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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Alison Weir
Grove Press, 1991
Fill in the holes, if you have read other books about this period.
A must read if you have been enticed by the interesting tale of the period... Perhaps you have read some of the fluffier books with more romance and fictional license. This is book fills in many of the holes. This book is a nice enjoyable read with great details that ...
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Yesterday's Weather: Stories
Anne Enright
Grove Press, 2008
Winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize, Anne Enright's novel The Gathering went on to become a national best seller acclaimed for its electrifying prose and haunting emotional resonance. Now, in Yesterday's Weather , Enright presents a series of deeply moving glimpses into a rapidly changing Ireland: a land of family and tradition, but also, ...
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The English Major: A Novel
Jim Harrison
Grove Press, 2008
great read.
I have read most of Jim Harrisons book. This one I read in a weekend. Lots of fun.
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Sherman Alexie
Grove Press, 2005
That's How I Do Life Sometimes By Making The Ordinary Just Like Magic... -Sherman Alexie
Halfway through this book I emailed the friend that bought it for me to tell him how much I was loving it. I then asked him "How the hell am I supposed to review this?" His reply was to explain that "He needs a new star, a category for 'Holy Sh!t, that one hit me ...
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the ...
Grove Press, 2006
The Long Emergency
An excellent argument that we are at or approaching the peak oil production plateau, and speculates on the drastic future we may expect. Well done. Provokes a lot of thought about how one should adapt to eventually intolerable circumstances!
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The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
Grove Press, 2005
Understand the Psychology of Violent Revolt
This was required reading for a graduate course in the Humanities. Frantz Fanon (July 20, 1925 - December 6, 1961) was a Martinique-born French author and essayist. He was perhaps the preeminent thinker of the 20th century on the issue of decolonization and the ...
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The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
Ron Chernow
Grove Press, 2001
Learn the history of American finance as a whole by studying one titanic banking empire.
Chernow pioneered the popular study of corporate history with this sweeping history of the Morgan banking empire back in 1990. This is a superb bit of history writing on almost every level: it's intensively researched and documented; it's a great story with a real ...
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Tom Stoppard
Grove Press, 1994
Brilliant.
No mean to be offensive or anything, but I honestly feel that if people do not find R&G Are Dead hysterically funny and/or wonderfully ingenious, they have probably missed Stoppard's point in this play.
This play was during the age known as Theatre of the Absurd, ...
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Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
Samuel Beckett
Grove Press, 1994
Waiting and Waiting and Waiting and ...
Waiting and Waiting and Waiting and ...
Review of Play: Waiting for Godot - A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
Written in: 1949
Premiere in: 1953
By: Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989)
Originally written in French and translated to English by the author himself.
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Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
Michael Pollan
Grove Press, 2003
Lawn Mowing et al
Pollans description of what is a green thumb and the sysiphean art of mowing reminded me how therapeutic gardening can be and why it cures depression. Thank you Michael for making me look at my roses in a totally different way. You will love this book if you tend to ...
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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
William S. Burroughs
Grove Press, 2004
Beyond Good & Evil
Burroughs' work is a reaction to post -1945 cold war America in its radical deployment of tone, style and content. It endured bans, censorship and obscenity trials before hitting bookstores in the early nineteen sixties. But for all that, its continuing power is as ...
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Rock 'n' Roll: A New Play
Tom Stoppard
Grove Press, 2007
Rock 'N' Roll, Tom Stoppard
Rock 'n' Roll: A New Play
I am taking a class, studying playwrights Harold Pinter, August Wilson, and the genius of Tom Stoppard. Thanks to Amazon.com, the paperback edition of Tom Stoppard's Rock 'N' Roll arrived in excellent condition and in plenty of time for my ...
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Broken for You
Stephanie Kallos
Grove Press, 2004
One of the loveliest stories I have ever read.
This is one of my favorite books of all. This book goes beyond storytelling and speaks deeply to the reader. I still pull it off my shelf to reread my favorite passages. This book has a lot of wisdom in it.
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This Boy's Life: A Memoir
Tobias Wolff
Grove Press, 2000
Intriguing...
The memoir is intriguing. Any male who reads this can, at some point, relate to the follies, plunders, and disappointments Wolff encounters during his adolescence. It is explicit and candid making for an interesting read.
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Black Skin, White Masks
Frantz Fanon
Grove Press, 2008
Black Skin White Masks
Frantz Fanon was a black man born in the French colony and island of Martinique. He trained as a doctor specialising in psychiatry. He was deeply concerned about the impact of colonialism on the people of colour, particularly how it humiliated them, destroyed their ...
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