by Emily York | Sep 27, 2016 | Columns, Featured, The Reader's Perspective
Breaking the Mold: Finding Our Own Voice By Emily York It doesn’t matter whether you went to public school, private school, or even if you were homeschooled, nearly every American learned the “5 paragraph” method for writing an essay. Paragraph 1 (Introduction): Lead...
by Paul Vicary | Aug 30, 2016 | Columns, Featured, The Reader's Perspective
In Defense of the Review By Paul Vicary The value of the product of the book review process is evidenced by the extraordinary effort required in balancing the efforts involved in writing a review – paying close attention to the work itself, of course, but also...
by michaeld | Apr 25, 2013 | Columns, The Reader's Perspective
by Ryder W. Miller It is interesting to speculate about what John Steinbeck, whose birth centennial was in 2002, and Ernest Hemingway, who would be 107 this year, would have thought about the big space age show – the enormous advances in science related to our...
by Site Owner | Apr 18, 2012 | The Reader's Perspective
How to be a Cookbook Reviewer by George Erdosh New cookbooks come by the bushels. If there is demand for them, there is also a supply. So many people are glued to the food channel you would think there is a cooking frenzy in America, yet for most of those viewers this...
by Site Owner | Nov 14, 2011 | The Reader's Perspective
by Katie Flanagan The other day I came across a relic from my childhood: a picture book version of the Disney movie Cinderella. This was my favorite movie as a preschooler, and I had several picture books retelling it. Since I was a book lover from the day I was born,...
