Georgia Books

This book is the BOMB! I was introduced to this book 1997 and I have purchase at least 10 copies. Why 10 copies, you ask, because everytime I show my book to someone they take it. So, I have learned my lesson to direct ladies and gentlemens to purchase their own copy. I have the hardback and paperback but the paperback is missing so vital information. Buy hardback with all the information you need. I think every women should be given this book at the age of 18 to help them on the road to becoming a "Real Woman".

I feel this book should be every women's self-esteem Bible. I read it over and over just for some refreshening.

I read the hard cover about 3 years ago, so after reading it I gave it to my wife. Boy what a change it has made in my life and my wife's life. We have learned to communicate instaed of shout at one another. I've tried to be more passionate and loving with my wife since I've red this book. It has opened my eyes to how valuable communication is in a loving relationship. Until I read this bnook I always just let things in my relationship work themselves out. I now know that many of my problems could have been avoided if I had only communictaed in an open, honest and loving way. Thanks to Ella Patterson and her will to write a book like this, I am now a happier man, husband and father. I recommend this book to all couples. It's not just a book for women it's for men too. I don't know Ella personally, but If she ever reads this review I just want to say Thanks to her for helping to save my marriage. I am a better man because of her.

I ordered my copy of With Malice Toward Some: Very Short Stories for Very Busy People one day when I was looking through the Savage Press website. The cover design struck my fancy, as well as the tag line which said, "These stories will make you smirk and snicker . . ." I realized that while I may have smirked recently, I hadn't snickered in awhile, so I ordered. Well, all I can say is that Georgia Post delivered on her promise. I chuckled. I snickered. I smirked. I then passed the book to my colleague who chuckled, snickered, and smirked as well. There are 47 quirky sort stories of less than two pages each and most times my response to the story was AHA! or HA! This is a book that should be read and passed on to someone else. Better yet, buy one to keep and one to loan out. Maybe even a few as gifts for special friends.

Claiming to be "a 76-year old woman with a 40-year old woman struggling to come out," this author's obviously sharp and lively wit, as well as her imagination, is remarkable at any age.

Georgia Post has created a unique book of short (average length of each is a page and a half) stories, each with a surprising ending.

At the beginning of "With Malice Toward Some", Ms. Post impishly lets it be known that one of the stories is actually true, leaving the reader to wonder which it could be, in addition to the detective-like mentality one can also feel while reading each intriguing story, imagining where the plot will lead.

Cleverly done, Ms. Post! I would love to read more.

"With Malice Toward Some" by Georgia Z Post is a most unusual book of short stories. There are 47 short stories in this book all of which are amazing. I thoroughly enjoyed each story. The author has amazing writing skill for humorous stories and she presents them well.

I came across this book at a book signing at the Tarpon Springs, Florida Library. The signing was put on by the writing group which meets at the Library one day a week.

I was able to meet the author and purchase her book. She has an amazing personality and it shows in her stories. This book is one that should be left on a coffee table in your home to pick up at random and enjoy. I feel it should also be placed in the waiting rooms of doctors offices.

"With Malice Toward Some" by Georgia Z Post is a great book and I highly recommend it.

"Yesterday in the Hills" provides in-depth details about the daily lives of individual poor North Georgia farmers and their families in the early twentieth century. The details are given in the form of stories about indiviual lives and events. Humor, courting, medical practices, farming, family life, poverty, loafing, hunting, gardening, childhood games, etc., are all described in detail. The book reads easily and the stories leave a lasting impression. A very good read.

"Yesterday In The Hills" is the story of the Ballground/Canton/North Georgia hill country settlements. It tells a story of people too poor to live and too proud to give up. I'm descended from these people, and I'm very proud of my roots. I'm white, yes. But these stories, anecdotes, and tall tales need to be preserved.

This is before the depression. This is making a living before the "new deal." This is life before the urbanization of America. This is the story of when people lived on and off their land. This is the story of men and women who settled the land and found it good. This is the story of Georgia, and all the lands where work, industry, faithfulness, and hope were the by-words.

Buy this book. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll remember when Momma's fried chicken, and pastor's sermon would keep you awake for days. But most of all, you'll remember a time passed, when things seemed simpler and the world was larger. . .but most of all when community meant just that. . .read THIS BOOK

These stories are the kinds of stories we should all be passing down in our families and communities. Through such stories young people find out who they are. The people in long ago Ballground, Georgia were poor, but in many ways they were richer than most of us now. Their daily lives had texture and provided a closer walk with the natural world. Just to survive required hard work, cooperation, and wisdom. Humor was a nice extra too and these stories have that extra in abundance. My mother's family lived right on the outskirts of Ballground, and many of her stories could fit right in this book. This is a great read!

Sure. I'll admit it. This review is predjudice because Roy Wilder, Jr. is my uncle. But in all honesty, I do enjoy "You All Spoken Here" and find it very resourceful in my southern lit. classes. Uncle Roy went to alot of work researching southern sayings and such, and enjoyed (almost) every minute of it. Countless fellow writers (including Charles Frasier, who owns a copy and who also wrote a book called "Cold Mountain"- maybe you've heard of it?) credit Roy with writing one of the most well researched, insightful and just plain fun to read books out there! All of his time and efforts paid off, because this book is definately worth the $15 they're charging you. So go buy it!

I found this book about 10 years ago and have returned to browse through my dog-eared copy many times since. Wilder has a wonderful collection of sayings and lore here, and I never put down the book without thinking "I'm going to remember a couple more of those expressions and start using them." But be warned, the chapters and chapter titles seem to be mostly for decoration. They only loosely describe the rambling contents of each section. There is no index (at least in my edition), so relocating a particular express (now what was it he said about hot weather?) is a challenge. I almost always get distracted before I can find what I'm looking for. But I greatly enjoy what I find along the way.

I bought this book years ago and have bought many others like it since. But of all the southern expressions books I have, YOU ALL SPOKEN HERE remains my favorite. The sayings all by themselves are great, but the book is also sprinkled with other amusing tidbit treasures of life in the South. If you enjoy Southern humor, DON'T MISS THIS BOOK!! And Mr. Wilder, if you're reading this... Please Write Volume Two Soon!!! I'll be the first in line to buy it!

This book is very special to me because a lot of it is about my family and the local area where they came from. The picture on the front is of my Granddaddy's grocery store, Nick's Grocery, and the woman in the story, Ms. Nick, is my grandma. All the stories brought back fond memories of my childhood. I'm taking my copy home to the Hudson-Jones reunion this summer to have Georgia autograph it. Enjoy!

Georgia Green Stamper is a versatile writer who can succeed at humor, nostalgia, social commentary, and gentle satire. The columns and essays in this collection cover events in Kentucky from the colonial period through the day before yesterday. In her stories, a grandfather does his Christmas shopping in the local village after the tobacco is sold and he has a little cash money and a modern wife finds herself lost and disoriented in the overabundant material diversity of a modern mega-store, a high school basketball coach integrates a rural team peacefully, farmers hold their places together with baling wire, grandchildren test the limits of their courage, and a young girl learns how to be an adult woman with gentle guidance from a village of grandparents, parents, teachers, and friends. Georgia laughs with them and cries with them. Not many writers can do both.

Georgia Green Stamper has been compared to Bailey White and praised by the likes of Silas House and Leatha Kendrick. That should tell you something about her before you even pick up her wonderful book of essays that so powerfully evoke a simpler time and place. But when you open that book and start to read her essays you will be taken in by the rhythm and cadence of her language. You will feel like you have stepped back in time and you will laugh at some of the essays and no doubt wipe a few tears with others. This is storytelling at its best. Her voice wisely and triumphantly celebrates a people who are sometimes overlooked because of their poverty and ranking as common folk. But there is much that we can learn from these people and Georgia eloquently brings this to light in her essays.

Georgia's essays speak to the common threads that bind us, the simple moments in life that make us smile or muse or laugh or cry. I cried from start to finish during the essay Shan's Shoes that took me back to the emotions of September 11th, and I laughed out loud at the essay about babysitting the author's two-year-old grandson.

Some of the essays offer up bits of wisdom, others are simply a bridge to memories we store from the passages of our own lives. In either case, her observations are gently woven into stories that read as if the author herself was sitting across the table, sharing her thoughts over a cup of tea.

This book belongs on every night stand in America. (I just bought a second copy for the guest room, and I think I'll insert a bookmark for guidance, as soon as I can decide which of my favorites deserve that prize.)

"You Can Go Anywhere From Here" has earned a spot on my perfect-for-almost-everyone gift list, and I definitely will be watching Amazon for more books by this author.

This is a good book. If I had to cateogrize its content with one phrase I would say it is a "celebration of family." But, it is much more than that. While family is at the core of most of the pieces, from great grandparents to grandchildren, there is also the appreciation and love of the culture that surrrounded and surrounds the family and that was created and is being created by the family.

One of the strongest attributes of the author is that she can switch gears from being very serious and thought provoking to being downright funny. She ranges from Harper Lee's appreciation of the beauty of simple, sometimes imperfect, reality to a humorous observation of that same reality in the style of Erma Bombeck or Jean Kerr. If you want to read material that provokes good memories of the people and places of your life this is the book to buy.

This is also the art of oral history at its best. Reading this book will remind people over the age of fifty of remembrances they heard on their front porches, or those of their grandparent's, on dark nights with light from the moon and a lamp in the front room providing the only illumination to the scene. What a treat to be taken back to a peaceful scene like that accented only by the occasional crack of the screen door slamming shut. For the younger generations this book will implant an idea of how important it is to keep your family alive through memories -- sad, happy and humorous memories. This book will make you feel good.

It's helpful to have at least a passing acquaintance with Jean Piaget's theories before reading this book, but it's not necessary. Kamii shows in so many many ways that the thought life of young children is different from our own. Not only should this be required reading for all Kindergarten through second grade teachers, but also for those politicians and political pundits whose back to basics (and did we ever really leave the basics?) approach to curriculum simply makes life miserable for these poor kids. (because what they think are the basics aren't really the true basics of thought)

One interesting aspect of the book is that it was in part co-written with a primary school teacher who tries out some of Kamii's ideas in her own classroom. She is initially skeptical that Kamii knows what she's talking about, but later realizes the truth of it when confronted with the evidence of her own senses.

After you read this book, you'll never see a kid do a problem like 5 + 1 or 16 + 7 with the same eyes again.

If you are looking for a better way to teach children math in the early grades, you must read this book.

In Young Children Reinvent Arithmetric, Professor Constance Kamii takes you on a journey of discovery as she works with teacher Georgia DeClark in her first grade classroom. Together they work through the first grade math curriculum finding games and real life situations that will assist students in developing the mathematical thinking skills that underlie the curriculum goals.

The book begins with background information on Piaget's Theory of number, demonstrating how children develop logical-mathematical thinking by interacting with the world and each other. In Part Two the goals and objectives of the curriculum are explained. In Part Three the activities used to teach the children are explained in great detail so that teachers will understand how to use them in their own classrooms. In Part 4 The teacher tells her story. Part Five provides the program evaluation with the research and testing that was done. The children in DeClark's classroom are compared to children in a classroom using traditional teaching methods.

Constance Kamii has been transforming the Constructivist Theory of the origins of thinking by Jean Piaget into practical activities for teaching for decades. Her work is so important in these days of standardized testing and NCLB.
Nancy Illing author of SPARKS Ignite Imagination

I am a Kindergarten teacher and would recommend this book to teachers and parents looking for a good resource to teach children number concepts. Kamii not only discusses number concepts and problem solving, she also gives lots of easy to make games to make learning these things fun. Wonderful book!

Written accounts of solitary wilderness living show up every once in a while, and seem to have become especially popular after the Baby Boomers "discovered" Thoreau in the 1960s. His words still inspire a few folks to chuck their lives of quiet desperation and head for the hills to get away from it all. Some are successful, some are not. Many stay there only a year or two before the most pressing need -- the financial one -- forces them to return to civilization.

That's not the case with Thomas Rain Crowe, who spent four years (1978-1982) living alone in a cabin in the Smoky Mountains of western North Carolina. Crowe went back to his home state after living in a variety of places, doing a variety of work, communing with a variety of people. When given the opportunity to be the cabin tenant, he made the most of it. He worked hard to be self-sufficient, growing his own food and tending to his home and his tools. Others might have been bored in such a setting, but not him. He was always busy: gardening, fishing, taking care of his beehives, making homebrew, digging his root cellar, taking notes on the experience. And he regained the use of one his most valuable resources, the Southern Mountain speech of his childhood. He was downright satisfied with the situation.

His mentors in this effort were several local men who offered advice from time to time: Zoro Guice appeared in Yoda-like fashion whenever Crowe needed to learn how to perform a certain task. Walt Johnson was the scamp of the neighborhood, but was also an accomplished dowser who could find water every time. From these and other natives Crowe learned how to live close to the land, to live in the time of the seasons. The reader senses that Crowe would be living there still, if civilization hadn't encroached upon the property and changed it forever. That's when he knew he had to leave.

Not just a doer, Crowe is also a viewer -- a writer, a poet, a spiritual man who feels a strong connection to the natural world. His poetry uses simple words and turns of phrase to evoke powerful images. On the other hand, his prose, the narrative of his story, is the work of a learned and literate man. Complex constructs entice the reader to keep on going, to chew on the concepts and experiences offered. It takes time to digest these lines, and it's time well spent. Having witnessed Thomas Rain Crowe read some of this book aloud in person, I have the benefit of having heard the hint of the Smokies in his voice, the love for the place evident in every well-spoken syllable. No matter; it comes through in the typewritten text as well.

So was Thomas Wolfe right or wrong? Can you or can't you go home again? The reader decides. In the meantime, "Zoro's Field" should be placed on a shelf with the works of the old and new naturalists (Thoreau, Burroughs, Leopold, Carson, Eiseley, Bass) to one side, and the "Foxfire" books to the other. A thought-provoking addition to the environmental canon.

The local legend and mountain sage of the Appalachians of western North Carolina Zoro Guice told the author, "If a man goes out in the woods and just sits down in one place for long enough, all of nature and everything he needs to know will eventually pass before him like a parade." And so Crowe--poet, publisher, and recording artist--took up residence in the Appalachians for four years, and writes about the "parade." As in Thoreau's "Walden," Crowe writes about how he subsisted in the wild and what he learned from this. But moving somewhat beyond "Walden" in content and form, Crowe writes more about what goes on beyond himself; and some passages are in the form of verse. Not so meticulous or contained as "Walden," "Zoro's Field" reflects on modernity's effects on the tie with nature, environmental concerns, and changes which have come to the area. Though different in ways from Thoreau's classic which it cannot help but be compared with, Crowe's work in this same genre holds its own as an engaging, thought-inducing memoir.

More than a modern Walden, this is a book about intentional living. Crowe returns to home land in the southern mountains of North Carolina after living in Europe and northern California. Guided by principles of the Beat poets and philosophers, he embraces the traditions of sustenance, growing his own food, tending bees (honey for trade), making wine and beer. From his cabin beside the Green River gorge, he explores both terrain and history in celebration of a way of life that has been largely lost. The book is elegant and poetic. Crowe writes with an easy style, but critical intellect.

This collection of essays is so charming, clever and funny that you'll want to read them again and again! It is laugh out loud hilarious and I love this book! Mandy's writing brings the Southern way of living to life on every page. It actually made me homesick for Atlanta when I read it! Thank you Mandy for a delightful book. I look forward to great things from you in the future!

I loved this book. Where has this girl been hiding? Every newspaper in America should carry her columns. Her style reminds me of Celestine Sibley, Erma Bombeck and Lewis Grizzard all rolled into one. Funny, touching, so incredibly true. She paints pictures with words.

This book is a brilliant account of the fascinating relationship between two of the most brilliant minds in American history. It is a highly enjoyable read, and a welcome companion to the "The Adams-Jefferson Letters."

Merrill D. PetersonÕs Adams and Jefferson: A Revolutionary Dialogue is a well-documented study of how two men of differing characters and political views met and became life-long friends. Drawing heavily on the Adams-Jefferson letters and other primary sources, Peterson does a satisfactory job of explaining why these two men became friends and traced the very course of their friendship. In reading this book, I have learned that even though political events like the Election of 1800 and the French Revolution can overwhelm and destroy a friendship, a faithful friend can act as a go-between and help repair a friendship.

This book conveys the words of a young Union soldier who was captured and taken to the Southern prison they called Andersonville. This detailed account taken from the diary of Charles Hopkins tells a story of survival and horror. It makes you imagine trying to survive in a disease riddened prison with barely any food or fresh water. Read this book because it will be one you will never forget

This first person account provides a wealth of insight into the day-to-day rituals of "life" in one of the most forbidding Civil War prison camps. Throughout his trials, however, Charles Hopkins never loses his faith in humanity and even manages to endure with a sense of humor. His uplifting story bears testimony to the strength of the human spirit under fire. Hopkins' style of writing is descriptive and conversational, and works well with the enlightening information and photos supplied by editors Mr. Styple and Mr. Fitzpatrick. I highly recommend this book to all who are interested in the Civil War and in becoming acquainted with one of its many unsung heroes.