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Romance, inspiration, and a bit of a mystery, too. . .Review Date: 2001-01-18
Riverbend is a town where no one is what they seemReview Date: 2000-07-18
Lily Bennett, the byproduct of an affluent and happy upbringing (ie. a River Rat), had married into wealth fifteen years ago because she had fallen in love with a Boston attorney. After a disastrous ten-year marriage, she returns to Riverbend to heal and yes, to hide in her newly purchased house and to paint her still lifes. Her actions cause people to believe that she grieves for her husband and she does nothing to correct them for fear of disappointing the town's opinion of her. The truth is, she is far from being the perfect girl they always thought she was.
Both Aaron and Lily have their past reputations to deal with and Arnold illustrates this well through their developing friendship. Lily finds it hard to believe, at first, that bad boy Aaron has become a respectable teacher. Aaron comes to realize that Lily's seeming self-assurance is actually shyness. And there is a major conflict concerning Aaron and his mother denying him his birthright. For thirty-three years, Aaron has struggled with the truth surrounding his paternity and he fully believes that it hinders any chance of a relationship with Lily in the most fundamental way.
Arnold is off to a great start with Riverbend and it is to be hoped that the other five authors, whose stories comprise this mini-series, can pick up her thread and continue. Riverbend is a small town but Arnold illustrates it beautifully through her narration. Through her fluid prose, she has shown that she is an artist, like her heroine, but words are her medium of choice.
A " feel good " romanceReview Date: 2000-07-08
Another rat, formerly Lily Bennett now Holden married a millionaire Boston attorney who died in a car accident. Lily returned home because living in Massachusetts was no longer the same for her.
Needing funds to finance a sports program for teens from poor families, Aaron turns to the last person he wants to beg for money, Lily. Not only was she a pain, he remembers her father the doctor dropping off cash to his mother. Still, when they meet, Lily and Aaron surprisingly remain attracted to one another. Soon that blossoms into love, but both have demons from the past plus several townsfolk who do not believe the once bad boy is now good enough for the daughter of their doctor.
BIRTHRIGHT, the first novel in the six-book Riverbend series, is a warm contemporary romance that provides a vivid picture of a Midwest town. The story line is fun to read as the audience obtains a glimpse of adults who were once best friends in high school. The lead couple is a charming duo struggling with reputations and other ghosts. The support cast makes Riverbend seem like a genuine Indiana town. Judith Arnold has set a high benchmark of quality that places much pressure on subsequent authors (see THAT SUMMER THING by Pamela Bauer in August) to match or surpass over the next five months.
Harriet Klausner
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The Boswell of American chessReview Date: 2008-05-23
SynopsisReview Date: 2007-07-09
Grandmaster Arnold Denker is known as the Grand Old Man of American Chess. In this memoir, GM Denker - who was U.S. chess champion from 1944 to 1946 - skillfully intertwines with his own life the stories of great chess men whom he knew and loved. Denker, who is renowned as a chess raconteur, was inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame in 1993. His co-author is Larry Parr, a former Editor of Chess Life (1984-1988). Mr Parr has received more individual awards for excellence from the Chess Journalists of America than any other chess writer.
Entertaining and informativeReview Date: 2005-06-29
The most difficult aspect of putting together such a book is to avoid the all too frequent concentration on stories about people who really haven't had any impact on the game, but simply happened to have been around the chess scene for a long time. It isn't easy to diligently select only material that really is of some interest to the majority of readers. Legendary American Grandmaster Arnold Denker, who lived one of the longest and most productive chess lives, and former Chess Life editor Larry Parr have done a magnificent job of presenting fascinating material and unknown games that are entertaining and instructive. I wish they had been presented in algebraic notation, but that's the only small flaw I can find in this book, reprinted by the firm of Hardinge Simpole, whose mission is to " rescue from oblivion any worthwhile publication by the pen of an acknowledged master of chess writing"
I can't even begin to list the varied contents of this wonderful book, but if you have any interest in the American chess world, go out and buy it. It will give you countless hours of entertainment and you'll learn about many fascinating figures, both famous and obscure, and how they have enriched our chess history. Many of the games in this book are not in databases and I hope that they will eventually be entered into our collective chess encyclopedia. As for the stories, each and every one of them is worth telling, and you'll likely be able to use them to entertain people even if they aren't chessplayers.
An ideal, user-friendly text for intermediate to advanced Latin studentsReview Date: 2006-07-05
old and goodReview Date: 2002-09-26
The bible of Continuous Latin prose compositionReview Date: 1999-11-11
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Completely engaging!Review Date: 1999-02-11
I love my boobs now that I read thisReview Date: 1999-02-25
TherapeuticReview Date: 2000-06-14
Maybe I have an unusual viewpoint: a man from a sexually repressed family with lots of double standards. I sometimes objectified women, or tried to view them as asexual. Either way it creates a warped relationship. This book is helping me to develop a new attitude toward breasts and the women who bear them.
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A masterpieceReview Date: 1999-06-05
This is an outstanding bookReview Date: 1999-04-13
This is the hardest and best book around.Review Date: 1999-03-12
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a must read for those interested in education and readingReview Date: 2007-05-19
It is the unchanging school ballet - order and authority aligned against limit testing and restlessness. 18
(on his in-class "library") Every year, a certain percentage of the collection walks out from under my porous record-keeping system, but I console myself with visions of these books on bedside tables or sharing valuable shelf space with Al Green and Boys II Men. 20
For three years, I watched some wonderful word magicians ignite children's interest in language, instill in them the realization that words can be pleasurable, not the leaded mallets with which they had been bludgeoned into muteness in the previous classrooms. 42
There was a second group of parents and kids who desperately needed the school and were determined to make it work. These were the misfits, kids unsuited for what passed for the normal teenage world. For them, the goal was not so much achievement as sheer survival, negotiating the treacherous straits of early adolescence en route to a less judgmental, more tolerant adulthood. 67
The work of teachers arouses as little curiosity from the general public as that of garbagemen and mechanics. Perhaps the fact that all of us have spent at least twelve years in the thrall of one teacher or another is sufficient to convince us that we already know all we ever care to know about teaching. 81
(the classic school desks) Is there an official name for those cursed objects with the fixed arm on which to rest your test paper or your binder? Strapped into this contraption, every man is alone, pitting his triumphs against those of his adversaries, never to reach out and join forces with them. 83
Where does the teacher's desk go, and what does that tell us about the guy who operates in this space? Does he hold court from behind or does he just use it as a place to unload his papers? 83
the whole thing on selecting books for the class year, pages 84-92
As my lists of possibilities proliferates, I get excited over the prospect of introducing some of the books I love to an audience innocent of them. 84
I'm partial to books that open out onto other vistas - literary, political, psychological. 85
In general, I don't believe in textbooks for English students at any level. There are real books students can and should be reading regardless of age or ability. Textbooks will never produce literate adult readers. 85
...when it's clear that even at the early grade levels, the way to promote reading is by exposing kids to the plethora of good books capable of exciting them about reading. 86
Students need to inhale great quantities of literature in their school years in order to get a reasonable sampling of the universe of inspired and inspiring writing they can choose from as independent adult readers. 86
Providing a good education means attuning students to the fact that there are a richness and diversity of cultures, experiences, and styles that await... 88
... white students need to know of Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison as much as black students should experience Dickens and Edith Wharton... we have an obligation to stretch and extend students beyond the level on which they come to us. 89
(on a downside of "young adult fiction") Once students are fed on the bouncing first-person colloquial... whose voices mesh seamlessly with those of their readers, they have little tolerance for an unfamiliar voice, an embellished vocabulary, an alien style. Students are all too often irritated by language different in any way from what washes around them every day. 89
Although fantasy literature at its best can be imaginative and entertaining, it is short of characterization and detail and long on action. 89
The net effect of the proliferation of juvenile and young adult fiction is to reduce students' tolerance for reading cloaked in unfamiliar styles, spun out in denser detail, or following unfamiliar characters. Children are the world's true conservatives. The want exactly what they've already had. Dickens and Shakespeare are weird. the Sound and the Fury and Death of a Salesman, although they're more contemporary, are also weird because of their nonlinear structure. ...but students are generally programmed to expect lockstep chronological writing. 90
Good teaching is an odd mix of artistry, vulnerability, and technical prowess. We reach down into our own interests and experience to sketch our plans... 95
(on helping one student edit her work) ...I tried to explain that all this melodrama wasn't necessary to make a good story. Smaller, more subtle things could happen. Characters could change in more interesting ways... 97
I was awestruck. Kristen had made a literary discovery on her own that was beyond the reach of a lot of adult writers: the significance of voice and point of view in fiction and the ways in which the final product is shaped by the choice of who tells the story. 98-9
(on standardized achievement tests) ... but one with potentially disastrous implications for education. First it defines the goals of teaching and education in an unacceptable narrow way (the content of the test is what should be taught). 100
The important thing is that the kids got to see me in a role and context different from the one in which they encounter me every day. I think it's enormously important for everyone to be able to see the people in their lives acting in many different roles. One of the prime virtues of small-town life ...106
Let's not forget that it's a two-way street, too. ... so often we see our kids only in their role as student and forget what a small part of their lives that is and how many other dimensions to their behavior we're not seeing. 107
Fortunately, teaching is more similar to baseball than it is to the Olympics. When you have a bad day in baseball, you're right back in the ballpark the next day with a chance to make adjustments. An Olympic flop may be forever. 121
Why do we read except to live symbolically all the lives we will never live, to feel compassion for characters who, although they are not us, share with us a common humanity? The empathy reflected in these student journals and in the class discussions that sprang from them confirms the need to put aside our timidity and risk introducing unheard voices to our classes. 134
(upon being challenged by a parent that all the books were dark and gloomy) After playing back the reading lists... With very few exceptions, the books both young adult and adult, that appeared on my reading lists have been a dark lot - tales of mental illness, suicide, racial hatred, religious prejudice, sexual abuse, divorce, and death. But in spite of the depressing subject matter, the books are often uplifting testimonials to the power of the human spirit to survive adversity and even be ennobled by it. An encounter with social and religious prejudices leaves a character not crushed but strong, and clearer about who he or she is; a family wrestling with the suicide of a child is drawn closer by the bond of their common tragedy; a sexually abused child blossoms into a renowned writer. 141
We have to keep in mind Tolstoy's famous dictum that happy families are all alike; the stuff of serious literature has always been tragic... Most vital fiction draws on the underside of human relationships and human emotions. The lives of the students who inhabit our classrooms are suffused with the same dark material that is the stuff of literature. 141
(when a call home to a student's grandmother had a deeper effect than expected) During a year of journal writing and truncated conversations, the story of Arthur's amazement that I had cared enough to call home, that I was upset by his departure, emerged. This simple gesture was enough to draw him back to school. 205
(in discussion with a student who liked popular novels, such as those by Grisham) It's taken some effort of both our parts for Monica to arrive at this formulation of the difference between escape reading and literature.... you'll see how hard it is to communicate what sets enduring art apart from airport books. 216
Eudcational Writing at Its BestReview Date: 2001-06-22
Educational Writing at Its BestReview Date: 2001-06-22
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"A Child Dies" - comments of a bereaved grandfatherReview Date: 2000-01-18
The authors exude compassion, wisdom and experience. They gently confront the gruesome issues the parents of a lost child will likely encounter (martial problems, interaction with others, etc). My 9-month old grandaughter was killed the first day of the new millenia, by a drunk driver, as my daughter was walking her in her stroller. Needless to say, our families are shattered. My daughter and I found this book the best of several which we have read in these two hearbreaking weeks.
The Best BookReview Date: 2002-09-12
This caring book will be of great comfort to those in need..Review Date: 2001-01-18
CONTENTS:
Preface 1 The Meaning of Loss 2 Children and Parents: A Family Perspective 3 The Process of Grieving a Child's Death 4 Death Before Birth and During Infancy 5 Death of a Young Child 6 Death of an Older Child 7 Living Without 8 Siblings and Other Survivors 9 Caring for Grieving Families 10 For Caregivers Working with Grieving Families Appendix: Books about Death and Grief for Children and Parents
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An authentic accountReview Date: 2005-02-20
What makes this story unique [for the genre] is that this is not a story about one of the big [fast] steam ships running the blockade in and out of the major ports on the Atlantic coast, this is a story about a relatively small, shallow draft sailing schooner using stealth and its ability to go into shallow waters to sneak past the Union ships in the backwaters of the Gulf.
The other aspect of the story that really sticks out is that the vast majority of the true threats and dangers to both the captain and his little boat take place on land not at sea. From corrupt public officials and conniving business partners to dishonest and dangerous crew members you can't help but worry for the man every time he steps ashore.
A great read. Thanks to Barto Arnold and Texas A&M University Press for re-publishing it.
Suspense at Every TurnReview Date: 2003-06-23
In this book, William Watson relates the experiences he had during the last few years of the Civil War. Watson, a British subject and a Confederate veteran, purchases a schooner, the Rob Roy, with the intent of making money through honest trade. However, he quickly realizes that more money might be had through blockade running. To that end, while making a run up the Texas coast to New Orleans, he ducks into the Brazos River at peril from a blockading gunboat and begins his career as a runner.
In his career, Watson makes several successful runs with the Rob Roy before he is forced to sell it because of disagreements with his business partners. Watson then finds employment on a steamer, and later captains a few more runs himself before the Civil War -- and with it, blockade running -- comes to an end.
Several things interested me in the book. First, Watson paints a good picture of the Confederate economy. I could almost see him cringe when the government siezes his boat and desires to pay him off with worthless Confederate paper money. However, Watson manages to keep his cool and successfully negotiates to have his vessel released.
Also, Watson goes into great details about the tricks he learns to avoid the United States gunships and slip in and out of Galveston.
Finally, Watson's business transactions show that many people, including foreign governments, found ways to make money, if not a living, from the war.
To be sure, Watson makes no apology for being an experienced sea captain. As a result, the reader will want to have handy a nautical dictionary to better understand what happened, for example, when the foreboom unshipped from its mast, or to understand what the captain of a boarding party is saying when he asks, "Is your jib to windard?" While the general idea can be had if the reader bears with Watson, I find it all the better to get the full nuance that he intended.
I completed the book in a week, mainly because I always wanted to find out what was going to happen to Watson next. Through good luck and bad, Watson makes the most of his career, with the result that he finds himself hundreds of dollars richer than when he began.
If you are interested in either the operation of 19th Century sailing ships, or the United States blockade during the Civil War, I recommend that you read this book as an excellent eyewitness account of both.
Blockade running on the Texas coastReview Date: 2002-05-13
The book is of interest for the excellent writing style and coverage of the topic. Watson provides many technical details of how the captain of a blockade-runner carried out his job, including both daring the Union Navy and dealing with sharp businessmen ashore. We have no first hand accounts as yet for the Denbigh, but Watson's trips in and out of Galveston from Havana and other ports were very, very similar. Watson brings the past to life.
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I enjoy this bookReview Date: 2008-02-09
Two accounts by amazon.comReview Date: 2006-03-02
I have returned the book "Pathology and genetics of tumors of the soft tissues and bones" because I have already bought by amazon.com in my other account (vencio56@hotmail.com). My mistake.
The book is very good (5 stars).
Sincerely,
Eneida Franco Vencio
Pathology And Genetics of Tumours of the Soft Tissues And Bones (World Health Organization Classification of Tumours S.)Review Date: 2006-02-25
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Wonderful Collection of A Way Of LifeReview Date: 2007-08-18
It aptly collects a way of life that has quickly disappeared to development, and other wide-sweeping economic reasons that make profit from ranching very difficult.
Of note is the forward by Richard Farnsworth written shortly before he died. Much loved, Arnold handles his death with honesty and sensitivity.
Western Horseman Magazine
American Cowboy Magazine
The Straight Story Movie with Richard Farnsworth
The Grey Fox Movie with Richard Farnsworth
Hutterites of Montana Photo journal by Owen Wilson's Mother
Avedon at Work: In the American West (HRHRC Imprint Series) Photo journal by Luke Wilson's Mother
Cowboys and ranchers in their own wordsReview Date: 2003-06-15
Most informative for me were the sections on the differing traditions of Texas-style cowboys, who range across the Southwest and eastern slopes of the Rockies, and California-style buckaroos, who work the Great Basin of Oregon, Idaho, and Nevada. The details of cowboy gear are also presented well, with accompanying photographs and interviews with saddlemakers. A glossary at the back of the book defines a lot of these terms: hackamore, jinglebobs, mecate, snaffle bits. It also includes cowboy terminology, which often shows up in the interviews: roping cattle, drag the calves, pull a wagon.
A great pleasure is reading the words of cowboys themselves, as they express their various opinions, relate their memories of adventures, and talk about horses. What comes across over and again is a love of this way of life, despite the fact that looking after cattle on horseback is hard physical labor and pays little. You understand their pride, their sense of self-reliance and the importance of being recognized by others as "the man for the job." I recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the West, cowboys, and ranching. A good companion volume (out of print) is "Buckaroos in Paradise" by Howard Marshall.
Terrific Work -- Great Photos -- Wonderful InsightReview Date: 2001-11-12
Having spent the better part of my childhood on the back of a horse pretending to be a 'real cowgirl,' I found myself all wrapped up in memories while reading this fresh look at the life of modern-day cowboys.
The author, a true cowboy himself, traveled all over the south and west photographing working ranches and the people who own/work them. The author must have spent a good deal of time interviewing his subjects, because the book offers up some great stories/quotes, too.
The book is broken down into interesting chapters such as: THE COWBOY LIFESTYLE - RANCHING COUNTRY - GETTING IT DONE -- FAMILY LIFE - RANCH HORSES (my particular favorite) - DEFINING THE COWBOY - RANCHING TRADITIONS.
Some of my favorite quotes: On Ranch Horses: "If a horse ain't plum lame when you get done nailing the shoes on, you've done all right."
"There is something about a horse. They are a lot prettier animal than a man is, but not quite as pretty as a woman. They are beautiful animals. I was raising horses when I was raising my children. I raised them together. I credit that relationship with the fact that not one of my children has ever been involved in with drugs." (Rex Allen)
Or, the one in Family Life: "I'm Dusty, my wife is Sandy, my boy is Rocky, and my dauther's name is Wendy. Our names describe this ranch perfectly." (Dusty Ray)
I'm keeping this book on my coffee table for easy access. When I'm feeling penned up, I'll open it up, look at the wonderful photos, read the quotes and dream of life under the big sky of Montana or the scrub bushes of New Mexico.
Enjoy!
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Both Lily Bennett and Aaron Mazerik left Riverbend after high school graduation fifteen or so years ago--she to go to college and marry a wealthy Bostonian; he to just get out of the town where he was "someone's b-------d" and seemingly doomed to self-destruct. He landed in Indianapolis after college, and found his niche helping kids who are just like he was as a teenager. Now they've come home, only this time, he's gotten his act together and she is completely shattered following the death of her husband (though not for the reasons you might think). Suddenly, his old dream of having someone classy and "in" like her and her old dream of having a passionate partner like him resurface.
In addition to the great love scenes (as we used to call them), it's wonderful to meet the teacher that helped turn Aaron around eventually and for Aaron to tell him, "here's what you did that made the difference for me." (Every teacher should hear that at least once from a student) Also, in the final chapter or two, the mystery of Aaron's father's identity is revealed after years of guessing on Aaron's part and stalling on his mom's part. Aaron's mother, by the way, is a piece of work. I'm still trying to figure out what makes that woman do the things she does:)
Aaron's journey here was more fascinating to me than Lily's, for some reason, but I think it's because he's also featured very prominently in "Christmas Legacy", so I "know" him better from having read that book first. Or maybe, like Lily, I just have a soft spot for the underdog. You probably will, too, once you've read this series:)