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Loving "All for Love"
I loved this book. As soon as I finished it, I wanted to start it again.My college-age son is enjoying it too.It is a wonderful way for the two of us to connect.With elegance and humor, Mr. Mehta captures those all-too-familiar feelings of being uncontrollably drawn to someone long after good sense would tell you to move on. His courage and honesty in discussing his psychoanalysis make his childhood games of leaping from rooftop to rooftop, despite his blindness, seem tame in comparison. Ultimately, "All for Love" allows the reader to forgive himself or herself for lapses of judgment they may havemade in their own romantic encounters. Read it!

Love Is All
Ved Mehta's remarkable "All For Love" might be called a memoir, a looking back upon a fumbling, yearning period in a complicated man's younger life. But the book inhabits both the past and the present, the author understanding at one and the same moment what he was and what he is. He looks at four long-ago love affairs, and through the inclusion of the women's love letters to him he lets us see who they were, to themselves as well as to him, at that time. He writes as a man from India assuming the role of a major New Yorker writer. Though he cannot see, he understands how everything looks. Emotionally, he seems to know what love did to him, and what he did to love. He was much helped, as he explains, by psychoanalysis; but his insights come through that painful and courageous reaching into the dark which is the only way to the light. This is a beautiful and courageous book by a writer who lives, within and without, in many dimensions. I was very moved by it and doubt there will ever be another book quite to match it.

Fromthe Personal to the Universal
This book is above all a compelling read.It is the only memoir I have ever encountered which is not in the least self-serving, prideful, or rancorous.In fact it is excruciatingly objective.By describing in elegant, spare prose the particulars of four love affairs as he lived them at the time, he reveals something profound and universal about what it is to fall in love, and his very real blindness becomes a metaphor for the blindness that produces fantasy, misunderstanding and, alas, pain.This is a beautiful and wise book, as gripping as a novel, and utterly absorbing.I have recommended it to friends who then found they could not put the book down.

Pure drivel
In yet another installment (whenever will it end?) in his self-serving autobiogrpahical series, Mehta devles into far too much detail about his love life. The point? I'm sure there must be one, but it's painfully clear than Mehta wants to prove that despite being blind, he was still man enough to get girls. His vanity and hubris are on clear display and one has to wonder why he felt the need to share this type of personal information with the general topic. Perhaps he's running out of things to write about. In any case, this book is a work of pure ego and not worth the time. ... Read more

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In this novel by Corín Tellado, an author whose name has become the synonym of romantic literature, we are swept away by a new adventure. Young Nita is completely disconcerted when her cousin Kaden, who has lived with Nita and her mother for many years, now confesses his love for her. Nita, who has fallen head-over-heels in love with a mysterious suitor, cannot return Kaden’s love. In his letters, our gentleman talks of a tender, peaceful and devout love. Will Nita ever find out the identity of her devoted admirer? Will the man she finds behind the mystery be up to her expectations?Description in Spanish: La joven Nita se queda completamente desconcertada cuando su primo Kaden, que vive con ella y su madre desde hace muchos años, le confiesa su amor. Por desgracia, la protagonista no puede corresponderle, pues está locamente enamorada de un misterioso pretendiente que le declara por carta su amor devoto, tierno y sosegado. ¿Descubrirá Nita la identidad de su entregado admirador? ¿Estará el descubrimiento a la altura de sus expectativas? ... Read more

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THESE HEROES ARE 100 PERCENT RAW, DANGEROUS, AND . . . UNDENIABLY SEXY.New York Times bestselling authors Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love, and Cindy Gerard and rising romance star Laura Griffin mix seduction and suspense in three irresistible romantic adventures. From sultry international jungles to the rugged terrain of the American Southwest, join the larger-than-life, scorching-hot alpha heroes of the Bureau of American Defense, Black Ops, Inc., and the U.S. Navy SEALs for all the pulse-pounding, heart-racing, toe-curling excitement. They’re cool under pressure, steamy under the sheets, and when the enemy strikes, there’s not a lethal mission these gorgeous men can’t handle. . . . Just Bad Enough

Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna LoveLeave No Trace

Cindy GerardUnstoppable

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Highly recommended!
I ordered this book to 'fill in' while waiting for the next Laura Griffin book to be released. Turns out that I could highly recommend this collection of shorts, including authors besides L. Griffin! It's an exciting read!

A great buy!
I was very happy to find myself loving all 3 stories in this book.Usually when I buy a book with 3 stories in it from 3 separate authors I wind up liking just 1 story and then am stuck with the other 2.Not in this case!I loved ALL THREE stories here.I have always loved Sherillyn Kenyon and Cindy Gerard and have many of their books so I anticipated that I would like their stories and I did.I had never heard of Laura Griffin before but I thought her story was easily as good as the other two.I LOVE finding great new authors and will be looking for more from all 3 authors!

fun romantic suspense novellas
"Just Bad Enough" by Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love.CeCe Caprice earns her living by performing as a statue.Her performance is so good, someone assumes she is a statue and hides a revealing recording on her body.Only her next door neighbor, Bureau of American Defense undercover agent Jeremy Sunn might be able to keep CeCe safe from the mob.

"Leave No Trace" by Cindy Gerard.CIA operative David Cavanaugh goes to Myanmar to get American Carrie Granger out of a labor prison.

"Unstoppable" by Laura Griffin.Forensic anthropologist Kelsey Quinn and former SEAL Gage Brewer accidentally end up at a location where a double murder occurred several months ago.The murders have ties to illegal immigration and a terrorist plot.

Although readers will need to ignore believability (big time for the first two entries and somewhat less for the other) romantic suspense fans will enjoy the latest BAD tale and the other two action-packed thrillers.

Harriet Klausner

This anthology includes 3 solid reads; my favorite is Laura Griffin's Unstoppable
Deadly Promises by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love, Cindy Gerard, and Laura Griffin
Romantic Suspense- Sept. 28th, 2010
4 stars

This anthology includes 3 solid reads; my favorite is Laura Griffin's Unstoppable. In this book 2 of the stories are a part of an ongoing series.Laura Griffin continues her Tracers series and Sherrilyn Kenyon/Dianna Love continue their BAD series.

Unstoppable
In Unstoppable Laura Griffin writes a story that is part of her exhilarating Tracers series.This story starts out with action that immediately caught my attention.Gage is a navy SEAL who has been injured.While recovering he is asked by his commanding officer to guard his niece, Dr. Kelsey Quinn.Kelsey is working at an archeological dig where a woman has been shot nearby and there has been a break in.But she believes in her work and knows she can take care of herself.She resents the sexy Quinn `babysitting' her.But when they find fresh, new bones instead of old ones and a secret tunnel both realize that something dangerous is going on.But can they solve the mystery before the killers find them?
This was a thrilling suspense novel from start to finish.It was also the most interesting of the 3 stories.I was amazed the author was able to build such an exciting multi-layered plot in such a short story.It didn't hurt that Gage is tough and way HOT!Plus Kelsey is very feisty and a heroine after my own heart.4 ½ stars

Leave No Trace
In Leave No Trace Cindy Gerard demonstrates her mastery of the suspense thriller.David Cavanaugh is tired of his undercover work for the CIA.He desperately wants to retire but when a colleague asks Cav to find his missing friend (Carrie Granger) hereluctantly agrees.Cav arrives in Myanmar where he discovers Carrie has been caught up in a bungled arrest. To cover up their mistake the government has thrown her in their ruby mines where she labors as a virtual slave.To free her Cav must pretend to work with the corrupt government in Myanmar.Can Carrie learn to trust him or will this rescue mission end in tragedy for them both?
This was an exhilarating read and one where I could feel the tension between the 2 characters and the storyline.Cav was a dashing hero and Carrie was believable.I really felt for both of them and they had a wonderful chemistry.4 ½ stars

Just Bad Enough- part of their BAD series
In Just Bad Enough we meet undercover agent Jeremy Sunn.Jeremy has the hots for CeCe.But as part of his cover he has a rap sheet a mile long.He acts the playboy with a series of women.But since he met CeCe he wants a real relationship.Unfortunately, she seems to be putting him off.CeCe has secrets of her own.She has ties to criminals that she has been running away from.When CeCe unknowingly hides an important memory disc she and Jeremy must fight a deadly killer who wants it.But what will happen when gun shy CeCe finds out about Jeremy's fake criminal history? Will their deception and lies destroy their budding relationship?
This was a fast read and I really liked the hero.He was definitely sexy and noble.But I didn't like how CeCe treated him.Her excuses not to be with him did not seem realistic and her character was a little wimpy.I really felt bad for Jeremy, who I grew to care about.Because of this I could only rate this story 3 1/2 stars.

Reviewed by Steph from the Bookaholics Romance Book Club

Three great stories!
I pre-ordered this book because I'm a fan of Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love's BAD Agency series, and never miss any story if those characters are involved.I'm happy to say I got the bonus of two other great reads in this book!

I'm a sucker for SEAL heroes, always such honorable, damaged characters, and Laura Griffin does a great job with "Unstoppable".I hadn't read Laura's books before, and I'm officially her newest fan.I already knew Cindy Gerard wrote awesome edge-of-your-seat suspense, and "Leave No Trace" didn't disappoint either.

Of course, the real reason I ended up with Deadly Promises is for "Just Bad Enough"--the latest BAD agency story. I'd seen glimpses of Jeremy Sunn in previous books, but wasn't expecting him to have his own story any time soon.He seemed like such a prankster surfer boy. The smart-ass prankster is there for certain, but flip that coin and he's got a complicated dark side I never would have expected. He's the type you might think is harmless, but just like the other BAD agents, don't get between him and somebody he cares about. And when his new neighbor, CeCe, is threatened, he cares. Kenyon and Love know how to pack a lot of story into a few pages.

This anthology would be worth getting just for Jeremy's story, but I was thrilled with the other stories, each one perfect for a quick afternoon read, all in this one book. Perfect for a boring airport wait. I traveled this weekend and was actually hoping the plane would be late so I wouldn't have to stop reading to board!

I absolutely recommend this anthology. ... Read more

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I took a walk on Spaulding's Farm the other afternoon. I saw the setting sun lighting up the opposite side of a stately pine wood. Its golden rays straggled into the aisles of the wood as into some noble hall. I was impressed as if some ancient and altogether admirable and shining family had settled there in that part of the land called Concord, unknown to me,—to whom the sun was servant,—who had not gone into society in the village,—who had not been called on. I saw their park, their pleasure-ground, beyond through the wood, in Spaulding's cranberry-meadow. The pines furnished them with gables as they grew. Their house was not obvious to vision; their trees grew through it. I do not know whether I heard the sounds of a suppressed hilarity or not. They seemed to recline on the sunbeams. They have sons and daughters. They are quite well. The farmer's cart-path, which leads directly through their hall, does not in the least put them out,—as the muddy bottom of a pool is sometimes seen through the reflected skies. They never heard of Spaulding, and do not know that he is their neighbor,—notwithstanding I heard him whistle as he drove his team through the house. Nothing can equal the serenity of their lives. Their coat of arms is simply a lichen. I saw it painted on the pines and oaks. Their attics were in the tops of the trees. They are of no politics. There was no noise of labor. I did not perceive that they were weaving or spinning. Yet I did detect, when the wind lulled and hearing was done away, the finest imaginable sweet musical hum,—as of a distant hive in May, which perchance was the sound of their thinking. They had no idle thoughts, and no one without could see their work, for their industry was not as in knots and excrescences embayed.
But I find it difficult to remember them. They fade irrevocably out of my mind even now while I speak and endeavor to recall them, and recollect myself. It is only after a long and serious effort to recollect my best thoughts that I become again aware of their cohabitancy. If it were not for such families as this, I think I should move out of Concord.
Thoreau: "WALKING."
Amazon.com Review
"Lilith is equal if not superior to the best of Poe,"the great 20th-century poet W.H. Auden said of this novel, but thecomparison only begins to touch on the richness, density, and wonderof this late 19th-century adult fantasy novel. First published in 1895(inhabiting a universe with the early Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, andOscar Wilde--not to mention Thomas Hardy), this is the story of theaptly named Mr. Vane, his magical house, and the journeys into anotherworld into which it leads him.

Meeting up with one mystery afteranother, including Adam and Eve themselves, he slowly but surelyexplores the mystery of the human fall from grace, and of ourredemption. Instructed into the ways of seeing the deeper realities ofthis world--seeing, in a sense, by the light of the spirit--the readerand Mr. Vane both sense that MacDonald writes from his own deepexperience of radiance, from a bliss so profound that death's darknessitself is utterly eclipsed in its light. --Doug Thorpe ... Read more

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Thought I would like it, but...
Since I like MacDonald's novels in general, I thought I would like Lilith, but I didn't. Maybe it's too difficult for me. I fought through it and enjoyed certain portions, but I was tempted not to finish it. I think it might be "over my head." I'm not talking about the "universalist" theology of it, because I understand what he is saying there, although I think the Bible clearly does not support it (I sense a temptation within myself to wish universalism were true), but I could have found much value in the story anyway if I could have understood it more thoroughly. I'm writing this review as a warning to readers like me who enjoy MacDonald's non-fantasy novels (and I prefer his originals there to the modernized versions) but will find Lilith to be a far different reading experience, one that they may not enjoy.

Vintage MacDonald
Great read.It's not an easily decipherable 1-to-1 allegory, but full of symbolism.I don't think it's my favorite MacDonald work, but still very good.Especially if you like this author.This particular book was much bigger than I expected.It's large-ish print with lots of space.I would have gotten a different version had I realized that.

Not Up to Other Horror Greats of His Era
This book put me to sleep every time I went to read it.I read dry histories without falling asleep.This is a mighty indictment from me.

Re-read every few years
This is one of my all time favorite books.You will find tinges of this book in the writings of CS Lewis... and JK Rowlings.
The images MacDonald creates and the story line, will haunt you for years to come.And the theology... though challenging and a bit controversial... will force you to rethink some of your ideas about salvation and damnation.
An important note on this particular edition (by Wilder Publications) is that the cover picture, as well as the write up in the back cover are for a totally different book... so if you just want an extra copy for your personal use (as I did) then buy it... but if you are looking at a copy you can give or loan, I would purchase one of the other editions.

Dreamlike
Even according to my usually odd tastes, Lilith is a strange read, certainly stranger and more surreal than the works of C.S. Lewis, who was greatly inspired by MacDonald. The beginning has a standard fantasy feel. The hero, Mr. Vane, is seeing to his estate. One day in the library he sees a strange apparition. Curious, he follows the spirit of the enigmatic Mr. Raven and finds himself led into a fantastical otherworld. From there the narrative becomes decidedly bizarre. Reading Lilith is like peering into a dream as Vane encounters a steady procession of inexplicable situations and grotesque images. In fact, MacDonald packs the book with so many symbols and lessons that the narrative structure tends to break down a little, and I found the story dragged quite a bit in the middle. This and MacDonald's sometimes awkward attempts at exposition made finishing the book questionable for me for a large portion of the story.

Yet I persisted... and I'm glad I did! I find it a little difficult to say why I liked Lilith. MacDonald was writing for Christian readers, and I am not one of them. I wanted to read it because of my general interest in religious imagery in fantasy and a more specific interest in the odd ways that particular mythological character has been reinvented and reinterpreted by different people. I certainly do not embrace all of MacDonald's moral ideologies fully, and some I find vaguely distasteful. Even so, I was enthralled with the images MacDonald chose to describe Vane's spiritual journey. I was intrigued when Mr. Raven subjects Vane to a Zen-like line of questioning at the beginning of the novel. I found the description of Vane's redemption and rebirth deeply moving and beautiful. Perhaps this is just my Christian upbringing showing through, but I like to think it also speaks to the relatedness of all spiritual seeking, and to the deeps well of myth and imagination from which MacDonald drew. ... Read more

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Enthusiastically praised by everyone from Bernie Siegel to Daniel Goleman to Larry Dossey, Rachel Remen has a unique perspective on healing rooted in her background as a physician, a professor of medicine, a therapist, and a long-term survivor of chronic illness. A deeply moving and down-to-earth collection of true stories, this prominent physician shows us life in all its power and mystery and reminds us that the things we cannot measure may be the things that ultimately sustain and enrich our lives. Kitchen Table Wisdom addresses spiritual issues-suffering, meaning, love, faith, courage, and miracles-in the language and authority of our own life experience.

Foreword by Dean Ornish, M.D.

"This is a beautiful book about life, the only true teacher."-Bernie Siegel, M.D.

"Rachel Naomi Remen is nature's gift to us, a genius of that elusive and crucial capacity, the human heart. She has much to teach us about healing, loving, and living."-Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., author of Emotional Intelligence

"A great healer and a living saint."-Larry Dossey, M.D.

"Heartfelt...compassionate and courageous."-Publishers Weekly

"I recommend this book highly to everyone."-Deepak Chopra, M.D.Amazon.com Review
"Sitting around the table telling stories is not just away of passing time," writes Rachel Naomi Remen in herintroduction to Kitchen Table Wisdom. "It is the waywisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us live a life worthremembering." Remen, a physician, therapist, professor ofmedicine, and long-term survivor of chronic illness, is also adown-home storyteller. Reading this collection of real-life parablesfeels like a late-night kitchen session with a best friend, munchingon leftovers while listening to the good-as-gossip stories of everydayheroes and archetype villains. Every story guides us like a lifecompass, showing us what's good and lasting about ourselves as well ashumanity. ... Read more

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Kitchen Table Wisdom
I enjoyed this book so much that I bought extra copies for my sister and daughter-in-law.The many thoughts in the book make it a book I plan to refer to periodically in the future.It was well written, and had many good ideas...

A wonderful book, filled with truth and emotion
Someone gave me this book as a gift.I gave it forward, but purchased another copy for my husband when problems put him in hospital waiting rooms for hours at a time.It's a beautiful, timeless book.

Unbelievably cleansing
I loved this book.It inspired me so much I gave it to a friend after I finished it. Now I wish I hadn't, cause I want to read it again and again.It's a brilliantly uplifting book.I would recommend it to anyone who's still breathing.Read it.

Best book ever
This may be the best book I ever read. Thoughtful, enlightening, funny and broken down into 3 to 6 page vignettes so it is easily readable. I want to give it to everyone I know. EP

Introspective life stories
There was a seeming dual purpose motivating the author to write this book.Remen is a medical doctor who basically tells the stories about how her professional experiences moved her closer to, rather than away from, emotional involvement with her clients particularly as it pertained to the connection between one's spirituality and recovery,amongst other things.
Remen also shares some very deep and moving stories that were shared with her by her clients once she became a therapist.
It's a wonderful read and will be helpful to anyone seeking spiritual enlightenment and motivation. ... Read more

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This long awaited epilogue of the Chesapeake Bay Saga brings us Seth Quinn’s story. Now a grown man returning from Europe as a successful painter, Seth is settling down on Maryland's Eastern Shore, surrounded once again by all the blessed chaos of the extended Quinn clan. A lot has changed since he's been gone - and the most intriguing change of all is the presence of Dru Whitcomb Banks, a city girl craving independence and the challenge of establishing herself without the influence of her wealthy connections. But storms are brewing that are about to put their relationship to the test. Dru's past has made her sensitive to deception and Seth's past has made him a target of blackmail...Description in Spanish: Seth era un muchacho díscolo y retraído cuando a los diez años fue adoptado por Ray Quinn, viudo y casi un anciano. Con el paso del tiempo el cuarto Quinn se ha convertido en un pintor de prestigio y, tras una estancia en Europa, vuelve al pequeño pueblo costero donde sus hermanos-tíos, Cam, Ethan y Phillip, junto a sus esposas e hijos, regentan un negocio de construcción de veleros. Finalmente, en una casita blanca y azul, en la que nunca falta una hamaca en el porche y un perro en el jardín, Seth parece haber encontrado la paz con su peculiar familia adoptiva. Allí vive un apasionado amor con una joven… hasta que su madre se interpone de nuevo en su camino. ... Read more

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La Bahia Azul
Estuve esperando esta novela con muchas ansias. Gracias queridisima Nora por escribirla. Soy seguidora suya. Bendiciones. ... Read more

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Picano recalls the days of his feisty young adulthood when he was beginning to come into his own as a writer. This latest volume of Picano's critically-acclaimed memoirs spans the heyday of his life in the Fire Island Pines and Manhattan during the late '60s and '70s and describes with humor and wistfulness the cruising, partying gay culture of the Pines in the days before AIDS awareness. ... Read more

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As engaging as any novel could be, but actually a memoir!
Being the rabid Picano fan that I am, it's not always easy to consider myself unbiased. However, since I thoroughly disliked his Like People in History, I feel I can be more objective now.

That said, A House on the Ocean, a House on the Bay: A Memoir is amazing. It is a thoroughly engaging book that takes us on an interesting journey of one man's life that is terribly full and robust. However, like many a Southern author (which Mr. Picano is NOT), Picano manages to make this book feel like a leisurely wander, allowing us to discover the nuances he wants us to realize at his pace and not at the pace of our reading.

It's a trick not easily done.

This is a fine book about Picano's time spent on Fire Island and the people he knew and loved during that time.

I highly recommend this book.

Picano's Finest Hour
Although I have read most all of Felice Picano's books, I find myself returning to A HOUSE ON THE OCEAN, A HOUSE ON THE BAY most frequently - sometimes just for recalling his atmospheric descriptions of places with and without people, sometimes just to re-visit Fire Island - a place I've never been but that has become for me a solid symbol of East Coast escape.Picano's memoirs at times are overwhelming: how could one man have experienced life so richly and tranposed it to words for us, the voyeur readers?Perhaps the places and people he so succinctly describes are bathed in poetic license, but that only makes the moments in between interpersonal encounters pregnant pauses.Picano has managed to keep us entertained book after book and I eagerly await the release of ONYX.

So far this volume remains my favorite
Checking as to when the next novel by Felice Picano is due out, I realized that though I have read all his books I have never written about them in this forum.Strange, but understandable when I look back over all the experiences of reading his work.Picano writes in the manner of long nighttime walks with a close friend: he shares quips and bedazzling escapades and memories of lost friends like few others.His stories are at once funny, tender, bitchy(in a way that few can imitate), and just plain good stories.In A HOUSE ON THE OCEAN, A HOUSE ON THE BAY he seems to have paused in the midst of memories very special to him...or at least his characters are so acutely drawn that they seem like pages from a diary.If you've ever wondered what Fire Island was like at its peak, here it is.Wonderful tales populated by people you'd like to know....or at least have observed!Felice Picano keeps treating us to fine writing and I eagerly await ONYX!

Oh my, this is my favorite book of all time
I am Felice Picano, or certainly am living his life.Well, sort of.When I read straight through this book--a library copy, I am going to buy it now--I said to myself and to my friends that I loved the book so much because of how much I see of him in me, including that he was also born on February 22nd, that we are both gay, and that I am struggling, as he was, to write.If any book can give me inspiration to live my dream, it is "A House on the Ocean, A House on the Bay."Bravo to Picano for writing a book that was written for me.

The best of Picano's memoirs to date. Absolutely compelling.
Frankly, when I got to the final 100 pages, on Gay Pride Night, no less, Iwas so compelled to finish the book that I stayed up all night to finish itand then pack for a business trip to London.

Picking up his life in themid-1970s, Picano gives an account of post-liberation, book store jobs,love affairs, friendships, and the wisdom of time and difference.

Onceagain, it is split in parts. The first details a tortured menage a trois inwhich Felice is the one wanted "for his mind." He works as a bookstore manager and plans a career as a writer.

In the second part, hediscusses the Fire Island scene, the "Gay 2000" who influencedgay culture and the broader culture at large, and his job at a fancierbookstore--unnamed by recognizable as Rizzoli.

Picano, more here thanelsewhere, comes into contact with more recognizablecelebrities--wide-ranging from Rose Kennedy to Bette Midler (in herbathhouse singer days).

Picano also reflects on his position as asurvivor--the remaining 2% left after the AIDS crisis devestates the Gay2000, and his role now as a witness.

Also apparent is Picano's fineeducation, cultural appreciation, love of writing, determined confidence,and perceptive mind. This is the book that sent me into a summer of readingwhatever Picano books I could find. It's hard to imagine anyone--gay orstraight--not getting something out of this memoir. Truly a voice of hisgeneration, and for future ones as well

Yeah, I liked the book. :-)) ... Read more

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In this, her latest of many published works, Lucile Bogue recounts her experiences during a summer long ago when, as a petite mother of two young children, she spent a summer single-handedly running an isolated Colorado ranch.With the freshness and humor that only the most practiced of writers can bring to a tale, Bogue recalls how a city girl muscled her way through one near disaster after another. If you are looking for a read-aloud book to share with your friends or children, this one-two punch of humor and drama is it.Bound to be a hit with anyone who has lived on a ranch or bitten off more that they could chew.An insight into the remarkable life of Lucile Bogue, who would later found a college in Colorado, tour the world, and win world-wide acclaim as a poet, playwright, and storyteller for all generations. Illustrated. ... Read more

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This is a book of short stories about old romances written in a creative nonfiction format. ... Read more

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

THEOLOGY.

Michael Molinos--Bartholomew Carranza--Jerome Wecchiettus--Samuel Clarke--
Francis David--Antonio de Dominis--Noel Bede--William Tyndale--Arias
Montanus--John Huss--Antonio Bruccioli--Enzinas--Louis Le Maistre--Caspar
Peucer--Grotius--Vorstius--Pasquier Quesnel--Le Courayer--Savonarola--
Michael Servetus--Sebastian Edzardt--William of Ockham--Abelard.

CHAPTER II.

FANATICS AND FREE-THINKERS.

Quirinus Kuhlmann--John Tennhart--Jeremiah Felbinger--Simon Morin--
Liszinski--John Toland--Thomas Woolston--John Biddle--Johann Lyser--
Bernardino Ochino--Samuel Friedrich Willenberg.

CHAPTER III.

ASTROLOGY, ALCHEMY, AND MAGIC.

Henry Cornelius Agrippa--Joseph Francis Borri--Urban Grandier--Dr. Dee--
Edward Kelly--John Darrell.

CHAPTER IV.

SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY.

Bishop Virgil--Roger Bacon--Galileo--Jordano Bruno--Thomas Campanella--De
Lisle de Sales--Denis Diderot--Balthazar Bekker--Isaac de la Peyrere--Abbe
de Marolles--Lucilio Vanini--Jean Rousseau.

CHAPTER V.

HISTORY.

Antonius Palearius--Caesar Baronius--John Michael Bruto--Isaac Berruyer--
Louis Elias Dupin--Noel Alexandre--Peter Giannone--Joseph Sanfelicius
(Eusebius Philopater)--Arlotto--Bonfadio--De Thou--Gilbert Genebrard--
Joseph Audra--Beaumelle--John Mariana--John B. Primi--John Christopher
Ruediger--Rudbeck--Francois Haudicquer--Francois de Rosieres--Anthony
Urseus.

CHAPTER VI.

POLITICS AND STATESMANSHIP.

John Fisher--Reginald Pole--"Martin Marprelate"--Udal--Penry--Hacket--
Coppinger--Arthington--Cartwright--Cowell--Leighton--John Stubbs--Peter
Wentworth--R. Doleman--J. Hales--Reboul--William Prynne--Burton--Bastwick
--John Selden--John Tutchin--Delaune--Samuel Johnson--Algernon Sidney--
Edmund Richer--John de Falkemberg--Jean Lenoir--Simon Linguet--Abbe
Caveirac--Darigrand--Pietro Sarpi--Jerome Maggi--Theodore Reinking.

CHAPTER VII.

SATIRE.

Roger Rabutin de Bussy--M. Dassy--Trajan Boccalini--Pierre Billard--Pietro
Aretino--Felix Hemmerlin--John Giovanni Cinelli--Nicholas Francus--Lorenzo
Valla--Ferrante Pallavicino--Francois Gacon--Daniel Defoe--Du Rosoi--
Caspar Scioppius.

CHAPTER VIII.

POETRY.

Adrian Beverland--Cecco d'Ascoli--George Buchanan--Nicodemus Frischlin--
Clement Marot--Gaspar Weiser--John Williams--Deforges--Theophile--Helot--
Matteo Palmieri--La Grange--Pierre Petit--Voltaire--Montgomery--Keats--
Joseph Ritson.

CHAPTER IX.

DRAMA AND ROMANCE.

Sir John Yorke and Catholic Plays--Abraham Cowley--Antoine Danchet--Claude
Crebillon--Nogaret--Francois de Salignac Fenelon.

CHAPTER X.

BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS.

The Printers of Nicholas de Lyra and Caesar Baronius--John Fust--Richard
Grafton--Jacob van Liesvelt--John Lufftius--Robert Stephens (Estienne)--
Henry Stephens--Simon Ockley--Floyer Sydenham--Edmund Castell--Page--John
Lilburne--Etienne Dolet--John Morin--Christian Wechel--Andrew Wechel--
Jacques Froulle--Godonesche--William Anderton.

CHAPTER XI.

SOME LITERARY MARTYRS.

Leland--Strutt--Cotgrave--Henry Wharton--Robert Heron--Collins--William
Cole--Homeric victims--Joshua Barnes--An example of unrequited toil--
Borgarutius--Pays.

INDEX




BOOKS FATAL TO THEIR AUTHORS.




CHAPTER I.

THEOLOGY.

Michael Molinos--Bartholomew Carranza--Jerome Wecchiettus--Samuel Clarke--
Francis David--Antonio de Dominis--Noel Bede--William Tyndale--Arias
Montanus--John Huss--Antonio Bruccioli--Enzinas--Louis Le Maistre--Gaspar
Peucer--Grotius--Vorstius--Pasquier Quesnel--Le Courayer--Savonarola--
Michael Servetus--Sebastian Edzardt--William of Ockham--Abelard.


Since the knowledge of Truth is the sovereign good of human nature, it is
natural that in every age she should have many seekers, and those who
ventured in quest of her in the dark days of ignorance and superstition
amidst the mists and tempests of the sixteenth century often ran counter
to the opinions of dominant parties, and fell into the hands of foes who
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Just where the track of the Los Gatos road streams on and upward like
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For sixteen years award-winning columnist Linda Weltnerhas invited reader of her syndicated Boston Globe column "Ever SoHumble" into her life, sharing the very real struggles and joys of herfamily relationships as they unfold.In this collection of her mostpopular columns, Weltner offers intriguing insights into theeverchanging roles in a woman's life, as she moves from daughter towife to mother to grandmother."Reading Family Puzzles reminded meonce again of why I have always been a Linda Weltner fan.I laughed;I cried; I reflected; and I learned."--Michael S. Dukakis, formerGovernor of Massachusetts ... Read more

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Wish we could keep reading more of Linda
One of life's pleasures for many of us was reading Linda Weltner's columns in the Boston Globe. A friend in Boston would mail copies of Linda's "Ever so Humble" columns to me, before they were run online. I miss being able to read Linda's weekly columns, but thankfully, she left us all with two great column/essay collections. The pieces in this book are timeless slices of family life, beautifully written, to be read and savored any time we need to celebrate the comforts of home life -- real home life.

A student of life
Linda Weltner writes crisp prose peppered in humor and irony. She seems to be a student of life, who examines and dissects the relationships in her life.She is insightful, moving and very intelligent. Family Puzzles : A Private Life Made Public is engaging because it provides the reader with an honest look at Linda's private life and tribulations.And although we may pick up this book intending to be a voyeur, we finish it a friend and fan of Linda Weltner.

A timely expression of family relationships.
I enjoyed Ms. Weltner's book for a number of reasons. However, at this point in my own life, with aging parents and growing children, I find particular interest in her sharing of her own family experiences. I watch my own relationships change and bend, and I believe the more we share our experiences, the more we have to draw on for our own life and times.

Linda shares a poem she wrote "The Crone". I absolutely loved it, and have shared it with several friends. It represents the voices of older and aging women in our society, who have been cast aside because of age. A wonderful refusal to give in, to give up.

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Flavia Alaya's passionate 20-year affair with a Catholic priest violated the strictest taboos of society, the Church, and her Italian American family. The relationship set Alaya free to become a scholar, political activist, and mother of their three children as Father Harry Browne rose to prominence in community organizing and anti-Vietnam protests. This is a story of a life lived to the fullest. ... Read more

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A Life of Purpose, A Life Shrouded
I was first intrigued by the topic of illicit but loyal love but after reading the book I became more interested in the strength of the author who was able to pursue a career even as she maintained her secret relationshipwith a public figure until he left the Church and as she faced therejection of her parents and some family members.These two burdens alonecould have felled an average woman today but she was also coming of age inan era of turbulent social mores which placed greater strains on her lifeand yet she persevered.This is a worthwhile read for those who areinterested in immigrant assimilation issues, feminism, New York urbandevelopment, and Italian American issues.Ienjoyed the first half of thebook the most because it evoked such a passion for life but the last halfof the book honestly detailed their relationship thus saving it from beingjust another storybook romance.

A personal view
Under the Rose by Flavia Alaya

Let me start by saying that I've known the author for many years. When I received a copy of this book I was curious. Within a few seconds I was plunged deep into her Italian immigrantfamily, so strongly depicted that you almost smell tomato and garlic saucesteaming from the pages. I had thought I knew them. Now I understand that Ididn't even begin to know my own family, and I barely knew my friend.

She has remembered for us with unremitting honesty one womanlifeimpelled by the dynamics only possible in late 20th century America,emerging from the Roman Catholic traditions of Europe into the politicalupheavals of the 60s. She tells us what happened to her and how she feltabout it, avoiding the pitfalls of psychological interpretation, self-pityand justification. This is how it was for her, driven by inner passion,perhaps not yet fully understood, into a impossible relationship nurturedby both defiance and high ideals, balancing a challenging public career, ahidden family life, and political action around her irresistible love. Iknew she was always very busy; but of her indomitable strength and courageI had only inkling. While we were all wondering about managing a career anda family, she was taking on whole dimensions of additional stresses. Ithink it should be classed as a survival manual for those who demandeverything life can possibly offer.

I laughed and I cried and Iunderstood things about my own mother as the author discovered hers; I wasstirred to question dozens of my own accepted assumptions. The book hasmoved and astonished me. I didn't know my friend could write like this.

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At age twenty-three, Jack London (1876-1916) sold his first story, and within six years he was the highest paid and most widely read writer in America. To account for his success, he created a fiction of himself as the quintessential self-made man. But as Clarice Stasz demonstrates in this absorbing collective biography, London always relied on a circle of women who nurtured him, sheltered him, and fostered his legacy.

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Provocative page turner
It's hard to believe this is the same book as the Bennington person reviewed.This is a clearly written, engaging book that uses sources no one has seen before. The writer shows London's private life with sensitivity, and not with knee-jerk feminism. She also reveals some unseemly behavior by Jack London followers, which may really be the source of Bennington's spiteful comments. The world expert on London, Earle Labor, reviewed this book most positively in a California history journal, and concluded it was "enthralling."I agree.

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This book answers a lot of questions that previous biographies only touch on or omit entirely, namely, what happened to all the women who surrounded London throughout his life and career. Ms. Stasz does a good job filling in the blanks about his mother, wives, and daughters, and brings them to us nearly a hundred years later as three-dimensional people who had great influence on London's life and work. ...

A fresh perspective on London's life!
Clarice Stasz has extended her inquiry into women whose lives are dynastically joined--notably the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers. While this study departs from interrogating the realm of the rich and famous, it sustains the author's interest in the way in which women are influenced by a close connection with fame--in this case, linkage with America's charismatic first millionaire writer.Stasz's skillfully interwoven subjects range from his mother--whose love London persistently sought--to his wives, daughters, female relatives and intellectual associates.She tells a good story, not only about the women themselves but also about Jack London. She also provides fresh material, gleaned from interviews with London's descendants as well as archival material. Jack London's life has yet to be treated in a definitive biography.Stasz's well-researched study of the women in London's life and career offers a significant first step in adjusting the many erroneous or incomplete aspects of London biographical efforts.I strongly recommend this new contribution to London studies.

academic mediocrity from a terrible writer -
Statz excelled at making London a turgid, boring figure in her last book - the unreadbale and hugely maligned American Dreamers. How she manages to continue to publish is beyond this reader and great fan of London. She has attacked other writers on London but it is about time she aplogised to us readers for having to wade through such a boring tome.Post-modern, pseudo-feminist .....Londonmustbe spinning in his grave. Give up Clarice- some teach, some write. You must be able to do one, surely? ... Read more

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Virtually all modern versions of the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table are derived from a single book: Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur (1469), one of the world's most renowned literary works. Yet the author, a fifteenth-century knight, has remained an enigma for centuries. Existing historical records imply that Malory was a criminal—accused of rape, ambush, rustling, and attacks on abbeys—and was imprisoned for most of his life.

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plenty here for the historians and the literary historians, too
This is a book that general audiences can have hours of fun reading and historians, literary historians, Arthurians, and other scholars of all shades can have hours of fun arguing about (and I draw from personal experience). Most impressive is Hardyment's full-scale, detailed look at the context of the world in which Malory lived and wrote, exploring its political pressures, its social conventions, its cultural attitudes, and the ways it sought to authenticate itself. She's also adept at managing the physical evidence, reproducing for us (in word pictures and fine visual additions) the materiality of the world: its houses, its armor, its food, its diseases. She admits where her conclusions are romantic speculations (imagining Malory's amorous intrigues and/or military commitments) but places them within the context of existing evidence. The extensive endnotes and bibliography prove she's done her research and documented her sources. Literary critics might be hesitant to read as much of Malory's own personal attitudes from what's written in the 'Morte Darthur' as Hardyment does--even in the fifteenth century, authors were capable of irony, satire, creating fiction, and constructing narrative personae--and after a few hundred pages, the blur of names and titles makes one long for a glossary of proper names at the end, just to keep the dynasties and loyalties organized in one's mind. But none of this proves an impediment to the fine, clear prose, and in the end, Hardyment's imaginative reconstruction of a man of deep loyalties, strong moral fiber, romantic leanings, and nostalgia for a world where chivalry actually means something is persuasive and appealing and, on its own, offers an explanation for why the 'Morte Darthur' has such a lasting literary life. ... Read more

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Louise Brachmann is an almost-forgotten Romantic figure, a friend of Sidonie von Hardenberg and sister of the major 19th century German writer Novalis. Several of her family and friends died while she was still in her twenties, and she was forced to make a living by writing; Schiller published some of her poems. Unhappy love affairs, poor reception of her work, and uncertainties in daily life eventually led her to drown herself. Her stories, poems and death exemplify German Romanticism. Her sufferings were widely discussed, together with her radical ideas about the role of women in society and her support for Greek independence. This edition collects works that are critical of Enlightenment era views on nature, God, and death. The editor provides a critical assessment of Brachmann's importance within that context of the crisis of cultural values at the beginning of the 19th century, when established views on the family, the state and the power of reason were questioned. ... Read more