The Geography of LoveA MemoirBy GLENDA BURGESSBroadway BooksA division of Random HouseHardcover $22.95
By BILL DUNCANThe News-Review
To write a memoir is a heroic act in itself. To write a memoir as personal as “The Geography of Love,” is a pure gift to readers. Glenda Burgess’ memoir is a very personal love story [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
If you live long enough everything comes back to you. I actually heard my son, Jack, who is in his late 30s and part of the computer age generation, admit he couldn’t open one of those plastic sealed packages that are so annoying to us old [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
The high cost of fuel isn’t all bad. If what I read in the daily newspaper is correct, today’s school children will someday be able to tell their grandchildren they had to walk to school five miles to school in hip deep snow. The bold headline [...]
American Savior A novel of divine politics By Ronald Merullo Hard cover $24.95 Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
The reading public is saturated with back biting politics, so Ronald Merullo’s “American Savior,” a satire on the Presidential race is a welcome relief. He [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
Memorial services don’t necessarily have to be held in a church or even in a building. Weldon Thomas Heard, 86, a veterinarian and a noted expert on poultry, who died Saturday, July 26, at his farm in Lookingglass, wanted his service in his son, Rex’s [...]
On Friday, August 1, 2008, the Elder Statesman wrote a guest column for Suzanne Beecher, who writes a daily column for her DearReader.Com online book club, a national club for her on-line readers of her weekly offerings of excerpts from books. This is the column and the e-mail responses from readers:
Dear Reader,
My friend Bill Duncan [...]
Getting Older Still Ain’t for Wimps Help Lord! I’m Having a Senior Moment By Karen O’Connor Paperbacks both books for $15.95 Guideposts Publishers
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
Karen O’Connor knows the secret of aging gracefully is humor and in this twin offering of her new [...]
Bart Bigfoot and The Red Fox By Jo Barnes Illustrated by David Ewart Paperback $12 Bravado Publishing
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
If there was one incentive for Jo Barnes of Sutherlin to write a children’s book, it came in the form of eight grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. It is her legacy [...]
New Stories from the South A Literary Anthology Edited by ZZ Packer Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Quality Paperback $14.95 By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
In 1968, John A. Burrison edited an anthology for the University of Georgia simply called "Storytellers: Folktales and Legends from the South," in which he [...]
Oregon 1859: A Snapshot in Time By Janice Marschner Timber Press, Inc. Quality Paperback $27.95
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
Next Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, 2009, Oregon will celebrate 150 years of statehood. That first year of statehood is captured in what Janice Marschner calls a "time-traveler’s guide" to that first year [...]
