Tag: people
group name: readanything
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August 16, 2006 06:37 AM EDT --
I beleive that I was a person born to make a difference in this world...maybe not an earth-shattering, life-changing-experience difference, but a whispering difference. You know, the differences you may . . . more
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October 25, 2006 05:09 PM EDT --
"People of the Wolf" is the first in a series by the husband and wife team, W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear. This inventive and evocative tale is set in prehistoric North America, . . . more
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July 24, 2006 10:53 PM EDT --
This evening, I received a lovely thank-you message from Vina Byrne, a librarian at William B. Ogden Free Library in Walton, NY. Vina has created many illustrative scrapbooks on events and programs . . . more
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March 30, 2007 06:43 PM EDT --
Non-fiction/Autobiography . . . more
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September 05, 2006 08:29 AM EDT --
Many times, before we can make a change in the world, we have to make changes within ourselves, especially changes in our attitudes. The following atricle says it better than I ever could so read . . . more
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February 11, 2007 12:41 AM EST --
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere was the first book by Morris that I have had the opportunity to read, and even though it was so very melancholy I look forward to reading the rest of her works. . . . more
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September 19, 2006 12:00 PM EDT --
So, I've been hunting around for some time trying to find the source of this mysterious Byzantine Ambassador to the Empire of the Turks, one Zemarchos, that Grousset mentioned in his "Empire . . . more
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October 11, 2006 05:29 PM EDT --
Air Force General Richard Myers figures prominently in Bob Woodward's new book, State of Denial. It's also clear that he is one of Woodward's chief sources for the tome. State of Denial, if . . . more
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August 24, 2006 03:01 PM EDT --
John Steinbeck's "East of Eden" is a fascinating book that traces out story of two generations of two families whose lives are somehow interlinked. We can say that its by chance rather than . . . more
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September 23, 2006 12:46 AM EDT --
A few years ago while searching for original sources of men who had made the entire journey across Eurasia I bought Cathay and the Way Thither by Sir Henry Yule. This is a wonderful collection of a few . . . more
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January 07, 2007 08:01 PM EST --
Our house is filled with books. There isn't a room that doesn't contain an overflowing bookshelf or several boxfuls or stacks of books, and in the crawlspaces there are still more boxes that . . . more
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October 05, 2006 05:31 PM EDT --
part of my continuing review of Bob Woodward's new book, "State of Denial."
Regarding the July 10, 2001 meeting between Rice, Black and Tenet, there is one little nugget about that from . . . more
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February 19, 2007 06:30 PM EST --
So Long A Letter is a series of short letters written by Ramatoulaye, a woman in West Africa, to a childhood friend. The letters are a series of memories and reminiscences that cover the choices . . . more
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August 26, 2006 10:59 PM EDT --
I am just starting the book , but what I have read so far is very good.
I've known people who live like this and the struggle the children go through. What durgs can do to a person and . . . more
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September 13, 2006 01:35 PM EDT --
Last week Afshin Molavi and I discussed Iran, Mossadegh, travel karma and hospitality as they all relate to my trip to Iran and his experiences in Iran.
We also discuss the amount of women in the Iranian . . . more
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September 19, 2006 06:33 PM EDT --
Herodotus, to many historians, is anathema. His book is too anecdotal, too colorful, too discursive and some of it is sheer fantasy, nothing like the grim reality Thucydides depicts (and neocons worship) . . . more
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March 01, 2007 04:17 PM EST --
First of all, Karin Slaughter is one of those authors who write like you are living the story – none of that drawn out, extra, just-for-the-heck-of-it . . . more
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July 04, 2007 07:23 PM EDT --
Author: Howard Buten
This is an amazing book! It is written from the perspective of a child aged 8. He wavers between being highly imaginative and being very concrete in his . . . more
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October 16, 2006 02:00 PM EDT --
There is an organization called The Friends of Freddy devoted to the preservation and worship of Walter R. Brooks' beloved pig and his friends on the Bean farm and in the surrounding area. Freddy . . . more
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October 02, 2006 12:22 AM EDT --
From Bob Woodward's new book:
The biggest question mark was Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld:
By Bob Woodward
After President Bush won reelection in 2004, White House Chief of Staff Andrew . . . more
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