By BILL DUNCAN The View From Here
Yes, I know today is Halloween, but this column is not meant to scare you, although it is my take on the economy, something with which all the talking heads have tried to frighten you of late. I am a Depression kid. I grew up in the heart of [...]
The Meaning of Everything
The story of the Oxford English Dictionary
By Simon Winchester
Oxford University Press
Hardcover $25
By BILL DUNCAN
The News-Review
Simon Winchester’s latest book, “The Meaning of Everything,” isn’t the first one he has written how the famous Oxford English dictionary came into being. But this volume is a more comprehensive look than his earlier book, “The Professor [...]
Senior Days Insightful tales and No-nonsense Help from the frontlines of Eldercare By Colleen Nichol with Brian Nichol Long Lake Press Paperback $14.95
By BILL DUNCAN The Senior Times
Colleen Nichol wrote the book “Senior Days” from experience and the heart. She is an in-home senior care companion. She kept telling [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
I am always amazed at how stories take on a life of their own through the internet and e-mails.
No matter how cleverly they are written, they remain anonymous. I think anonymous has become a synonym for plagiarism.
Back in the other century, I got an e-mail from some reader sending me [...]
Reading Magic Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever By Mem Fox Harcourt Books Paperback $12
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
If Mem Fox has her way, all children will be reading before they enter school. How? By being [...]
Greasy Rider Two Dudes, one fry-oil-powered car, and a cross-country search for a greener future By Greg Melville Algonguin Books Trade Paperback Original $15.95 Release date Oct. 21
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
Greg Melville, a freelance journalist, and his friend, Iggy, drive a beat-up 1985 Mercedes station wagon converted to use vegetable oil for fuel from [...]
By BILL DUNCAN View From Here
In September of 1968 this nation was deeply embroiled in the Vietnam War. A young Navy doctor, Dr. D. Douglas Henning, was serving in Vietnam with the Marines where part of his duties was to provide health care to the Vietnamese villagers. A Vietnamese soldier brought a frail, sickly 17-month-old [...]
A History of ReadingBy Steven Roger FischerPart three of a trilogyReaktion BooksHardcover, $29.95Quality Paperback $17.95
By BILL DUNCANThe News-Review
If you believe the naysayers who see the death of the written word because of computers, you have to remember they also said that with the invention of radio, then really put the death seal on reading when [...]
Editor’s note: Bill Duncan, who normally writes the weekly column, The View From Here for The Capital Press. is on a writing assignment this week. His wife, Ada, who is also a writer, thought readers would like to have a different viewpoint than his usual musings. She is writing his column this week.
By ADA GRACE DUNCAN
The View From Here [...]
By BILL DUNCAN The View From Here
Back in September I wrote a review on Deborah Copahen Kogan’s just released book, “Between Here and April,” in which the famous photojournalist wrote a novel about why a mother would kill her own children. The book highlighted the stress mothers are under in the burdens of child rearing [...]
