Connecticut Books

A perfectly nice book, which should have been a good deal larger, but is currently being sold at 20 per cent off at Borders. Further, the editor, Stan Patey, has already put out a better book in 1996: The Coast of New England: A Pictorial Tour.

This book is a guide book for touring selected New England gardens. The text gives the address, admission and a description of each of the gardens. No photos (disappointing) in this book.

If you live in or are going to visit New England, a decent guide to gardens based on location.

The overall story line of this book is interesting, especially since parts of it are based on the author's life, but it needs some polish and revision. As I read the book, I noticed many typos, missing words, grammatical errors, etc. In several places the story line was interupted by the author's inclusion of rants on her own political theory and unnecessary details. The book is still worth reading, but with some editing and revision it could be much better.

Very dry for fun reading but great for reports, etc. When I say dry I mean it won't be fun to read just for fun. I used it for a report on the Mashantucket Pequot tribe and although it didn't have anything in partcular on them it had things they may have done or do. I recomend it.

As a Trail guide I think it definately needs more description of the trail and put trail names on the maps. It's nice to go by a map once you are on a trail, but these maps leave out a lot of important trail markers and was very hard to follow. Usually on any given trail there are a lot of loops you can take, nothing was specified on these maps. The description on what is on the trail is pretty nice, but using the maps turned out effortless. You need to concentrate more on the trail so people don't get lost.

Tom Boileau is raised in a black community of Bartonvale, Connecticut, the Plated City, and emerges as a talented baseball player. He leads the State League in hitting and is promoted to the majors. To mask his racial identity, he plays as Mendoza. Bartonvale fans see him in the Polo Grounds and recognize him as the colored guy who used to play for their team. Word gets out, and Boileau/Mendoza is banned from pro baseball--much like the real events in the late nineteenth century.
The main part of the book, however, deals with labor problems and other social dilemmas in an industrial town. Tom Boileau's sister is also affected by the ambiguous racial identity of the family. She is verbally attacked as being both a non-union employee of the Atwood factory and as an African American--despite her light-skinned beauty.
The book is only mediocre in literary quality but is an important social document. It is the only novel before 1950 to feature racism in pro baseball.

What's amazing to me is that Henry Brewster Stanton selected these recollections and forgot to mention anything but once about his wife Elizabeth Cady Stanton! What a supportive husband!

This short and well-written study uses Russian archives to follow the course of Russian foreign policy towards the Romanian Principalities in a single year: 1859, the year of the "double election" of Alexander Cuza as hospodar of both Wallachia and Moldavia, the first step toward Romanian national union. The interests of Russian foreign minister Gorchakov and envoy Giers in the fate of a large territory adjacent to Russia were complicated and in the end overwhelmed by two other Russian interests: the need to placate France in the hostile, post-Crimean world, and the need to stand tall on behalf of Orthodoxy, even if that meant antagonizing the Romanians. This second factor was behind the dispute over the "Dedicated Monastaries", which controlled fully one quarter of the land of Wallachia and one third of Moldavia, but which paid no taxes, were under no Romanian state control, and sent their revenues to the foreign "holy places" to which they were "dedicated". Jelavich tells her story well, letting the documents speak for themselves and providing useful discussion and interpretation. Interested readers will want to consult two other useful sources on Romanian developments in the 19th century: Radu Florescu's "The Struggle Against Russia in the Romanian Principalities, 1821-1854," and Paul Michelson's "Romanian Politics 1859-1871: From Prince Cuza to Prince Carol." Some of the emotion behind the Russian national view is expressed in Dostoevsky's fascinating "Writer's Diary."

Although kids may be a little puzzled and bored by this tale of All Hallow's Eve, it will still scare them and keep them interested enough to want to read it until the end. A good historical fiction book for younger kids.

I think this is one of the strongest and most wonderful stories I have read. Family is not near as important today as it used to be. Makes you stop and think and appreciate those who will love and know you better than anybody else. I have read this book over and over. I have gone so far to buy the movie and watch regularly.

This book is pointless. The protagonist is on a major ego trip. We are supposed to believe that she is the toast of a research foundation and newspapers around the country because of very superficial interviews she does with people who are already in the news. Also, the author wants us to believe that on the one hand, the grandmother is a hardy person who will live well into her nineties, yet on the other hand she has dementia and other health issues. The author just throws things into this book for effect without considering logic. It is an incohesive, contrived mess.

These women are so dependant upon each other, it makes me wonder why the girls ever got married in the first place. I would hate to be married to someone who has to be so close to her family. What is the point in marriage, no wonder she was so worried about her husband leaving her she has no idea on how to be a wife. These girls need to grow up and move on with life "Leave and Cleve". The fact that the men were so willing to give up their own families, and become dependant on their wives family is totally unbelievable, and also have dinner together all the time come on how stupid. I did read the entire book however, because I do like Luanne Rice and I guess I figured that there would be more coming. Well I do recommend the author, but not this book don't waste your time!

I like Luanne Rice and have enjoyed her books. This book simply wasn't believable. Yes, you can love your family, but her portrayal of this family was over the top. My mother has dementia and is in an assisted living home. It is a wonderful, compassionate place. Georgie's obsession with her husband and family just got sickening as the book went on. Rushing home from Nick's family to be there to cut some cake wasn't fair to his family. Her other books are much better. I wasted my money on this one.

This is the absolutely worst book I have ever read in this genre. Scratching your finger nails on the chalk board would give more satisfaction. Don't even waste your time, there are so many other books out there!