by Site Owner | Jun 25, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Poetry
By Albert Goldbarth Graywolf Press, $18.00, 187 pages Everyday People is a collection of poems musing about people and places. Albert Goldbarth is a distinguished poet from Chicago, having won the National Book Critics Circle award in both 1991 and 2001, he is the...
by Site Owner | May 31, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Music
By Mike Doughty Da Capo Press, $16.00, 252 pages Mike Doughty’s adventurous memoir in The Book of Drugs covers all the topics expected: sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. The book spans from Doughty’s days of devotion to his band to the hard partying that comes with a rock...
by Site Owner | Apr 17, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics
By Barry A. Vann Prometheus Books, $26.00, 228 pages This novel describes how the spread of Islam will end Western civilization, as we know it. In this short, straight to the point novel about Islam, it is clear the author does not have faith in religions he does not...
by Site Owner | Apr 13, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Religion
By Christina Schofield Chosen, $12.99, 154 pages Christina Schofield writes a journey of faith and her struggle with God in her new book, My Life and Lesser Catastrophes. From the day her husband becomes paralyzed by a motorcycle accident, Christina tells the story of...
by Site Owner | Apr 3, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
By Simon Sebag Montefiore Knopf, $35.00, 650 pages Simon Sebag Montefiore covers Jerusalem, a city of tremendous history and controversy, on almost every subject matter in Jerusalem. The nonfiction runs in chronological order of three thousand years of war, religion,...