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Tyson and Russell, both accomplished song writers in their own right, have taken great care to compile stories from a diverse gathering of song writers, both known and unknown. The chapters, each prefaced by one of the editor's own tales, are divided up by subject, but within each chapter the reader is treated to a wide variety of tales about the birth of songs, the struggles of writing, and the thrill having a song "make it." The mix of writers, from rock to folk to classical, means that there is something for everyone. But the great part about reading through the quotations and stories is discovering a writer you didn't previously know about, and learning something new by reading about their writing process. This is a great book for anyone who has ever written a song, a poem, a book, or even just a report for school. Within the struggle to create music and lyrics are the struggles we all face when create anything of meaning in our lives.

I read the book "And Then I wrote: the Songwriter speks because of the simple reason that I had seen Tom Russell life in my home town before and I was interested what this book was about when I saw it in the library. I had it for 6 weeks and read the whole book of quotes over and over again, and in the end I had the feeling that I could read it ten thousand times more. Yesterday I was at a show of his again, and I talked to him for a while and I got the feeling as if I had understood him much better because of this book.

With literary prowess, Ami Sands Brodoff weaves together a world of unsurpassed complications, that everyone can emphasize
with. A must read of the summer.

Ami Sands Brodoff has created a series of stories which, though disparate in subject matter, share a common theme: connections between people. In each story are quirky characters, some of whom we can relate to easily and others who are more odd than we usually like to admit we can be. These characters feel deeply and live vividly, being born, loving, hating, and dying in technicolour.

Their stories will draw you in and shake you up, and leave you feeling like you've gained something: insight, or perhaps a connection to an emotion you once felt. Read them and weep, or laugh, or just nod in sympathy and understanding.

In the lesbian community, it is uncommon to find a definition of Femme without Butch even though we do, in fact, exist independently. Lesbian community culture it seems is largely semi-androgens and what I have found is that falling in the gaussian tail of feminine identification to be something of a liability. What I am discovering now however is that it feels less important to fit myself into my communities preconception of behavior and presentation, additionally, I am feeling considerably less apologetic about myself.

This is the first account that I've read that most correctly describes my most consistent feelings and behaviors. It has been a greatly beneficial normalization experience for me to have an account of other individuals who feel and behave similarly, particularly since there are only a very few with which I have had contact.

I am thrilled whenever i read a book about femmes that shows a variety of femmes being strong and proud of who they are. I think everyone who loves femmes, is femme, or is curious about femmes should read this book, and add it to their small, but surely growing, collection of femme books. That said, as high femme in my early thirties, i felt a little disconnected from the femmes in this book. I guess it's too much to hope for that i will find something written about femmes that accurately reflects my life and history and choices, but i keep hoping. As it is, I fall somewhere between Femme Mystique and Brazen Femme, a little young for the former, a little old, perhaps, for the latter. My femme friends who are also in their 30's and i have discusssed whether or not we are just jealous of femmes who are coming out now, as queer and femme all at once, whereas we mostly came out as queer and learned about femme later... that could be. In any case, it is an amazing thing for young femmes to have a community of femmes to come out into, and this book is a part of that brilliant, powerful community.

i have to give it 5 stars, even tho i didn't quite connect with some of the writing... i'm gonna keep re-readng this, i'm sure i'll find something new to like every time.

I wondered about this one, as it seemed another Doc Savage clone. Boy was I glad to see that Captain Hazzard's compassion to Savage is slim. His Fab Five have many different occupations, Hazzard uses telepathy (the only long shot in the book, and not too far out of the ballpark!), no skyscraper, uses a gun, etc. I like the villain as well, reminding me of Fu Manchu and his daughter. As there are two Captain Hazzard books out, I trust that we will see others. Reviving a character that didn't make it in the pulp magazines and making him pure pulp is genius! Quoth the Raven...

Tibetan monasteries, scientifically reanimated zombie soldiers, Asian masterminds, a hidden fortress in the Colorado Rockies, femme fatales... And the first original novel of the multi-talented Captain Hazzard and his five aides (shades of Doc Savage) in almost 70 years. Nonstop pulp action from start to finish, CAPTAIN HAZZARD: THE CITADEL OF FEAR is a worthy follow-up to the original pulp novel, PYTHON MEN OF THE LOST CITY, and a welcome herald of future HAZZARD novels to come. Recommended!

The pastoral nature of this novel is such a disguise for it ends with the toughest, grittiest and most challenging ending I have ever read (stronger than Kafka's 'The Trial', or Christopher Priest's 'The Separation'). As a human being facing what we all face this ending is truly awful.

But what is Hudson telling us in this novel? Is it a Victorian approach to telling things that are otherwise inexpressible - that affection is not enough? That real love with all its manifestations must be honoured, because without it there is only death?

Here I find a challenge to psychoanalysis and all the techniques of psychology: 'I only discovered, what others have discovered before me, that the practice of introspection has a corrosive effect on the mind, which only serves to aggravate the malady it is intended to cure.' (If only I could stop introspection ......!) ) [page 279 Dutton edition of 1917]

But here the common man, Smith, plunged into this affectionate pastoral society, bemoans what he has just learned - that the young woman he loves can never love him as he wishes - 'I wish that I had never made that fatal discovery, that I might have continued still hoping and dreaming, and wearing out my heart with striving after the impossible, since any fate would have been preferable to the blank desolation which now confronted me.' [page 303-304 of the same edition]

I wonder what woman of Hudson's acquaintance he had to put aside with such enormous regret that he expressed these words!

Search this book out. Absorb its gentle fantasy and hold tight for a rough ending.

Other recommendations:
The Separation - Christopher Priest
The Trial - Franz Kafka
The Shepherd's Life - W H Hudson
Green Mansions - W H Hudson

JB Priestly wrote a book about time ('Man and Time') and in it he referred to a WH Hudson novel called 'A Crystal Age'. His couple of paragraphs about 'A Crystal Age' stimulated my interest but nowhere could I find the novel he referred to. However, I did find 'Green Mansions' and I have read it several times. It is a beautiful novel with an undertone of darkness (is death the darkness that we all live with during the beauty of life?). Perhaps 'Green Mansions' disappointed me a little after triggering my romantic nerve. I did, however, keep exploring the writings of WH Hudson - 'Long Ago and Far Away', 'The Purple Land', 'Idle Days in Patagonia' and the wonderful 'A Shepherd's Life'.

I have just finished reading 'A Crystal Age' at last. I concur with JB Priestley's assessment. 'A Crystal Age' is worth the effort of pursuing - it is a surprising first-person utopian novel in which Hudson's love of nature does not render him oblivious to the fact that there are downsides in all worlds - all imaginable worlds. Just like the dark shadows in 'Green Mansions'. The end of 'A Crystal Age' is so surprising - I believe very few readers would see what is coming - I certainly didn't as I rushed on towards it. There is a certain illogic to the ending, but there is also something that haunts me continuously.

'A Crystal Age' is a stronger less romantic novel than 'Green Mansions', but it is also exceptional for many reasons. I don't hesitate in recommending 'Green Mansions' but I also urge readers to pursue 'A Crystal Age'.

Besides the great art within, the writing is fantastic. Lee Server always keeps it interesting and doesn't linger on a point too long. He provides a good overview of the pulps: what they are, how they formed, how they stayed alive, and how they died. He provides some bios of the major authors (whether or not they are collectable) and editors. And provides great information on the various genres.
If you're interested in pulps at all, i would recommend this as a great starting point before delving into this fascinating world.

Meticulously researched and stylishly written. If you have any interest in the origins of science fiction, westerns, horror, terror, adventure stories or romance you should read this book. H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tennessee Williams, L. Ron Hubbard, Dashiell Hammet, and countless others got their start in the pulps. The pulps also spawned such famous characters as the Shadow, Conan, Buck Rogers, Tarzan, Doc Savage and many more. Incredible illustrations and flowing prose. A gem.

This is a great and informative cookbook that talks about a number of seafood species and the various issues surrounding them. It's really helpful info for anyone concerned about the seafood we eat and where it comes from. There's also some great recipes, including one from Sarah McLachlan.

The Living Ocean Society is a non-profit organization based in Sointula, British Columbia, Canada, and is committed to the preservation of marine biological diversity and the creation of sustainable fisheries. Fish For Thought: An Eco-Cookbook is both a fund raising project for the society and a volume of delicious recipes showcasing an enormous diversity of edible, sea-borne delectables for the dining table that only responsible fishing practices will enable us to enjoy for generations to come. From Leslie Langvist's Clam Fritters; Bradley Cleases's Grilled Wild Sockeye Salmon; and The Cameron Family's Halibut Stew; to Kim Stockwood's Cod au Gratin; Gordie Sampson's Shrimp Curry; and Sooke Harbour House's Crab Consomme, Fish For Thought: An Eco-Cookbook is a superbly presented and enthusiastically recommended recipe collection enhanced with thumbnail biographical descriptions of the contributors and a profusion of black-and-white illustrations.

refurbishing of the Casino, Alberta Campitelli's discussion of designs for the short-lived Museo di Gabii, the villas's other antiquities museum, as well as b/w and color photography. Making A Prince's Museum is informative, engaging reading and highly recommended to students of architecture and the history of 18th Century museum development.

A highly recommended, benchmark contribution to academic and literary reference collections, French Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror And Pulp Fiction is very nicely enhanced throughout with numerous illustrations.

I couldn't put it down

Hot Pulp! features 7 Complete Spicy Stories, a section of photographic art studies and a beautiful section of gorgeous pulp covers, all from such Spicy magazines as Tattle Tales, French Capers, La Paree, Saucy Stories, Bedtime Stories, Stage and Screen Stories and Gay Parisienne! All from the fabulous 1930s, the era when pulps were golden.

Great book describing how a disgrutled german youth goes from being a grumbler to a bomb thrower. he goes from vandalizing expensive cars yelling "walk to work" to bombing police stations. well written, first person account interview style. it drives me nuts it's so hard to find. last time i interlibrary loaned it it came from ten states away. anyone who knows which way the wind blows needs to read this book.

Perhaps one of the most important nonfiction books of the Cold War, "How It All Began" is the rare story from the terrorist's unapologetic point of view.

The June 2nd Movement that Michael Baumann took part in and writes about was a product of its times; its members were bored students and hippies, tired of the paranoia of a culture focused solely on not being communist. In 1969, news of American college rebellions and "love-ins" flowed into Germany and ignited a youth culture. At the same time, news of wars and global chaos ignited youth activism. The young Germans who objected to the Vietnam war did so as strongly as their counterparts in the States--though, of course, to even lesser effect.

Baumann writes that the resulting frustration made it easy to protest a little more strongly against the status quo, to take more aggressive actions. Vandalism here, arson there--and frighteningly soon, loose groups became tight-knit commando cells; students like Baumann became specialists in bomb-building, napalm, and burglary. The West German government was only too happy to match the terrorist actions with raids, secret police tactics, beatings, and torture.

Who was right? No one, of course; in a society where people have learned to respond to violence with more violence, then questions of motive and justification soon fall by the wayside. The motto of Baumann's movement, "destroy what destroys you," perfectly characterizes the irony of the situation, describing a viscous circle that entraps all of the combatants.

The idea that Baumann would eventually walk away from all this, that he could found more promise in love than in hate, is the most remarkable part of the book. It's not a novel idea, of course, except that it's real remorse, real willingness towards good coming from a mire of confused evil. All of this actually happened. So cliche or not, I was glad to rediscover that good can win, that people can change--and I was glad to find this book.

I won't debate whether this book is relevant to today. Personally, I think it is.

Note: Baumann was arrested in London in 1981. There is no record of him anywhere after that date. He effectively disappeared.