Category Archives: reviews

Okelle’s guide to online shopping for curvy ladies

Posted on August 1, 2012 by

Despite the fact that my blog is mostly devoted to poetry and other arcane topics, the top search term bringing people here lately is “North Style.” Back in April I posted a strongly worded letter to North Style — a … Continue reading →

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Open Letter to North Style

Posted on April 26, 2012 by

Dear NorthStyle folks: About once or twice a year I receive a catalog from your fine establishment. I’m a big mail-order shopper, so it’s very appropriate that you would send me one. Each time I receive it, I think “hmmmm… … Continue reading →

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Review: Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919, by Stephen Puleo

Posted on August 26, 2011 by

This review of Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919, by Stephen Puleo is re-posted from my Goodreads feed. Puleo does a fairly admirable job of extracting a living tale from dry court records and newspaper accounts of … Continue reading →

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Restrepo

Posted on June 2, 2011 by

Restrepo is the name of a man, an American man, killed in Afghanistan. His brothers took the valley, killed more men, and named the valley after him. All the men and women, children, goats, and cows who lived and died … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Sword of the Lord, by Andrew Himes

Posted on May 26, 2011 by

With his newly released book Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family, Andrew Himes creates a history that is both well-researched and deeply personal. It’s a history that’s about more than dates and place-names. It’s … Continue reading →

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Interview with Andrew Himes, author of Sword of the Lord

Posted on May 10, 2011 by

Publishing houses have been complaining about losing money since the dawn of the printing press. For about that long, authors have been complaining about how hard it is to make it into print. Many more authors make it into print … Continue reading →

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Review: In the Hope of Rising Again

Posted on January 19, 2011 by

Reposted from Goodreads (http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/141961890) Helen Scully’s prose is lush and fluid, like the flood waters of the Mississippi. She sweeps you through three generations of the Riant family, from the golden days of the Civil War hero founder through its … Continue reading →

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Review: Wife of the Gods

Posted on September 10, 2010 by

Wife of the Gods: A Novel by Kwei Quartey My rating: 4 of 5 stars I found Quartey’s description of the divide between city and country culture in Ghana eerily similar to the same divide that exists in the USA. … Continue reading →

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Best answer to tensions between Muslims and Christians ever

Posted on August 21, 2010 by

I declare that I do not give a damn about sheep or fish, Arabs or Christians, the East or the West, Carthage or Rome, [...] Jerusalem or Sodom, Cairo or Saint Petersburg, Saint John or Judas, foreskin or anus, virgins … Continue reading →

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Paganism on Speaking of Faith

Posted on June 15, 2008 by

Army Guy called me from the road to tell me about a show playing right now on WBUR: an interview of an ecologist and pagan on the public radio show Speaking of Faith. It focuses on paganism, with an interview … Continue reading →

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