‘Book Review’ Category
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A Different Cake Every Week? Now There’s a Worthwhile New Year’s Resolution.
0December 31, 2012 by Reader's Connection
If you happen to work in a place where the break room usually holds some tempting homemade treats, then here is a challenge for you. The staff of National Public…
Category Book Review | Tags: All Cakes Considered, Melissa Gray
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In Sunlight and in Shadow
0December 28, 2012 by Reader's Connection
1946. Harry Copeland and Catherine Hale fall deeply in love. She’s an heiress and would-be actress and singer, and he’s a paratrooper back from World War II, trying to run…
Category Book Review | Tags: 12 Weeks of Christmas~Hanukkah~Kwanzaa~Solstice~New Years, In Sunlight and in Shadow, Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
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An Interesting Reason to Go to College, and a Piece about a Pharmacist in Colorado, and One about Teaching, and . . .
0December 18, 2012 by Reader's Connection
I didn’t plan to include any Best of books on this year’s gift suggestion list. No one needs to be told that these are excellent stocking-stuffers. But I was standing…
Category Book Review | Tags: 12 Weeks of Christmas~Hanukkah~Kwanzaa~Solstice~New Years, Dr. Don, Garret Keizer, Getting Schooled, Mark Edmundson, Peter Hessler, The Best American Essays, Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?
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This Blessed Plot
0December 14, 2012 by Reader's Connection
The 2012 gift suggestion list had only one history title on it so far, about the battle of Tippecanoe. I’m grateful to Deanna Long of the East Washington branch for…
Category Book Review, Gift Suggestions, Newsletter | Tags: 12 Weeks of Christmas~Hanukkah~Kwanzaa~Solstice~New Years, Foundation: The History of England From Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors, Peter Ackroyd
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Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance
0December 11, 2012 by Reader's Connection
My thanks to Irvington’s Steve Bridge for sending me this review of a new book in a science fiction series: Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold is another fun…
Category Book Review, Booklist | Tags: A Civil Campaign, Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance, Cordelia's Honor, Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory, Vorkosigan, Young MIles