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A Journey to Ireland's Literary Revival
suite1010.com reviews
R. Todd Felton’s A Journey into Ireland’s Literary Revival is a fascinating and well-written account of the rebirth in Irish literary between the 1890s and the...
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A Journey to Ireland's Literary Revival
Gadling.com reviews
I've already mentioned how much I love the Roaring Forties ArtPlace series, but I won't apologize for saying it again. The latest creative guide in this fantastic...
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A Journey to Ireland's Literary Revival
Celtic Connection reviews
Once in a great while events, trends and people propel periods of remarkable enlightenment, firming up hope in our better natures. The Irish Literary Revival, one...
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Legend of the Nile by Paul Klee
www.corpse.org reviews
"This is one of our poets and we stand behind him (or to his side) in any fight, physical or literary, he might be involved in. Except maybe the situation he...
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good dog
JustOneMoreBook.com reviews
Full page, personality-packed portraits, deceptively adorable sketched studies and frank, enthusiastic poems reveal the charm and distinct characters of sixteen...
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good dog
iVillage.com reviews
Amazingly, the free-verse poetry here gives a very real, yet subtle and sensitive, introduction to each of 16 breeds of dogs, from the Westie to the mutt. In...
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Meridian Magazine reviews
Do you like dogs? Do you know much about these canine animals? Good Dog, by Maya Gottfried, will not only enlighten you to the behavior of 16 very different...
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The Jewish Daily Forward reviews
Maya Gottfried, one essayist who wasn’t uncomfortable choosing, writes, “I very badly wanted to have a religious identity.” Attempting an investigation of her...
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good dog
PoetryforChildren.blogspot.com reviews
I am showcasing doggie poetry today. Here’s one poem that reflects my own tendency to provide voiceovers for my dog’s behavior and actions:
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CurledUpKids.com reviews
Author Maya Gottfried introduces children to various breeds of dogs with delightful poems and adorable watercolor and black-and-white line paintings by Robert...
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The Loneliness of Dogs
Fiddler Crab Review reviews
Overall, Mayo’s judgments are consistently good in a free verse finding shape in sound, rhetoric and proposition. Most admirable is his vital balance between the...
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The Calligrapher’s Daughter
Booklist reviews
Kim opens a window into a vanished world in this sensitively rendered homage to her mother's life. As Najin comes of age in early-twentieth century Korea, her...
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The Boston Globe reviews
For all the years that Randy Susan Meyers counseled male batterers, there was one question that stuck with her. “What about the children?’’ she wondered. “They...
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Saving CeeCee Honeycutt - hardcover
Library Journal reviews
*Hoffman, Beth. Saving CeeCee Honeycutt. Pamela Dorman Bks: Viking. Jan. 2010. c.320p. ISBN 978-0-670-02139-0. $25.95. F VERDICT: "Exemplifying Southern...
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Author Toolbox reviews
It takes a damn good book to hook me from the start, but Switch gripped me and didn’t let me go. What an adrenaline rush! I read it while walking from room to room...
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La Libre, Belgium reviews
"With sensitivity, Michelle Richmond examines the fragility of our own stories and the role of memory."
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My Ongoing Struggle with Misanthropy reviews
The book was Dedra Johnson’s Sandrine’s Letter to Tomorrow. It is not a book that I would normally pick up. I usually go for the over-testosterone stories of...
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Dan's Journal reviews
"[This is] an exceptional novel. The main character, Edward and I have so much in common (born around the same time, had a step-mother, was taunted in school, and...
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Ice Song
Mentajack.com reviews
"For a first novel, I’m impressed with Ice Song. A rich world has been created. In the end, I was quite impressed by how it grew in my mind in the wake of Sorykah’...
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The Possibility of Everything
www.outriggerhawaii.com reviews
You know the axiom that goes, “It’s not what you know but who?” Some would say that’s true about life on Kaua’i. I’ll never forget one Saturday afternoon a few...
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