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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (P.S.)
Francine Prose
Harper Perennial, 2007
Read Well to Write Well
+ a very helpful guide to reading wisely
+ A different slant on reading books from a gifted writer
Author Francine Prose's latest non-fiction book Reading Like a Writer, a Guide for People who Love Books and for Those who Want to Write Them, brings to the study to literature exactly what the study of literature needs: literature. She reads a text for what it offers as a unique assemblage of ...
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Iphigenia in Aulis (Performance Series)
Euripides
Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 1997
Euripides has Agamemnon and Achille fighting pre-Iliad
+ An accurate and wonderfully performable translation!
+ A great translation of a timeless classic
"Iphigenia in Aulis" was the last play written by Euripides and represents his most cynical depiction of the great heroes of Greek mythology. The subject of the play is the sacrifice of Iphigenia, ordered by her father King Agamemnon, to appease the goddess Artemis, so that the Achaen fleet can ...
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Aeschylus I: Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (The Complete Greek Tragedies)
Aeschylus
University Of Chicago Press, 1969
An excellent trilogy
+ Vengeance Is Mine
+ aeschylus I
Aeschylus (525-456 BC) is the father of Greek tragedies (one legend reports that Dionysus himself commanded Aeschylus to write them). Of the seventy tragedies that he wrote, only seven have survived to the present day. These three plays form the most complete tetralogy that we have (a tetralogy ...
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Echoes
Maeve Binchy
Dell, 1989
One of Maeve's best!
+ My favorite Maeve Binchy book
+ Another Good Story
+ Excellent read about different types of people, but somewhat sad ending.
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Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses
Isabel Allende
Harper Perennial, 1999
This memoir hits the spot !
+ Luscious, scrumptious and, oh yeah, comforting...
+ Life, Love, and Food
+ One of my Absolute Favorite Books
+ Food for thought and laugh
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The Celestine Prophecy
James Redfield
Warner Books, Inc., 1997
Searching for what life is all about? Confused? This may help put things in prepective.
+ Exceptional ideas on the energy of interpersonal relations
+ Be inspired
+ unforgettable
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How to be good.
Nick Hornby
Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Th. Knaur Nachf., GmbH & Co., 2003
Makes me want to be good... or at least better
Nick Hornby is quickly becoming my favorite author. I loved "A Long Way Down" and "About a Boy." I don't know which is my favorite, but "How to Be Good" is every bit as good as the others.
It's painful in its accuracy of the internal conflict every person faces when debating living comfortably ...
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Get Shorty
Elmore Leonard
Amazon Remainders Account, 2005
good book
+ Taking Lives And Meetings In La-La Land
An excellent read. If you enjoy the movie, then pick up the book.
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Annie John: A Novel
Jamaica Kincaid
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997
A real study of life on a Caribbean Island -- A different review
+ ANOTHER COMING OF AGE STORY
+ Lovely writing but not Kincaid's best
+ A Fine Line Between Love and Hate
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Culinaria Greece (Culinaria)
Ullmann Publishing, 2008
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Better Than Beauty: A Guide to Charm
Helen Valentine, Alice Thompson
Barnes & Noble Books, 2003
Timeless
My Mom loaned this book from our local library and made me read it when she was finished. Then I finished it, cover to cover, in only 2 days. I loved it so much that I rushed to Amazon to find a copy to keep for myself. This book was written in the 1930's and contains language and customs from that ...
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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity [10th Anniversary Edition]
Julia Cameron
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2002
A must read for anyone interested in being more creative, just being creative or living life to the fullest
+ The Artist's Way
+ This book is the best friend you can ever have
+ brilliant! a great guide book
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Vinegar Hill (P.S.)
A. Manette Ansay
Harper Perennial, 2006
Haunting Read...
+ Sad, very sad
This book has many horrific stories buried within the context of the main plot. The way history repeats itself is carried throughout the characters and it's only in the end we see the beginning of the cycle breaking itself. Abuse, religion and repression are recurring themes that give us a tale of ...
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Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Stephen J. Dubner
William Morrow, 2006
Great and funny book
+ Freakonomics
I read this book and then passed it along to someone else - it is a great book and very funny - most people I have spoken to - don't finish - don't go in with the right attitude - but it is a way to compare how society looks at certain things for what is right and wrong - good or bad - when you ...
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The Cook's Encyclopedia of Bread (Cook's Encyclopedia)
Christine Ingram, Jennie Shapter
Lorenz Books, 2000
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