by Sarah Hutchins | Sep 5, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Books About Books, Education, Parenting & Families, Poetry
Several books on the market instruct would-be poets how to write poems into their types – haiku, sonnet, ballad, limerick, and more. Other tomes deconstruct what makes classic poems great – the symbolism, metaphors, and so on. Matthew Zapruder, an...
by Sarah Hutchins | Aug 29, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Books About Books, Philosophy
Light glimmers in the shadows. The New Testament, Augustine, Boethius, Beowulf, The Letters of Abelard and Heloise, The Song of Roland, epic adventures of knights written by Chrétien de Troyes, Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Dante’s Divine Comedy,...
by Sarah Hutchins | Aug 21, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, History, NW Setting, Reference
Who was the first Chinese-American woman to fly for the American military? Where did the Portland street names Terwilliger and Lovejoy originate? When did Oregon women gain the right to vote? These answers and more were uncovered by Portland State University Professor...
by Sarah Hutchins | Aug 7, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography, Home & Garden
“I’m too tall. I’m too short. I’m too fat. I’m too thin. I’m left-handed.” All too often we utter these and similar phrases to excuse ourselves when our heads bump against light fixtures, our inability to reach tall shelves, our struggle to find...
by Sarah Hutchins | Jun 27, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, True Crime
Murder captivates the imagination. What makes someone kill? Is it genetic? Are homicidal tendencies a result of a dysfunctional childhood or a manifestation of our narcissistic culture? Questions outnumber the answers, and there are many different methods of gaining...