A Man of Means
 An early delight: Weighing in at around 90 pages, this may seem a rather minor bit of Wodehouseana. But it really is a rare find. These six stories form a serial which ran in the Pictorial Review in 1916. Even at this early date PGW had mastered the [... more]
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Heretics
Heretics: A fantastic book by a great writer, highly recommend it for anyone interested in Apologetics, or just fun argument should definitely read it. While this review will hardly do justice to him, Chesterton is amazingly complex, and while sometimes [... more]
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Helping Your Aging Parent
a worthy & useful companion: When William Grote approached me to review his new book I was elated, at last someone who has done what I, as I was writing STANDING THE WATCH: Memories of a home death, could not. Here he takes us through the maze of [... more]
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Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the Time of Christ
Just okay...: The content is decent, but the writing isn't easy to wade through...it's the kind of book you will read and reread to really feel like you "get" it. Not for serious scholars: I bought this book on impulse and was startled to [... more]
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The Crimson Fairy Book
One of the first of its kind: Andrew Lang was one of the first editors to collect multicultural fairy tales into one volume for readers. The Crimson Fairy Book offers tales from many lands. Included tales are How to find out a True Friend, The Language [... more]
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Interior Castle
The translator got in the way: I have wanted to read works of Teresa of Avila for many years. She is quoted by many of my favorite authors. However, after 100 pages, I can go no further in this book. The translator clearly views things differently than [... more]
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
Author: J. M. Barrie Binding: Paperback EAN: 9781600969843 ISBN: 1600969844 Number Of Pages: 68 Publication Date: 2007-02-28 Reading Level: All Ages Release Date: 2007-02-28 [... more]
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Memoirs of a Physician
Careful...: For some odd reason there is a general confusion in the publishing world between Dumas's "Joseph Balsamo" and "Memoirs of a Physican." "Balsamo" is the first in the series of Marie Antoinette novels, " [... more]
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My Antonia
Author: Willa Cather Binding: Paperback EAN: 9781600969669 ISBN: 1600969666 Number Of Pages: 290 Publication Date: 2007-02-28 Release Date: 2007-02-28 [... more]
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Anthem
Come on, it's Ayn Rand: The lack of individuality in the depicted society makes for a dull story told with a limited vocabulary, and Ayn Rand's ridiculous, individualistic, self-indulgent philosophy makes the ending of the book not even worth the short 66 [... more]
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Ethan Frome
Haunting: I first heard about Ethan Frome when reading the Divine Feud: a biography of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Apparently, Bette Davis spent a lifetime trying to get the story filmed. So I bought Ethan Frome and read it. It is a novella written by [... more]
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The Strenuous Life
Classic Roosevelt-- for good and bad: This little collection of Roosevelt's speeches and essays gives a wonderful taste for the jingo President's beliefs in a Strenuous Life of hard work, manly virtues and manifest destiny. As a historian, I'm fascinated [... more]
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