The Brass VerdictBy Michael ConnellyLittle Brown Co.Hardcover $26.99
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
Sometimes how a writer begins his story reaches out and grabs the reader and never lets go until he’s reached the end of the book. Michael Connelly does that with his 19th suspense novel in which he brings back two of [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
Did you ever think about the definition of the word, “transparency” that has lately become a government buzz word? I thought I knew what it meant, at least in photography, but I wasn’t sure, in political terms, exactly what all these talking heads were trying to convey and it sounded [...]
By BILL DUNCAN The View From Here
Enough is enough. Back on Feb. 2nd, Punxsutawney Phil, weather prognosticator extraordinare, stuck his head out of his burrow, saw his shadow and left us with six more weeks of cold and wintry weather. If I count the weeks right, the six weeks are up and it is still [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
The Oregon State University/Master Food Preservers is offering a new class in its “In the Kitchen” series at the Sutherlin Community Center this week, but I think I will skip it. The class is a how-to for baking a chocolate cake.
Don’t misunderstand me. These classes are great and I even [...]
Wicked Plants A book of botanical atrocities By Amy Stewart Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Hardbound $18.95 To be released May 2009
By BILL DUNCAN
When my son Barry, now 52, was under a year old, I was working for a morning newspaper in Los Angeles and had just bought a hilltop [...]
Knit Together By Debbie Macomber Hachette Book Group Hardcover $22.99 Paperback $13.99 A non-fiction memoir-style book
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
I am the token male member of the Sunday Afternoon Book Club, therefore I have read many chick books selected by the membership. Not all, by any means, have been romance novels, [...]
