The Eclectic Shade Tree.(book group)(Organization
overview)
LOCATION: ONLINE
How did your group form?
The Eclectic Shade Tree Book Group began in 2002, when Jason, its
facilitator, took his brother's advice and launched an online book
club in which they . . .
All this and poetry too.(Book review)
The Iliad of Homer
Translated by Richmond Lattimore
Robert Fagles's translations are often praised, but Lattimore
is the translator I read for the full, mythic grandeur of ancient Greek
myth. . . .
Two shelves of favorites.(Book review)
Two shelves hold my 32 favorite books. As hard as it was to choose
them, here are my ten favorites.
The Reckoning
By David Halberstam
In this nonfiction book, Halberstam traces the rise of . . .
Incoming nonfiction.(Bibliography)(Brief article)
Maps and Legends | MICHAEL CHABON: Chabon offers a collection of 16
essays on reading and writing. MAY
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Spiritual Evolution | GEORGE E. VAILLANT, MD: Author of Aging . . .
Looming crime.(Bibliography)(Brief article)
Odd Hours | DEAN KOONTZ: Fourth in the Odd Thomas series. MAY
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The Front | PATRICIA CORNWELL: The team from Cornwell's At
Risk returns. MAY
Nothing to Lose | LEE CHILD: . . .
Coming soon: upcoming books worthy of your attention.
FICTION
Skeletons at the Feast | CHRIS BOHJALIAN: Inspired by an actual
World War II diary. PREVIOUSLY: The Double Bind (*** May/June 2007) and
Before You Know Kindness (**** seLectIon Jan/Feb . . .
Between the covers: a different kind of issue overview.
YOUNG BOYS COMING OF AGE
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The Blue Star
By Tony Earley
We first met 10-year-old Jim Glass, raised in Depression-era
Aliceville, North Carolina, in Earley's Jim the Boy (2000). Now he
is . . .
Bookmarks selections: staff favorites from among the most highly
rated books in this issue.
LITERARY
Page 31
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Lush Life
By Richard Price
The crime novel and social novel come together in this scathing
look at violence, class inequalities, and torn social fabric . . .
Correction: 1950 best sellers.(letters)(Correction
notice)
Because of a production error, the 1950 fiction best sellers on
page 68 of our March/April 2008 issue were not from 1950. The error
sneaked in during our print production process. Thanks to all . . .
Genre deficit.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
I received my latest issue of Bookmarks (Mar/Apr) today and was
disappointed. Literary Fiction racked up a whopping 14-pages, while all
other genres rated only two to four pages. (Crime, my . . .
Fan mail.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
I really look forward to when Bookmarks arrives in my mail. I fill
up my "Want to Read" list on paper, and then I pass the issue
on to the nurse-practitioner at my doctor's office. We give . . .
21st-century Jane.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
I love the magazine! You published a profile of Jane Austen in your
Jan/Feb 2004 issue, which is unfortunately now out of print. But is this
article available on your Web site?
Miriam Miller
. . .
Letter from the editor.
Among my many guilty pleasures are movies about teachers inspiring
students. No matter how bad they are, no matter how made-for-TV they
might be, I'll cheer each one on until the end. One of the . . .
Coming soon: current and upcoming books worthy of your
attention.(Bibliography)
COMING IN MARCH 2008
FICTION
CHANGE OF HEART | JODI PICOULT: Picoult is the current master of
the current-events-moral-dilemma strain of fiction. The promo on this
book's dust jacket: "Would . . .
iUniverse--discovering tomorrow's authors
today.(Bibliography)
Brooklyn Suite
Michael Angrosino 978-0-595-43124-3 Price $13.95
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Set in the 1950s, a working-class Italian neighborhood in Brooklyn,
N.Y., is captured on the verge of . . .
Between the covers: a different kind of issue overview.
CULTURES COMING TOGETHER
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BREAKFAST WITH BUDDHA.
By Roland Merullo
A Manhattanite and a Mongolian monk go on a road trip. PAGE 38
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THEM
By Nathan . . .
Presidential Courage.(history)(Presidential Courage: Brave
Leaders and How They Changed America, 1789-1989)(Book review)
GOOD
Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989
Popular historian writes profiles in courage.
Presidential historian du jour Michael Beschloss revisits the high
points of nine . . .
Chasing Kangaroos.(BOOKMARKS SELECTION)(Chasing Kangaroos: A
Continent, a Scientist, and a Search for the World's Most
Extraordi
EXCELLENT
A Continent, a Scientist, and a Search for the World's Most
Extraordinary Creature
A love letter to the marsupial.
Kangaroos, Australian paleontologist Tim Flannery claims, are
"the . . .
Uncommon Arrangements.(history)(Uncommon Arrangements: Seven
Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles, 1910-1939)(Bo
EXCELLENT
Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles
1910-1939
For better or for worse.
"Why should I have a sort of moral obligation to see that you
eat enough?" grumbled . . .
Reclaiming History.(history)(Reclaiming History: The
Assassination of President John F. Kennedy)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
Sorry, Oliver Stone.
"Where were you when ... ?" For more than four decades,
the Kennedy assassination has provoked the kind of . . .
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