by Seniye Groff | Feb 15, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Cooking, Food & Drinks, Travel
Cioletti passion for booze is evident in The Drinkable Globe. It appears that Cioletti left no stone unturned in his detailed anthology of global alcohol. History lessons, fun facts, and personal favorites are littered throughout the book. Cioletti is the...
by Seniye Groff | Dec 29, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Travel
The mystical power of the Camino de Santiago is captured in a provocative way by Prince in this part-travel, part-leadership lessons book. Between jobs Prince decides to do the 500-mile pilgrimage in northern Spain. Prince has tied his lessons around the seven...
by Megan McIntyre | Dec 7, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, Science & Technology, Travel, Tweens
Readers should know that this book is thorough and well written and while categorized as young adult audience, would be enjoyed by readers of many ages. The author posits that life = locomotion, starting with walking and how we then leveraged our bipedalism to make...
by Seniye Groff | Nov 14, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Cooking, Food & Drinks, NW Author, NW Setting, Travel
Any wine enthusiast, especially one interested in the Willamette Valley, will pour over Willamette Valley Wineries by Barbara Smith Randall. Painstaking research clearly went into this book. Each page is littered with photos coupled with stories, and facts that...
by Don Messerschmidt | Nov 8, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, Nautical, Science & Technology, Travel
I read this well-written, fast-paced historical documentary in (almost) one sitting, with (near the end) Tchaikovsky’s great Fifth Symphony surging along in the background (on Oregon Public Radio) towards its dramatic conclusion. Both the Russian expedition and...
by Mary-Lynne Monroe | May 10, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Featured, Religion, Sponsored, Travel
Having grown up in a Catholic family, discussions often focused on a wide variety and number of appearances by Mary. Due to those family talks, I recall the first time the visions at Medjugorje rippled out to public recognition. Judith T. Lambert’s slender volume, A...