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Book reviews of recently published books.
- Added on: Jul 5th, 2008
- Country: United States
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The Silent Sentinel: San Pablo Apostol de Cabagan Church Reveals 300 Years of Secrets of the Philippines
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Summer of 1977: A North American Bicycling Odyssey
This is the story of Doug Freedline’s courageous bicycle trip across Canada and the United States. Having attempted this same adventure back in 1974 and failing to complete it, Doug was adamant about facing his demons and proving to himself and eve...
Kelleys Island: The courageous, poignant & often quirky lives of island pioneers 1810-1861
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Until the Deep Water Stills: An Internet-Enhanced Novel
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Live Your Purpose and Be Happy
From his beginnings as a young boy in Cuba to the successful man he is today, Arturo B. Condell has never stopped striving for success. Young Arturo learned this from his father Issac. Issac was never plagued with doubt of defeat; he was always a p...
Ferdinand Uses the Potty: An Empowering Toilet Training Tale
“Ferdinand Uses the Potty” by Jay Tucker is a book about a frog who is potty training. The opening page reads: “T’was the middle of the night some time ago, and our friend Ferdinand was in slumber. While dreaming of race cars and candied ...
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DeWitt Henry
I think you might enjoy SAFE SUICIDE, an essay cycle that plumbs the material of a life through topical prompts or meditations. Essays proceed from such questions as �who was the oddest adult in your childhood,� or orbit around key concepts such as free fall or gravity, or around central images such as self-immolation. Memoirs also build to or from salient photographs, taken or never taken; and from dreams. Ordinary settings, rituals and events, from filling an ink cartridge to running a marathon, become ground for meditations on such themes as consumerism or aging, and in classic fashion, the aspects of dailiness rise to the status of metaphor.
Sample comments:
"In this interconnected collection of autobiographical essays, we're brought into the fascinating life of a Boston-area novelist and editor struggling to build a viable writing career, sustain an important literary journal, and become a loving husband, father, and friend. Since these struggles are all accompanied by drama and pain (but also by unexpected pleasures), DeWitt Henry's vivid collection reads like an absorbing coming-of-age memoir."
--Chuck Leddy, THE BOSTON GLOBE
"In SAFE SUICIDE, an assemblage of revealing, interrelated essays, DeWitt Henry...offers up to us his world, honest and intimate. Henry's writing is confessional, yes, but these episodes don't feel designed to shock. More so, they're an acknowledgement of the strange, strained intimacies we share.... Throughout, Henry is able to imbue weight and significance to the daily trials.... And throughout, he demonstrates a reverence and a respect for his family, his fellow writers, his students, and the onward thumping push of life."
--Nina McLaughlin, THE PHOENIX
"What a beautiful book. You can't help but be taken by the force of SAFE SUICIDE'S emotional honesty and incredible intelligence about contemporary evil, untimely losses, middle age feelings of failure and marriage. There are so many marvelous things here: a bittersweet description of owning a difficult dog, a heartbreaking rendering of Henry's father, an equally compelling (and complex) sense of his teenage daughter's sexual indiscretions. What's more, Henry does for literary Boston what Dan Wakefield did for New York in his memoir; there's so much vividly realized material about Dan Wakefield and Richard Yates and Andre Dubus. Plus the drama of starting up PLOUGHSHARES, the literary magazine which Henry founded and edited for many years. An engaging and moving read. Highly recommended."
--Debra Spark, author of CURIOUS ATTRACTIONS
�As with any flat-out wonderful book, a few words of praise cannot begin to do it justice. But here goes: Safe Suicide is elegantly written, edgy, touching, inventive, surprising in its shifts of style and form, and completely spellbinding from start to finish. Partly memoir, partly a sequence of interlocked essays, this is a book that works its way under your skin and down into your vital organs. It is really, really good.�
--Tim O�Brien, author of THE THINGS THEY CARRIED
I am also the author of THE MARRIAGE OF ANNA MAYE POTTS (winner of the inaugural Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel), the founding editor of PLOUGHSHARES, and the editor of several anthologies, including SORROW�S COMPANY: WRITERS ON LOSS AND GRIEF.
For a brief sample reading see http://pages.emerson.edu/faculty/d/Dewitt_Henry/Essay_1.mp3. For a detailed interview, see
http://pages.emerson.edu/faculty/d/Dewitt_Henry/dewitt_interview.doc
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Vivek
Title: Lies, Lies and More Lies. The Campaign to Defame Hindu Nationalism
ISBN: 978-0-595-43549-4
ISBN (10): 0595435491
LCCN: 2007904121
Publisher: iUniverse
Publication date: June 26, 2007.
Author: Vivek
Tags: Hindutva; Communalism
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Review
A passionate and thoughtful call for perspective on hot-button Indian social issues., January 4, 2008
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) -
Lies, Lies and More Lies: The Campaign To Defame Hindu/Indian Nationalism is a sharp retort to unsavory portrayals of Hindu Nationalism (Hindutva), including accusations that equate the philosophy with pogroms and ethnic cleansing. Though author Vivek admits that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) should not be excused of the killings that have happened under its watch, notably in the Gujarat riots, he decries the tendency (especially among intellectuals) to unilaterally condemn the entire BJP and all of Hindu Nationalism, or even equate both with fascism. Worse, too much misinformation has spread concerning Hindu Nationalism and the BJP. Lies, Lies and More Lies spells out the reasoning behind Hindu Nationalism precepts: injustice exists under the current legal system that largely leaves temples of Christianity and Islam to themselves but taxes and restricts Hindu temples; religious conversion needs to be banned because there is no way to distinguish between voluntary and forced conversion; and more. Too little attention is being paid to the threat of Islamofascism, argues author Vivek; demographic birth and immigration trends that are gradually increasing the percentage of Muslims in India and a Muslim community that is too slow to condemn the pogroms it perpetrates fuel an immediate national crisis. Above all, India's salvation lies in preserving its new legacy of democracy and equality. "Without proper guidance, there is a real danger of Hindutva degenerating into a rampage of revenge. Hindutva is not to be equated with communal riots that kill innocent humans. Hindutva cannot be an ideology that relegates another individual to second-class status. It should be a force that makes all Indians conform to the pluralistic, secular tradition of our land that respects one and all." A passionate and thoughtful call for perspective on hot-button Indian social issues.
Synopsis
The last decade has seen the publication of a plethora of books like Christophe Jaffrelot�s, The Hindu Nationalist Movement in India, Thomas Hansen�s The Saffron Wave and more recently Martha Nussbaum�s The Clash Within that have been highly critical of the Hindu Nationalist Movement in India. This genre of books has been a one-sided, prejudged narration that has failed look at the movement from the Hindu perspective or even accord Hindu Nationalism a fair and scholarly treatment. At times these books have highlighted dubious incidents to put forth their point of view or held up radical fringe elements as representative of Hindu Nationalism. This campaign unfortunately has been sustained by a section of the Indian Diaspora in the United States and it is especially important that the broad American academia and public be made aware of the reality. Lies, Lies and More Lies presents the other side of the story in a balanced manner with tangible proof backed by sound references that puts to paid many of the false innuendoes against Hindu Nationalism that have been bandied around for years; in fact it is inadvertently a point by point counter to many charges found in Nussbaum�s The Clash Within.
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