by Don Messerschmidt | Jan 23, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Books About Books, Travel
Like a box of Swiss chocolates, this book is filled with rich, quality bonbons for readers, writers and (otherwise) fans of Switzerland. The Gilded Chalet: Off-piste in Literary Switzerland is a tour de force of good writing, with insightful historical and literary...
by Sarah Hutchins | Jan 11, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography, Biographies & Memoirs, Books About Books
Rainer Maria Rilke’s inspirational prose and poetry is read aloud in Western yoga classes as teachers urge their students to find better ways of being not only on the mat but also in their day-to-day life. Who is the man behind the verse? What made him someone worthy...
by Katie Richards | Dec 13, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Books About Books
The Real Peter Pan is a sort of group biography, encompassing the lives of J. M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, and the five Llewelyn-Davies boys who inspired his work in this and other plays. The focus of the text is from the meeting of Barrie with the older boys...
by Katie Richards | Jul 8, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Books About Books, History
[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Oxford University Press Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Kindle Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] Harmful and Undesirable: Book Censorship in Nazi Germany is a small text, with the body of...
by Axie Barclay | May 18, 2016 | Anthologies, Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Books About Books, Classics, General Fiction, Short Stories
[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, Kindle, Audiobook, Audible Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] Reader, I married him. Is there a more evocative phrase in...
by Whitney Morton Woodcock | Apr 19, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Books About Books, Comics & Graphic Novels, History, War & Military
[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Arcade Publishing Formats: Hardcover, eBook Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon[/alert] James Joyce is a poet and novelist (one of the foremost writers from a country renowned for its famous writers) who reinvented...
