by Jane Manaster | Aug 6, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Cooking, Food & Drinks, Crafts & Hobbies
I nearly lost Everyday Bento. A six-year-old happened upon it lying on my desk and whisked it away. I found her turning the pages slowly, almost salivating at the favorite treats she found. Bentos are a Japanese idea – small reusable boxes filled with single...
by Site Owner | Jun 3, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, Travel
By Andrew Robinson Thames & Hudson, $24.95, 248 pages When a historian writing with considerable experience and expertise shows exasperation, inevitably readers must be bewildered. The succession of chapters in India: A Short History, reaching from the fourth...
by Site Owner | May 29, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
By Patrick Farenga HoltGWS LLC, $9.99, 138 pages This is a disquieting book, compelling but troubling. It must be a commemorative tribute to John Holt who died in 1985, which will be 30 years ago in 2015. A few fairly minor adjustments would be beneficial. First, many...
by Site Owner | May 16, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, History
By David Van Reybrouck ECCO, $29.99, 639 pages In 1885, King Leopold ll of Belgian took as his personal possession territory that has become the present-day Democratic Republic of Congo. Although he never set foot in Africa, his primary functionary Henry Morton...
by Site Owner | May 9, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
By Adrian Fort St. Martin’s Press, $15.99, 400 pages Just who was Nancy Astor? Despite three-hundred-and eighty detailed pages by past-master Adrian Fort, we are baffled and bewildered. Born Nancy Langhorne in Virginia in 1879, she was a divorcee barely out of...