by Ashley McCall | May 18, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, NW Setting, Portland Publishers, Sponsored
Trout Run, the second novel in Paul Dage’s Eddy Trout trilogy, continues his main character’s story where the first novel, Trout Kill, left off. Without spoiling too much of the plot of that novel, it centers around a man, Eddy Trout, age 47. He lives in Milo, Oregon...
by Stephen Febick | Feb 16, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, History, Portland Publishers, Sponsored
In 1920, in the isolated Steens Mountain area of southeastern Oregon, a man named Ralph Grant buried his mother Martha K. L. Grant in the cold February ground. There were no funeral homes in the dense wilderness of the region during the time, and that was “even if one...
by Whitney Morton Woodcock | Feb 8, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Education, Parenting & Families, Sponsored
Kysa Kelleher is not who you would expect to write a parenting guide. She doesn’t have lots of letters after her name that indicate advanced degrees in psychology or child development, although she does have a degree in nutrition. She’s not Jo Frost the Supernanny,...
by Megan McIntyre | Jan 19, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Poetry, Sponsored
Pamela Goodwin, author and photographer of this poetry collection, states the purpose of her book is “to offer ideas that are thoughtful and that resonate in their portrayal. The photographs are for enjoyment.” After perusing her work, I would agree. I found many of...
by Mary-Lynne Monroe | Dec 28, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller, Sponsored
Philip Graubart’s new book, Silwan, tumbles the reader into the midst of the complex world of modern Israel with its myriad Palestinian versus Israeli issues. Judah Loeb is a somewhat sad, middle-aged investigative reporter who views his life as less than it could be,...