Category Archives: Book Review Monday

Arm Smash Piano Man

January 16, 2012 by Dana

Why, why, why didn’t my mother make me take piano lessons when I was a kid???? Maybe it’s time to go back to my Alfred books.

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Eighty-three rules for eating well? Eighty-THREE?

January 9, 2012 by Dana

I remember when I got to the end of Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma thinking, “Well, what the hell CAN I eat, then?” Although the mental image of that potato farmer covered in fertilizer did stick, to the point that … Continue reading →

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Jesuits in Love (and Murder)

January 2, 2012 by Dana

Good characterization and good period detail make Judith Rock’s The Rhetoric of Death an engaging read. It’s France, 1686, in the middle of Louis XIV’s secretly continued persecution of the Protestant Huguenots. Jesuit father-in-training Charles du Lac connives at the … Continue reading →

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