Tag Archives: Shelf Awareness
Shelf Awareness for Readers Review: The Telling Room, by Michael Paterniti
My review for Michael Paterniti’s The Telling Room is posted here. It’s always good to look at other reactions: The New York Times review, while positive, acknowleged its overwrough quality, comparing it to those little handwritten descriptions pinned to cheeses … Continue reading
This review* for Shelf Awareness for Readers was challenging to write, both for the need to capture complex ideas in 250 words and for required refresher on the many interpretations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It is widely accepted that the core of … Continue reading
Review: Douglas Hofstadter, Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
My review of Doug Hofstadters new book, Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking ran in today’s Shelf Awareness. It is also copied below in its entirety. Hofstadter’s first book, Godel, Escher, Bach, was essential reading … Continue reading
Poetry Review: Palace of Contemplating Departures by Brynn Saito
My review of Brynn Saito’s The Palace of Contemplating Departure (Red Hen Press, 2013) ran in today’s Shelf Awareness for Readers (dedicated poetry issue; it is, after all, Poetry Month). I loved this collection. Saito is wonderful with imagery and lets … Continue reading
Book Review: Letters to a Young Scientist by Edward O. Wilson
Shelf Awareness for Readers is doing a dedicated poetry issue in which another review of mine will be published – a wonderful debut (and prize-winning) collection by Brynn Saito called The Palace of Contemplating Departure. As a result, there will be … Continue reading
The Second Word 