Love Me Tender, The Stories Behind The World’s Best-Loved Songs by Max Cryer; 192 pages; 2008; $16.95; Frances Lincoln Limited, London, England, UK; 978-0-71122-911-2; Checked out from Multnomah County Library, Central; 6/11-6/12 I had at least heard of 34 out of the 40 songs in this thin volume. Most of the songs are old standards [...]
Born in A Small Town; The John Mellencamp Story by Heather Johnson; 216 pages; 2007; $22.95;Omnibus Press, New York, NY; 978-0-8256-7336-8; Checked out from Multnomah County Library, Gresham; 6/10-6/11 As I read this book and as I am writing this review, I opened iTunes and listened to the music of the artist who has had [...]
A Meeting at Corvallis by S.M. Stirling; 498 pages; 2006; $25.95; A Roc Book, New York, NY; 0-451-46111-8; Checked out from Multnomah County Library; 6/9-6/10 I had wondered which of the previous books in the series this would resemble and I was glad to find it was the first one in the trilogy. It seems [...]
Up Till Now, The Autobiography by William Shatner; 358 pages; 2008; $25.95; Thomas Dunne Books, New York, NY; 978-0-312-37265-1; Checked out from Multnomah County Library, Capitol Hill; 6/9/10-6/9/10 Filled with lots of humor, with equal parts pathos and inside information. Once again I have picked up an autobiography that is like sitting with the author [...]
Prayer, Finding the Hearts True Home by Richard J. Foster; 260 pages; 1992; HarperSanFrancisco, San Francisco, CA; 0-06-2846-4; Purchased from Amazon.com after seeing Jim Weisenburg reading it at our Pirates weekend;6/8/10-6/9/10 Richard J. Foster, author of Celebration of Discipline, walks through 21 different kinds of prayer from the simple prayer to radical prayer. So many [...]
