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WOW! This is the college English Department through the ivy-covered back door!
In the years following the publication of his first book, the life of English professor E. Robert Pendleton has been one of public pretense and private desperation as each of his subsequent manuscripts is rejected.
Enter Adi Wiltshire who nurses Pendleton following his liquor-and-pill suicide attempt. While snooping through Pendleton's large house, dark and cold from a power outage, Adi stumbles upon unopened crates filled with Pendleton's self-published novel and tears open a hornet's nest of cold-case crimes, campus and small town intrique, literary jealousy and suspicion.
The isolation of academia, life in a small and dying town, years and layers of frustrated personal and professional ambition, unrealized dreams - Collins has us look at it all and asks us about the costs.
I read until my eyes ached, rested a bit and went back to finish this amazing book. Michael Collins lays the American lifestyle out there for our examination in a "can't put it down" tale that most of us can relate to.
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With Hilou's instructions, my kitchen has become heavenly with the aromas of cinnamon, fresh tomatos and lemons, garlic, za'tar, rose water and Arabic coffee. Anissa Hilou's cookbook, "Lebanese Cuisine" has long been my favorite and most frequently used cookbook. NOW, I am expanding my kitchen "travels" with "Mediterranean Street Food: Stories, Soups, Snacks, Sandwiches, Barbecues, Sweets and More from Europe, North Africa and the Middle East". This is healthy eating at it's most enjoyable. Shopping for the ingredients is fun, the preparation time and cooking is fulfilling/interesting - people BEG to be invited for dinner! And the leftovers make my fellow office inmates drool. Wonderful book! A wonderful gift for anyone who enjoys the pleasures of fresh food prepared at home.
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Death of a Writer by Michael Collins
NancyJar, May 19, 2007
WOW! This is the college English Department through the ivy-covered back door!In the years following the publication of his first book, the life of English professor E. Robert Pendleton has been one of public pretense and private desperation as each of his subsequent manuscripts is rejected.
Enter Adi Wiltshire who nurses Pendleton following his liquor-and-pill suicide attempt. While snooping through Pendleton's large house, dark and cold from a power outage, Adi stumbles upon unopened crates filled with Pendleton's self-published novel and tears open a hornet's nest of cold-case crimes, campus and small town intrique, literary jealousy and suspicion.
The isolation of academia, life in a small and dying town, years and layers of frustrated personal and professional ambition, unrealized dreams - Collins has us look at it all and asks us about the costs.
I read until my eyes ached, rested a bit and went back to finish this amazing book. Michael Collins lays the American lifestyle out there for our examination in a "can't put it down" tale that most of us can relate to.
(2 of 4 readers found this comment helpful)
Mediterranean Street Food: Stories, Soups, Snacks, Sandwiches, Barbecues, Sweets, and More from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East by Anissa Helou
NancyJar, April 24, 2007
With Hilou's instructions, my kitchen has become heavenly with the aromas of cinnamon, fresh tomatos and lemons, garlic, za'tar, rose water and Arabic coffee. Anissa Hilou's cookbook, "Lebanese Cuisine" has long been my favorite and most frequently used cookbook. NOW, I am expanding my kitchen "travels" with "Mediterranean Street Food: Stories, Soups, Snacks, Sandwiches, Barbecues, Sweets and More from Europe, North Africa and the Middle East". This is healthy eating at it's most enjoyable. Shopping for the ingredients is fun, the preparation time and cooking is fulfilling/interesting - people BEG to be invited for dinner! And the leftovers make my fellow office inmates drool. Wonderful book! A wonderful gift for anyone who enjoys the pleasures of fresh food prepared at home.(6 of 10 readers found this comment helpful)
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NancyJar, April 19, 2007
Green for Powells; green for our beautiful west coast ecosystem; green for our earth's future. Green is the color of good sense and a sensible future. Powells and the big green "P" are in the lead!!!! Yay Powells!!(2 of 3 readers found this comment helpful)