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Posted At : March 3, 2010 11:16 AM
| Posted By : Ruth Lee
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Enjoyed this book a lot, mostly because I like stories that teach indigenous ways and mores. As you can probably tell by the title, this mystery takes place in the wilds of Alaska—one of my favorite venues for storytelling. Stan does not get women right, but that’s okay, most male writers do not. What does he do wrong? Just makes his women superwomen with very, very strong appetites and, in this case, gets away with it because few of us now any Inuit women, so let’s give him the benefit of the doubt.
Stan Jones is a native of Alaska and lives in Anchorage. As an award-winning journalist he has worked as a bush pilot and is currently the Director of External Affairs for the Prince William Sound Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council. This book is the fourth in the Nathan Active series and he co-authored the non-fiction work: “The Spill: Personal Stories from the Exxon Valdez Disaster.”
Posted At : January 26, 2010 9:14 AM
| Posted By : Ruth Lee
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Delightful reading assembled by the grandson of Diki Tsersing, the Dalai Lama’s mother. His mother collected these stories before her death and we are very fortunate that she did.
Diki Tsersing, loved and revered as the Grandmother of Tibet and honored as the mother of one of the world’s most important spiritual leaders, her story offers an intimate portrait of His Holiness’s beginnings. Very worthwhile reading for all people, but most especially for women.
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Posted At : January 25, 2010 12:29 PM
| Posted By : Ruth Lee
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This book is just coming off the presses, according to our good friends Lynne and Christine, but I think you can order it now. I am interested because I have encountered a dozen clients who had silimar problems when they no longer could compete or play their game.
Dear Ruth - We are celebrating here at LYLP. Our newest book, Success Beyond Sport, by Annette Huygens-Tholen, just rolled off the presses and is making its way out into the world this week!
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Posted At : January 17, 2010 11:36 AM
| Posted By : Ruth Lee
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“Conversations with the Dalai Lama” covers 9 years of in-depth meetings that the author had with the present Dalai Lama of Tibet about the history of that country. I found it so engrossing and wanted to share so much of it with you that I littered the pages with pieces of paper and finally resorted to dog-earing this poor copy in my hands. What a great project for one man of greatness and a sound background in history and life in Asia to undertake. He had the total confidence of the Dalai Lama and his insights and comments about how the Dalai Lama lives now is extremely interesting and helpful in understanding the man. I found this to be more helpful than anything I have read so far and recommend it without reservation to everyone reading this now!
How to decide on a single section of the book to share with you all here? Wow! It changed every few pages, but in the end, I chose the end—the epilogue written by the Dalai Lama himself in a letter to the author, Thomas “Tom” Laird. Please consider reading this impressive work soon.
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Posted At : January 1, 2010 12:42 PM
| Posted By : Ruth Lee
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Well, the news will get out sooner or later, so today I may as well share with everyone here that this May I will be going to Tibet and have to travel through Nepal to get there. When called to visit the largest Buddhist kingdom, Bhutan, I had to travel to India to get there and fell in love with India, which was really a bit of a surprise. This time I hope that will happen as regards Nepal, but one can only hope. There is also the added problem that China is prone to take a fit and not admit anyone into Tibet for reasons never explained and not announced until you are on your way.
Okay, enough about me and on to what I have learned via a really heavy book. It weighs a ton due to so many wonderful color photos put together by the BBC crew filming Palin at the time he traveled all the way across the Himalayas in 2004-5. Much has changed since then, but always good to see what others found and what they thought along the way. Palin is witty and his prose is very interesting. To test his opinions against my own I read the section devoted to Bhutan and thought he got it—well, pretty close anyway. : )
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Posted At : December 29, 2009 10:35 AM
| Posted By : Ruth Lee
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Among my wonderful Christmas gifts was something i wanted to see for myself. I do not spend money on extended cable coverage, preferring to use it to travel, but HBO had a series based on books by Alexander McCall Smith that i wanted to see. How wonderful to receive the first year's programs on DVD!
The reason i am telling you about this particular gift is that they included an offer to receive a complimentary pdf copy of his first book of the long-running series the TV series is based on, "The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency." If you would like to read this book on your computer to get you started, let me know. To learn more about the author and his many books, go to www.AlexanderMcCallSmith.com
Posted At : December 28, 2009 12:33 PM
| Posted By : Ruth Lee
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Edna Buchanan, my all-time favorite Florida writer and Pulitzer prize winner dubbed the “Queen of Crime” by the Los Angeles Daily News, created a masterpiece of deception and continually action in this novel. I loved it and have to say it is a very interesting take on the books by Perry I reviewed here recently and over the years that portray a Native American woman who acts as a Guide helping people escape their lives. This book is different in that two ex-Marines stage death scenes to hide the escape, but I am not going to give anything else away. Get the book and read it for yourself when you need to forget all the stress, all the bothers of modern life, and just have fun reading about the most improbable things that anyone could dream up, sprinkled with tons of actual material gathered over the years Edna reported for the Miami Herald.
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Posted At : December 10, 2009 11:23 AM
| Posted By : Ruth Lee
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Now this is what I call a really great novel! Waited a long time for Perry to write another book about Jane Whitefield, but it was worth the wait. Why? You have to know by now if you read my book reports that I enjoy books grounded in other traditions, particularly tribal. This series is so very unusual in that you find you cannot put the books down once you begin because Jane is a Guide who helps people escape their lives. She is a Seneca and weaves their lore into her ideas and she is just so smart and hep and more feminine than most male writers can ever be when writing for others.
I don’t read Robert B. Parker (not yet) but millions do and he says: “Thomas Perry is, quite simply, brilliant.” That says it all, but you can check him out on Amazon just to make sure. Yes, he has received many awards, including Gumshoe Award for Best Novel, the prestigious Edgar Award and New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He lives in Southern California and that is about all I know. He is a private person, but not nearly as private as his protagonist in this series.
Posted At : December 9, 2009 11:42 AM
| Posted By : Ruth Lee
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No, it’s not about me or Manday! : ) Ever since I ‘wrote’ Angel of The Maya I have been asked lots of questions about how a super model can possibly morph into Ste. Therese, but more on that some other time. This is a recommendation from a friend of ours about the book.
I read a wonderful book on the plane rides by a business man turned Jesuit priest called: “My Life with the Saints.” It is outstanding. It tells the story of this man's spiritual development and saints who mean much to him. Stes. Therese and Bernadette were featured, so it would be a good book for the Paris trip (pilgrimage to the shrines of France in September). I finally can understand the role of the saints and got so much valuable information for my personal life. Many of the stories centered on the need to be yourself, not someone else—flaws and all.
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Posted At : December 5, 2009 10:00 AM
| Posted By : Ruth Lee
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Yes, I just reviewed another of this author’s books a few weeks ago, but that is how I am. : ) When hooked on an author's particular style, I stick with him or her. Loyalty has always been one of my best or worst traits depending upon the situation. With this writer you can’t go wrong no matter which of his novels you read. I like “Mercy Falls” and will provide a peek inside its covers via its mud flap.
“A stunning new suspense novel in William Kent Krueger’s prize-winning Corcoran O’Connor series finds the charismatic detective steeped in his most dangerous case to date.”
Posted At : December 1, 2009 12:46 PM
| Posted By : Ruth Lee
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This time I am not going to tell you what the title means. You’ll have to read it as I did and then sense whatever comes over you then and decide if it is an apt title or not. Most interesting to someone contemplating reading this book is that it is in and about Iceland, a land we know less about that we understand. Such a great writer is bound to be translated sooner or later and I delighted that he was given a chance in the American market now.
Arnaldur Indridason was born in 1961 and worked at an Icelandic newspaper as a journalist and then for many years as a reviewer, so he honed his skills and really learned a lot about keeping readers on edge enough to not want to stop reading until the end. He won the Nordic Crime Novel Aware for “Jar City” and the following year won again for its sequel, “Lady in Green” which will also be published by St. Martin’s Press.
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