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R.H. STAFFORD'S LIBRARY WOMAN Need a winter fix?
Ive got a couple of ideas. Washington County Library kicks off its Winter Reading program for adults Winter Jackets on February 1. Sure its great to get outdoors during the day to participate in all...
Posted on 1/30/13 at 9:33 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: What readers crave: Clear, lively wordplay
Today we’ll examine two new books that have to do with good writing by writers who are indeed very good.
October 10, 2012
Book Review: Insider knowledge leads to gripping story; Feingold's "While America Sleeps"
White Bear Lake novelist Julie Kramer makes good use of her past experience as a news producer for NBC, CBS and WCCO-TV, which is only one reason she has become a national bestselling and award winning author of thrillers like her latest in her popular Riley Spartz series, “Shunning Sarah” (Atria Books, $23.99).
By Dave Wood, columnist , September 27, 2012
Book Report: Memories: Looking back on what was, wasn’t and the many paths not taken
When you are in your twenties, even if you’re confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and of what you in life are, and might become.
By Dave Wood, columnist , September 19, 2012
Book Report: Exposing the underbelly of old D.C.
It’s no secret that talent runs in families. Years ago I worked with Anthony Morley on the Minneapolis Tribune.
By Dave Wood, columnist , September 07, 2012
Book Report: This author shines as voice of a community
Novelist Toni Morrison has won the National Book Critics Circle, the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for her fiction.
By Dave Wood, columnist , August 29, 2012
Book Review: Did she or didn’t she: Does it even matter?
Dorothy Parker was born on this day 119 years ago in West End, N.J., just a year after poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, about which Parker said “I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers.”
By Dave Wood, columnist , August 24, 2012
Book Report: Remedy/curse: Drug highs and lows
Thomas De Quincy was born on this day in 1785, and would later write an eerie book that captured the romantic imagination, “Confessions of an Opium Eater.”
August 17, 2012
Book Report: Big heart for a big ‘horse’ of a guy
I was in high school when Heisman Trophy winner Alan Ameche was making big news on Big Ten gridirons.
August 09, 2012
Book Report: This mystery worthy of Masterpiece Theatre
I’m not a big fan of detective novels in general, but I’m a sucker for the works of Agatha Christie and P.G. Wodehouse ever since I bought a 25-cent paperback of the latter’s hilarious novel, “Psmith” when I was a kid.
By Dave Wood, columnist , August 02, 2012
Book Report: Duluth poet: A blunt, dazzling wordsmith
Normally I write about two books each week — one national and one regional.
By Dave Wood, columnist , July 30, 2012
Book Report: Historical tinkering makes for lively reading
I’ve written before about alternative history and writers like Harry Turtledove. He writes what I like to call “what if” novels.
By Dave Wood, columnist , July 18, 2012
Book Report: ‘Birdseye’ look at frozen food, more
Mark Kurlansky astounded the reading world several years ago when he wrote “Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World.”
By Dave Wood, Book Reviewer , July 12, 2012
Book Report: Author revels in fine details
Oh, shucks, thought I. Sara Rath has given up on non-fiction and has taken to penning novels when I received the Spring Green author’s “The Waters of Star Lake,” by Sara Rath (Terrace Books, $26.95).
By Dave Wood, Book Reviewer , June 28, 2012
You can hear the crack of the bat
In one sense, baseball is a game of numbers, numbers involving runs batted in, earned run averages, singles, two-baggers, homers, attendance. My late friend Dave Goldsmith subscribed to Baseball Digest, several baseball newspapers and even flunked out of a college because he spent his entire freshman year memorizing baseball statistics.
By Dave Wood, Book Reviewer , June 21, 2012
Book Report: Genre readers are going for smut
Extra! Extra! Late breaking news from the publishing industry.
And it’s not good news.
By Dave Wood, columnist , June 18, 2012
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