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By: Finch, Charles
Set in London in 1865, it’s true to the language and milieu (as far as I can tell) and has an amalgam of elements of the classic British detective story and 19th century novel: an aristocratic amateur detective and his valet, gentlemen’s clubs, old boys, country houses and town houses, balls and bridge and afternoon tea. The London winter is palpable and the understated romance between sleuth and lady sweet.
Reviewer: Janice Duff
By: Morris, Willie
One of many fine books by this quasi-native son, The Courting of Marcus Dupree chronicles the feverish college recruitment of a promising high school football player in the early ‘80s. Willie Morris, an editor of the Daily Texan in the 50’s, after a stint in The Big Apple returned home to Mississippi and found this story there. It’s more than the story of a high school football star and his family working their way through the tangle of possibilities and promises offered in the recruitment process. It’s a look into the soul of this town where twenty years before three young civil rights workers had been murdered.
Reviewer: Janice Duff
By: Burns, Walter Noble
Billy the Kid is the subject of many books and movies. Bob Dylan, called by one of our English faculty “the American Homer,” wrote the music for one of movies. Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient, wrote a book of poems and vignettes in Billy’s stead. I doubt our interest in Billy would have thrived so if not for Burns’ book, published in 1926 and based on accounts of people living then who had known Billy. Burns creates such a sympathetic character and tells the story so well, not wanting to go to sleep with Billy’s end on my mind, I had to stop reading just before the death scene.
Reviewer: Janice Duff
By: Reed, Pam
Those who’d rather go for a run before breakfast, or who want to know why anyone would, can find some insight here. Pam Reed is an ultra-runner, one of those who run races of 100+ miles. After such a run, in the dessert, she will eat, sleep, wake up and – yes, you guessed it – go for a little run, a short one with a friend, maybe 4 or 5 miles. Whether you’re a marathoner or a couch potato, you will be amazed by this woman’s drive.
Reviewer: Janice Duff
By: Salter, James
If you’re looking for a gift for the cook, or a good little read with your morning tea, you can’t do better than this collection of offerings
from a couple’s lifetime of reading and cooking. A portrait of big eater Diamond Jim Brady, the development of the microwave, pitting an olive, a homily on gleaning – one for every day of the year, and each entry gives pleasure.
Reviewer: Janice Duff
