by Site Owner | Feb 20, 2010 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
By Aska Mochizuki Vintage, $18.95, 231 pages Aska Mochizuki has crafted a dizzying tale of forbidden love in Spinning Tropics, a lush, lusty debut novel that is part Vietnamese travelogue, part drama, and wholly entertaining. Translated from its original Japanese for...
by Site Owner | Feb 6, 2010 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Cooking, Food & Drinks
By Barbara Lynch Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $35.00, 335 pages The flavors of both South Boston and Italy come to life in Barbara Lynch’s first cookbook, Stir: Mixing It Up In The Italian Tradition. Lynch, a James Beard Award-winning chef, has crafted a book that...
by Site Owner | Jan 23, 2010 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Reference
By Harold Davis Wiley, $29.99, 240 pages “How close can you go? That is the macro question.” Digital photography is a relatively new medium, having exploded in popularity over the past ten years as digital cameras have plummeted in price while their...
by Site Owner | Dec 15, 2009 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Sports & Recreation
By Cameron Smith, PhD and John F. Haslett Wiley, $19.99, 462 pages The “For Dummies” series of books has been a wildly successful franchise since its debut in the early 90s. The books are topical, step-by-step instructional guides geared towards the layperson that...
by Site Owner | Nov 18, 2009 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
By Anna Jane Grossman Abrams Image, $15.95, 191 pages “Fads come and go,” writes Anna Jane Grossman, “but something begins to seem obsolete when it is no longer in use, either because it has been supplanted by something that’s perceived as...
