The North Umpqua Chronicles The Secret Diary of a Year on the River By Patrick McRae Self Published Paperback $26.95
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
When you ask Patrick McRae of Glide why he subtitled his book “The North Umpqua Chronicles” as the secret diary of a year on the river, he [...]
Naming Nature The clash between instinct and science By Carol Kaesunk Yoon W.W. Norton & C. Hardcover $27.95
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
In my high school years, I was required to take biology. My teacher was Miss Clara Anderson who loved her subject, but hated the classroom. [...]
The Puzzle King By Betsy Carter A novel based on fact Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Hardcover $23.95
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
Betsy Carter grew up thinking her great uncle had invented the board game “Monopoly,” but when she started research to write a novel based on family legend, she discovered [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View from Here
Remember the days when, if you so much as coughed while visiting a library you got a stern shhhh! Have you noticed how libraries aren’t those quiet sanctuaries anymore? Times have changed.
I must confess, I am still awed by the library and hold the institution in total reverence. I even [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
As a college instructor teaching journalism, I was required to give a mid-term and final exam. I remember when I was an undergraduate, I despised instructors who deliberately had trick questions in an exam.
To me, college was about learning not trickery, so my teaching strategy was to keep my exam questions [...]
By BILL DUNCAN The View from Here
It is surprising how you think you know someone and learn from a complete stranger that maybe you don’t know that person at all. I have known and been a close friend and associate of Suzanne Beecher from Sarasota, Fla., for some 10 or more years. [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
It is surprising how you think you know someone and learn from a complete stranger that maybe you don’t know them at all. I have known and been a close friend and associate of Suzanne Beecher from Sarasota, Fla. for some ten or more years. I met Suzanne through the internet [...]
Serenity Prayers Prayers, Poems and Prose to Soothe Your Soul Edited by June Cotner Andrews McMeel Publishing Hardbound $12.99
By BILL DUNCAN
Strange as it may seem, of all the 20 books, mostly about spiritual subjects, June Cotner has written and published, she had never thought about centering on Reinhold Niebuhr’s classic [...]
Hungry: A Mother and Daughter Fight Anorexia By Shelia and Lisa Himmel Berkley Publishing Group Paperback Original $15
By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review
There is nothing new about the eating disorder, anorexia, except we usually hear about it because some celebrity is in the news.
“Hungry,” literally [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
I collect bits and pieces of trivia and recently found an item in a magazine article that intrigued me. The writer thought science should concentrate on developing clothing for men that would automatically disintegrate when it became out of fashion. Otherwise, the writer said men would go on wearing out [...]
