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Rock On: An Office Power Ballad
Dan Kennedy
Algonquin Books, 2008
Greatest Book!
Hey this is one funny book! Buy it read it laugh a lot. I loved it and I know next to nothing about music just about nothing about working in an office..and nothing about being a guy. BUT I loved it. Very funny. Very smart writer. !
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Off the Deep End
W. Hodding Carter
Algonquin Books, 2008
excellent and inspiring
When I ordered this book, I was expecting sort of a literary reflection on swimming, discussing the experience of endless laps in ponderous prose. Of course, I forgot my experience of champion swimmers (driven, sometimes eccentric, sometimes manic, but not usually ...
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If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska
Heather Lende
Algonquin Books, 2006
Subtitled "News from Small-Town Alaska"
Heather Lende writes the social column and obituaries for the small town paper in Haines, Alaska. You get to feel you know all of the residents there through her eyes and the columns she tells about that she has written. A book well worth reading. It will show you ...
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Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder
Richard Louv
Algonquin Books, 2008
TEN Star Great book!!!!
Cannot recommend this book enough whether you live in a city, suburb or rural area.
Nature is all around you as the book says, and sadly to many children have no idea what trees are in their neighborhood, or what that flower called a dandelion is growing thru the ...
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Gossip of the Starlings
Nina de Gramont
Algonquin Books, 2008
A good read
This book earns the many good reviews it has received. Its a well crafted and beautifully written tragedy about an insular group of self destructive prepsters during the Reagan years, containing far deeper observations and themes than "chick lit." This is a truly ...
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Water for Elephants: A Novel
Sara Gruen
Algonquin Books, 2007
Still thinking about this book after more...
...than a year after I read it. What a sweet story. I highly recommend this book.
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Enslaved by Ducks
Bob Tarte
Algonquin Books, 2004
Great Book
Enslaved by ducks is hilarious. I highly recommend it to anyone who has ever had (or wants) a lot of pets. It is a quick read and I found myself laughing out loud many times with others wondering what was so funny. Bob Tarte certainly captures the essence of the ...
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Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year
Esmé Raji Codell
Algonquin Books, 2001
Wonderful Read
This book is a great book for anyone looking at the teaching profession. I used it in an education introduction class and it is very insightful as well as just a great read. This is a real life personal experience in the first year of teaching for Esme, and shows the ...
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Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial
Alison Bass
Algonquin Books, 2008
Outstanding Exposé
Alison Bass brings all the players to life, both the good and the bad, in this well documented story behind the NY Attorney General's legal action against GSK. This book is in the tradition of Erin Brokavich or A Civil Action; it reads like a novel, like a thriller in ...
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Mudbound
Hillary Jordan
Algonquin Books, 2008
Mudbound--Clear Vision of MS Delta
Mudbound was a risky read for me. As a life-long Mississippian, I wondered how an "outsider" could come in and tell a story that would ring true to the many intricacies of race relations in a state that still struggles with the some of the most basic issues.
I ...
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Southern Belly: The Ultimate Food Lover's Companion to the South
John T. Edge
Algonquin Books, 2007
John T. Edge, "the Faulkner of Southern food" (the Miami Herald ), reveals a South hidden in plain sight, where restaurants boast family pedigrees and serve supremely local specialties found nowhere else. From backdoor home kitchens to cinder-block cafés, he introduces you to cooks who have been standing tall by the stove since Eisenhower was in ...
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Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
Joan Druett
Algonquin Books, 2007
Gripping historical tale of endurance and survival against all odds
There are not enough stars to show how much I enjoyed this enthralling story of survival in an extremely hostile environment. Historian Joan Druett, drawing from journals kept by the shipwrecked crew throughout their ordeal and later accounts of the survivors, ...
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Every Last Cuckoo: A Novel
Kate Maloy
Algonquin Books, 2008
Cookoo
Fabulous book. I loved it from beginning to end. The author offers insight into dealing with aging, death, illness and the story is told with compassion and hope. Her interaction with the assorted teens and ragtag "boarders" in her life shows her humor and ...
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The Lady in the Palazzo: At Home in Umbria
Marlena de Blasi
Algonquin Books, 2006
IF YOU'RE GOING TO UMBRIA YOU MUST READ THIS BOOK
What a wonderful book. What a wonderful lady. I read this book the month before my trip to Umbria this Spring and I've recommended it to my entire family and to all of my friends. Everyone I know who has read it has fallen in love with Orvieto! Orvieto is a fabulous ...
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An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England: A Novel
Brock Clarke
Algonquin Books, 2007
A painful Joy to read
No two people I know laughed in the same places. Yet, we all laughed, here.
Others will have to explain why. I can't. In part, I'd suggest this was fine, pathetic human characterization, the likes of Bellow's Henderson (The Rain King)and Nabokov's nanny ("Speak ...
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