Cover story.(letters)
Your Nov/Dec 2007 cover is beautiful. Who created it and who posed
for it?
Also, I recently gave my copy of Bookmarks to the Klamath County
librarian, and she loved it. The library is a new . . .
An ocean of air: why the wind blows and other mysteries of the
atmosphere.(Bookmarks Selection)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
By Gabrielle Walker
A popular-science primer.
Air, the saying goes, is one of those things you don't really
miss until it's gone. Gabrielle Walker uses the ocean metaphor--a
notion . . .
Circling my mother.(BOOKMARKS SELECTION)(Book review)
A Memoir
And now on to Mother.
EXCELLENT
Novelist and memoirist Mary Gordon limned a frightening picture of
her father's deceptions in The Shadow Man: A Daughter's Search
for Her Father . . .
The Intruders.(Book review)
EXCELLENT
Genre-bending murder mystery
When Seattle resident Bill Anderson's wife and son are found
brutally murdered and Bill is nowhere to be found, attorney Gary Fisher
approaches an old . . .
Silence.(Book review)
EXCELLENT
Private eye vs. tango-dancing killers.
Private eye Jack Till helped restaurateur Wendy Harper
"disappear" six years earlier when assassins were hot on her
trail. Now, someone's trying . . .
Letter from the editor.(Letter to the editor)
Happy New Year! We always make a special effort to sit down at the
start of the year to evaluate how we're doing and examine what we
could do to improve the magazine. As we were preparing for our . . .
Science.(The World Without Us)(Book review)
GOOD
The World Without Us
By Alan Weisman
Earth, dehumanized.
It is a simple, provocative question: What will become of human
works if we suddenly disappeared from the planet? For answers, . . .
Biography.(Book review)
NONFICTION
EXCELLENT
Eden's Outcasts
The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
By John Matteson
A tale of paradise lost (and found).
Though Louisa May Alcott gets top billing in the . . .
Crime/sf crossovers.(Book review)
EXCELLENT
Bad Monkeys
By Matt Ruff
Killing for the common good?
Jane Charlotte sits in the crazy person's interrogation room
in the Las Vegas County Jail, accused of murder and confessing . . .
The Tin Roof Blowdown.(BOOKMARKS SELECTION)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
A moving eulogy for a beloved city.
Hurricane Katrina has just decimated New Orleans, and deputy Dave
Robicheaux of New Iberia Parish--last seen in Pegasus Descending
(2006)--has been . . .
WWII: what we missed.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
I have had little cause to be disappointed with your magazine and
have enjoyed a number of the books recommended. However, I am greatly
disappointed in the Nov/Dec issue's "What One Book: World . . .
Arts.(The House That George Built: With a Little help from
Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
The House That George Built
With a Little help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty
By Wilfrid Sheed
A fan's look at all that jazz.
Writer and critic Wilfrid Sheed has . . .
History.(history books)(Book review)
NONFICTION
EXCELLENT
The Coldest Winter
America and the Korean War
By David Halberstam
The forgotten war, remembered.
The Korean War (1950-1953) ended in stalemate, yet it still . . .
General.(Book review)
Nonfiction
EXCELLENT
F5
Devastation, Survival and the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the
20th Century
By Mark Levine
The storm of the century.
The night of April 3, 1974 was unlike . . .
Sf.(short fiction)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
The Queen of Candesce
Book Two of Virga
By Karl Schroeder
The sequel to Sun of Suns.
At the conclusion of Sun of Suns, Venera Fanning is falling through
space in Virga, a . . .
Word of mouth again!(letters)(Letter to the editor)
I noticed you requested that current subscribers write online
reviews when possible. That is an easy request. A fellow bibliophile
asked about Bookmarks on a Yahoo book group that I participate in, . . .
Year in books 1997: A look back at books that captured our
attention.(Bibliography)
THE AWARDS
National Book Award (NONFic)
American Sphinx
The Character of Thomas Jefferson By Joseph J. Ellis In chipping
away at the ironic facade of Thomas Jefferson, the author reveals . . .
India after Gandhi; The history of the world's largest
democracy.(Book review)
EXCELLENT
India, complex and inscrutable.
"Why is there an India at all?" That's the most
pressing question in India After Gandhi, and the author responds with a
comprehensive examination of . . .
Down the Nile.(Book review)
Alone in a fisherman's skiff
Not just a river in Egypt.
EXCELLENT
Down the Nile recounts Rosemary Mahoney's 120-mile journey in
a rowboat from Aswan northward to Qena, two Egyptian cities . . .
The Name of the Wind.(BOOKMARKS SELECTION)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
By Patrick Rothfuss
A trilogy's fantastic opening volume.
Patrick Rothfuss's debut, The Name of the Wind, recounts the
life of Kvothe, a mysterious figure highly skilled in the . . .
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