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R.H. STAFFORD'S LIBRARY WOMAN You're invited...
Join the Senior Book Club for their monthly meeting at R.H. Stafford Library in Woodbury-- this Friday, Dec. 9 from 10:30 a.m. to 12 noon in the Valley Creek Room. Local author Alice Mergel Alme will ...
Posted on 12/6/11 at 8:35 AM
ON MY MIND Tools to keep track of your books
I have a habit of keeping records of the books I read, and I have a simple way to do it. I use an index card to write the author, title, subject headings, call number, the dates it was read. They are ...
Posted on 4/26/10 at 5:37 PM
Book Report: About those book covers…
I was told years ago by my English teacher Sara Keeler that one should never judge a book by its cover, but I couldn’t resist the wrapping of Minnesota author Carla Hagen’s new book from North Star Press of St. Cloud, “Hand Me Down My Walking Cane.”
By Dave Wood, columnist , January 26, 2012
Book Report: Try authors with an edgy twist 
I’ve been a big fan of female humorists for years, starting from the days when I first read about Dorothy Parker and her antics at the Algonquin Hotel. That’s where she parried with the male wits like Alexander Woolcott and Robert Benchley to great acclaim.
By Dave Wood, columnist , January 20, 2012
Book Report: Murder, mayhem and other delights
How’s this for a plot? Mild-mannered accountant Walter Cousins puts his wife Lydia in a sanatorium when she becomes temporarily unbalanced, then takes on a 15-year-old British girl, Diane, as an au pair to take care of his kids.
By Dave Wood, columnist , January 13, 2012
Book Review: Author aims at straight-laced Minnesotans
It’s always eye-opening to read a foreigner’s take on life in these United States.
By Dave Wood, columnist , January 05, 2012
Book Report: Keep reading, keep discovering
Just when you think you know all you need to know about a subject, a new book pops up and you’re able to learn much more.
By Dave Wood, columnist , December 29, 2011
Book Review: How it all ends: Writers keep probing, reinventing
Readers can’t seem to get enough of dystopian stories.
By Dave Wood, columnist , December 23, 2011
Book Report: Old standbys make great gifts
Last week I mentioned several notable books of 2011 readers might like to consider when they’re out shopping for gifts.
By Dave Wood, columnist , December 16, 2011
Book Report: Books make great gifts, put these on your list
Gift giving time has once again rolled around and today we’ll talk about some notable books I’ve read and reviewed over the past year. We’ll start with some books from the region, then move on to books published in New York City, (some of them from authors in our region):
By Dan Wunrow, Outdoor Columnist , December 09, 2011
Book Report: Eisenhower: An in-depth look
Dwight D. Eisenhower was a much admired and likeable president who accomplished much during his presidency. But he wasn’t much of a speaker.
There’s an old story that wonders what Ike would have said had he the opportunity to deliver the Gettysburg Address.
By Dave Wood, columnist , December 01, 2011
A few years with a famous author, jazz in the Twin Cities, life in the Dakotas in 1936 for this week
Ernest Hemingway is by no means a beloved American author in the minds of many people.
November 25, 2011
A Hollywood upbringing, cows, Vietnam War on tap as this week’s selections
Even before Michael Lindsay-Hogg made his name as a director of films like “Brideshead Revisited” and the Beatles’ “Let it Be,” he led an exciting life as the son of the talented actress Geraldine Fitzgerald (“Wuthering Heights,” et al.) and a father who was a baronet.
By Dave Wood, columnist , November 17, 2011
Book Report: Death, travel, voodoo will interest readers
Here’s a book that should make it from the region all around the country.
It’s “A New Billy Collins: Keeping an Eye on Death,” by Joy Lee Davis (Trade Press, Inc., 4312 Pond View, White Bear Lake, 55110, $20.)
By Dave Wood, columnist , November 11, 2011
Book Report: Read about revolutionaries, get spooked, too
I remember my political science professor telling us naïve freshmen that if you took strip of plastic and bent it into a hula hoop, fascists and communists would end up together at the juncture where the two ends meet.
By Dave Wood, columnist , November 03, 2011
Book Report: With winter months approaching, read about Antarctica’s explorers
Two months from last Friday marks the 100th anniversary of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen’s historic arrival at the South Pole.
By Dave Wood, columnist , October 27, 2011
Book Report: Imagine: Holocaust in comic book form
Several years ago, my more sophisticated colleagues on the National Book Critics Circle Board were raving about a new book.
By Dave Wood, columnist , October 21, 2011
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