By BILL DUNCAN
The View From Here
Here it is the last few days of November and it is time for me to drag out the storage boxes containing over 100 Nativity scenes that I have collected over the years and display throughout my house during the [...]
The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen A novel By Syrie James Avon A, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Paperback Original $13.95
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
There are not enough allocades I could use to recommend this book to any serious reader. That [...]
The Ghost at the Table
By Suzanne Berne
A Shannon Ravenel Book
Algobquin Paperback $13.95
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
Years ago in my naive youth as a police reporter covering the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s office beat, a sheriff’s lieutenant told me that law enforcement hates Thanksgiving [...]
The Read Aloud Handbook By Jim Trelease A Penguin Book Quality Paperback $15
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
This is not a new book in the sense of a recently published volume, but it is a new release of a book by Jim Trelease that dates back to the [...]
A Prince among Dogs and other stories of the Dogs We Love Edited by Callie Smith Grant Revell Publishers Paperback $12.99
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
I still have in my photographic memory a journalism professor saying a half century ago that anytime a reporter wrote a story involving [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
As a Scottish Presbyterian one would never doubt predestination, but who in their right mind would have ever figured this dance could have lasted 57 years and going on into eternity. It all started when a journalism professor, Lee B. McConnonville, a retired Los Angeles [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
As we approach next Thursday when most of the nation will stuff itself with the bounty of a Thanksgiving feast, I wonder how many will actually be thankful in more than just rote rhetoric. I might be a little more thankful this year, because I [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
When I started changing out of my causal clothes into a dressy outfit Saturday, my wife inquired, "where are you going?" I said to a Memorial Service for Mark Twain.
Knowing me well after 57 years of marriage, she didn’t question me further. Indeed that is exactly [...]
Playing for Pizza
A novel
By John Grisham
Doubleday Publishers
Hardbound $21.95
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
As certain as I am that it is going to rain in Oregon in the next few days, I am just as [...]
Book Review Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A year of food life By Barbara Kingsolver with Stephen L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver HarperCollins Publishers Hardcover $26.95
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
If you are thinking this is a typical novel from the prolific pen of Barbara Kingsolver you are in for [...]
