Accidental Cowgirl Six cows, no horse and no clue A Memoir By Mary Lynn Archibald Cloud Lake Publishing Paperback $19.95
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
Everyone has a story to tell just from living. But the key is in the storytelling.
By that paradigm, Mary Lynn Archibald is one great storyteller and her memoir [...]
The Oregon Companion By Richard H. Engeman Timber Press Oversized Paperback $27.95
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
Richard H. Engeman, former historian of the Oregon Historical Society, has written an in encyclopedia style gazetteer beginning with an intriguing story of George
Abernethy, the first and only governor of Oregon’s provisional government that preceded the [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
On the wall in my office there is a framed cartoon drawn by Jake Vest from his cartoon series, “That’s Jake.” You’d have to be a Southerner to understand its message. The cartoon shows the backs of two men sitting at a restaurant counter. Hovering over them is Vest’s character, Jake, [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
Edwin Newman wrote a book in 1974 called “Strictly Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English.” It was such a great book that I made it required reading for the newspaper editorial staff where I was editor.
After I had retired and moved to Oregon and became an editor of [...]
The Associate By John Grisham Doubleday Hardcover $27.95
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
As a media book reviewer, I often receive pre-publication copies of books called Advance Reader Copies. This is a publisher’s ploy to get advance reviews on upcoming books. Currents, as published in The News-Review, is too far down in [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
This Friday will be Friday the 13th, perhaps it is a good time for me to give the Washington bureaucrats some financial advice. All the news says the nation is in financial trouble. I have the solution. Get Uncle Sam an e-mail address.
In no time flat he will solve the [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
The ground hog has come and gone, but winter is far from over, at least not where I live in Oregon. There was frost on the roof when I started writing this column and despite what the old codger found when he poked his head out of his burrow last [...]
