Anne Depue
Oct 1, 2017
A Wild New England Gastropod
BOOK REVIEW The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating Elisabeth Tova Bailey, (Algonquin Books, 2016) In a snail’s world, there is no need for a...
Anne Depue
Sep 1, 2017
Coates’s Between the World and Me
BOOK REVIEW I had intended to follow my review of the tree book and an earlier review about a book on moss with a reading about birds, or...
Anne Depue
May 21, 2017
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate
BOOK REVIEW Communicating via a dark web, marching north at the rate of a quarter mile a year, releasing alarms when under attack, and...
Anne Depue
Apr 1, 2017
The Wonders of Moss (really!)
BOOK REVIEW Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Oregon State University Press, 168 pages....
Jim Snell
Mar 1, 2017
A New Political Force
BOOK REVIEW Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, by Jane Mayer An overused term these...
Jim Snell
Dec 1, 2016
A 100-year review of America’s foreign affairs
BOOK REVIEW ‘“That little Kennedy…he thought he was a god,” and then the storm passed and the genial old gentleman was himself again’. So...
Jim Snell
May 1, 2016
Why Do They Hate Us?
BOOK REVIEW The book Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill should be read by anyone who asks the question that is the title of this review. It is...
Leschi Council
Jan 1, 2015
Tom Hoffman - Watercolors
BOOK REVIEW Leschi artist Tom Hoffman has written an elegant, beautifully produced book, entitled Watercolor Painting—A Comprehensive...
Jim Snell
Jan 1, 2015
A New Hellhound of Wall Street
BOOK REVIEW Neil Barofsky’s book Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street says it...
Jim Snell
Jan 1, 2015
Where Are We Going?
BOOK REVIEW Here, five years after the Great Recession began, we seem to be mired in a jobless recovery. What happened? Plenty of books...
Jim Snell
Jan 1, 2015
Where Is Our Hellhound?
BOOK REVIEW Michael Perino’s 2010 history of the Pecora hearings entitled The Hellhound of Wall Street will induce any reader to ask: Why...
Jim Snell
Jan 1, 2015
The Other Washington
BOOK REVIEW I've been reading (to be honest, listening to a downloadable audio book from our wonderful library) about Washington. Not...
