Title: Straight From the Donkey’s Mouth Author: Eleni Trataris Cotton Genre: Travel Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd Release Date: November 14, 2014 Pages: 200 Although Eleni Trataris Cotton's Straight from the Donkey's Mouth is a work of fiction, it almost reads like a travelogue and gives a good view of the present day Greece and its problems. The events of this amusing and delightful piece of fiction take place in Greece. The present...
Review: Reading Chaucer’s Poems: A Guided Selection by Bernard O’Donoghue
Title: Reading Chaucer's Poems: A Guided Selection Author: Bernard O'Donoghue Publisher: Faber & Faber The volume contains extracts from most of Chaucer's major works along with short introductions to the poems and adequate glossaries with word meanings appended at the end of each chapter. My Rating: ★★★★☆ Geoffrey Chaucer’s poems are not easily accessible to the modern readers. His language presents an immediate difficulty...
Review: Why We Work by Barry Schwartz
Title: Why We Work Author: Barry Schwartz Genre: Business & Economics Publisher: Simon and Schuster Release Date: September 1, 2015 Pages: 112 Barry Schwartz's Why We Work seeks to challenge the myth that human beings work only for material gains. Barry Schwartz’s Why We Work seeks to challenge the myth that human beings work only for material gains. In this small 88-page book the author, who teaches psychology at Swarthmore College,...
Review: Write Back Soon by Karen Benke
Title: Write Back Soon Author: Karen Benke Publisher: Roost Books Write Back Soon! is a collection of letter-writing ideas with many chapters of the book containing a "post-card sized prompt" that would nudge you to start writing with a pen and paper again. My Rating: ★★★★☆ In his 17 September 1819 letter to George and Georgiana Keats, John Keats wrote:”All clean and comfortable, I sit down to write.” This simple short phrase, from...
Review: Larousse Concise French-English Dictionary
Title: Anglais Dictionnaire/French Dictionary: Francais-Anglais, Anglais-Francais/French-English, English-French Author: Larousse Genre: Foreign Language Study Publisher: Larousse Editions Release Date: 2011 Pages: 1440 Thus, in this Concise French-English Dictionary Larousse has stood up to its tradition of providing the learners and readers of both French and English with a delightfully convenient practical tool. Larousse’s pocket-sized...
Review: Tips, Tools & Tactics: For Getting Your Book Reviewed by Kellie Sheridan
Title: Tips, Tools, & Tactics for Getting your Book Reviewed Author: Kellie Sheridan Publisher: Weapenry Tips, Tools & Tactics explains for the new writers some of the ways in which they can get more exposure for their titles before and immediately after the book release and it provides all these in a nutshell. My Rating: ★★★☆☆ Kellie Sheridan’s Tips Tools & Tactics: For Getting Your Book Reviewed is a small e-book of 33 pages...
