08.10.2012 Community Book Column: More than one way to discuss a book Food and literature both sustain us and it is a wonderful thing when they do it together. The book ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ by Laura Esquivel has been the...
07.13.2012 Community Book Column: What’s the deal with working so hard? Imagine that there is a science fiction book by someone like Robert Heinlein or Arthur C. Clarke that posits a distant planet where thousands of scientists from a hundred...
06.08.2012 Community By the Book: Why some vowels are weird and wonderful Remember learning the vowels, A, E, I, O and U, with the teacher inevitably adding “ … and sometimes Y and W”? Well, I’ve come up with 16 impressive...
05.06.2012 Community By the Book: Tuning in to what nature has to say We have an old copy of ‘Petersen’s Field Guide to the Birds.’ We’ve spotted most of the usual suspects, and also have seen some unusual ones. An American kestrel...
04.21.2012 Community By the Book: Novel ways to enjoy communal books April may well be the cruelest month: Fighting season begins again as the mountain passes thaw in Afghanistan, tornadoes rampage throughout the Midwest, taxes must be paid and we...
02.04.2012 Community By the Book: Songs that tell us stories about love And so it is in human life the goal To seek, forever seek, the kindred soul Jose Marti St. Valentine’s Day is next week — the day that urges...
01.21.2012 Community By the Book: In 2012, broaden your reading horizons January is the month for resolutions, for fresh starts, for trying to get things right. Mostly we focus on our bodies, trying to lose weight, get fitter, stronger and...
01.08.2012 Community By the Book: Literary menagerie equals good reading “War Horse” opened recently to rave reviews. A Spielberg movie, a Broadway play, from a book by Michael Morpurgo — eat your hearts out, all you authors out there....
