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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 9:35 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 6:37 PM
Book Report: These two works double my pleasure
Today, two books about two very different men who were born not very far from my own natal place.
By Dave Wood, columnist , September 30, 2011
Book Report: Past U.S. leader rises from the dust heap; Red Wing author composes second work in series
I’ve never thought much about our 20th American president, James Garfield.
September 23, 2011
Book Report: Area authors make good in the world of literature
Long, long ago, Sinclair Lewis wrote an essay entitled “The Long Arm of the Small Town,” in which he admitted that he had left his natal place, Sauk Centre, Minn., but that it was always with him as he went on to become the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
By Dave Wood, columnist , September 19, 2011
Book Report: Twin Cities’ mystery, Norwegian spirit in this week’s spotlight
White Bear Lake, Minn., author Julie Kramer is on a roll. After award winning outings with “Silencing Sam,” “Missing Mark,” and “Stalking Susan,” she’s out with another alliterative title, “Killing Kate” (Atria Books, $23.99).
By Dave Wood, columnist , September 09, 2011
Book Review: Nail poetry? High adventure? Pick one or both for a good read
Lots of people don’t like poetry because they figure the subject matter is full of highfalutin’ stuff they have no interest in, like knights of the round table or beautiful sunsets or romantic rendezvous.
By Dave Wood, columnist , September 02, 2011
Book Report: Fictional tales from outer space, Minneapolis make good reads
“Heaven’s Shadow,” by David S. Goyer and Michael Cassutt (Penguin, $25.95) is a science fiction novel that I’ll bet is heading for moviedom. It concerns a near-Earth object named “Keanu.”
By Dave Wood, columnist , August 25, 2011
Book Report: Read about Ohio ‘briars,’or Twin Cities’ jazz scene in this week’s offerings
Years back, I had a student named Gaylon Kennedy, who hailed from southern Ohio. He regaled me with stories about folks he called “briars,” laborers who came up from Kentucky and West Virginia to work at the steel mills of his hometown, Middletown, Ohio.
By Dave Wood, columnist , August 19, 2011
Book Report: Young adult novels good for a change
In 2003, I had the privilege to speak at a very fine writers’ conference in Eau Claire.
By Dave Wood, columnist , August 12, 2011
Book Report: Mystery or poetry? Take your pick
Tired of crime novels set in Frisco, The Big Apple, LA?
By Dave Wood, columnist , August 05, 2011
Book Report: Look at history this week: American and Spanish
Here’s a book to take to the lake.
July 29, 2011
Book Report: The ‘real’ Glenn Ford revealed, and a book that pokes personal memories
“In hindsight, he becomes more interesting and more drawn to sado-masochism. I suspect he was more, and worse, than the decent guy he pretended to be.”
By Dave Wood, columnist , July 22, 2011
Book Report: This week there’s a moonshine mess, a terrier’s tale
Up in Stearns County they still talk about a moonshine operation called, I believe, “Minnesota 101,” which made hooch so good that it continued in operation years after Prohibition was repealed.
By Dave Wood, columnist , June 29, 2011
Book Report: Adolescent’s recipes, school ma’am’s memories fit the bill this week
Milkweed Editions of Minneapolis has figured out a way to kill two birds with one stone.
By Dave Wood, columnist , June 23, 2011
Book Report: Let’s hear it for those alternative printing sites
Thank goodness for university presses. While the big New York publishers languish, academic presses previously concerned with arcane subject matter have again and again taken up the slack and published books for the general reader. The University of Minnesota Press is one such establishment.
By Dave Wood, columnist , June 16, 2011
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