbed my attention. I have to admit, though, that I Continue reading
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LEWIS CARROLL: THE MAN AND HIS CIRCLE – Edward Wakeling
There are only a small handful of authors who were active prior to the 20th century for whom I not only have great respect but I wish to learn as much about them as possible. Lewis Carroll, aka Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, would be high on that list. When I saw this ‘new’ book by Edward Continue reading
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RATED X: HOW PORN LIBERATED ME FROM HOLLYWOOD – Maitland Ward
There have been a few books and ‘tell-alls’ from people (specifically women) in the porn industry, but few, if any, come from someone who worked as a high-profile Hollywood actor prior to making the conscious decision to start working in porn. Maitland Ward was a teenager when she worked on the soap opera The Bold and Continue reading
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BEATLES WIVES – Marc Shapiro
Let’s see… The Beatles reached their peak as a working band almost 55 years ago and still we can’t seem to get enough of them. I wonder how many new Beatles-related books are still published each year. They broke up as a band well over 50 years ago, never had a reunion tour, two of Continue reading
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A PRIVATE WILDERNESS: THE JOURNALS OF SIGURD F. OLSON – David Backes, editor
Nature writer, environmentalist, essayist, educator, conservationist, and former president of the National Parks Association, Sigurd F. Olson had a long career working in wilderness areas. For some, such as myself, he is best remembered for his gentle, thoughtful reflections of nature found in books like Listening Point, The Singing Wilderness, or Runes of the North (among others). Editor David Continue reading
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OTTO BINDER – Bill Schelly
Otto Binder was science fiction, science, U.F.O., and comic book author who wrote in the early days (Golden Era) of comic books (specifically the 1940’s) and the New Wave of science fiction (the 1960’s-1970’s). He is credited with truly defining Captain Marvel (Shazam) and wrote nearly 1,000 (of the 1,700) stories in the Marvel Family Continue reading
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EUGENE O’NEILL – Robert M. Dowling
I have an undergraduate degree in theatre and am familiar with the works of Eugene O’Neill, having read or seen (or both) most of his body of works. I was only passingly familiar with O’Neill the man, the writer, from brief bios in college text books. Author Robert M. Dowling has done an exhaustive amount Continue reading
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