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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven108 reviews
Sherman Alexie

Grove Press, 2005

That's How I Do Life Sometimes By Making The Ordinary Just Like Magic... -Sherman Alexie
Halfway through this book I emailed the friend that bought it for me to tell him how much I was loving it. I then asked him "How the hell am I supposed to review this?" His reply was to explain that "He needs a new star, a category for 'Holy Sh!t, that one hit me hard.' But they don't make the Holy Sh!t category on Amazon." That pretty much says it all. The truth is I was blown away by ... 		  
  







  
  
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead80 reviews
Tom Stoppard

Grove Press, 1994

Absurdly Tragic, Tragically Absurd
This play is such a gem. It has entertained me for years (30 years I believe). I cannot recommend it to enough people. 		  
  







  
  
This Boy's Life: A Memoir137 reviews
Tobias Wolff

Grove Press, 2000

Intriguing...
The memoir is intriguing. Any male who reads this can, at some point, relate to the follies, plunders, and disappointments Wolff encounters during his adolescence. It is explicit and candid making for an interesting read. 		  
  







  
  
The Niagara River: Poems (Grove Press Poetry)2 reviews
Kay Ryan

Grove Press, 2005

Lyrical Modern American Poems
The poetry is contempory and uses traditional elements, such as occational rhyme. Wonderful images and subjects that linger in the mind the day after reading them. 		  
  







  
  
The Gathering (Man Booker Prize)120 reviews
Anne Enright

Grove Press, Black Cat, 2007

Difficulty coming to terms
Anne Enright has written a book that will (and has) spark debates for years to come. Admittedly, this book is not for everyone and more often than not the reader will have to re read it to fully understand what this book is about. I, for one, enjoyed this grim tale of Veronica Hegarty. The backdrop of the story is Irish and we're taken on an arduous journey of a woman trying to escape the ... 		  
  







  
  
Understanding Nursing Research: Building an Evidence-Based Practice5 reviews
Nancy Burns, Susan K. Grove

Saunders, 2006

Nursing Research
Great layout, summary at the end of each chapter. The each chapter begins with a list of outcome goals and terms with page numbers. CD with text is a great reference with quizzes and exams. The accompany website has additional test questions, quizzes and crosswords puzzles for each chapter. (Offers more then some other text on the website). Very glad my instructor chose this text. 		  
  







  
  
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts159 reviews
Samuel Beckett

Grove Press, 1994

Masterpiece of Nothingness
Many parts of this play are comically driven - many are not. And, the majority are neither - or so Beckett may have said as part of his stylistic prank on the reader. Beckett had a target, and he would smile at his target as much as permitted. His dripping dialogue is often interpreted with misinterpretation, misidentification, miscue. That part of the play is resoundingly great. To not have ... 		  
  







  
  
The Six Wives of Henry VIII135 reviews
Alison Weir

Grove Press, 1991

Henry the World-class Glutton
Alison Weir's well-written, easy to read book about the Six Wives of Henry the VIII is an outstanding work of history about England in the 1500s, Henry's six wives, and the role they play in English politics and international relations with Spain, France and Germany. It is definitely a five star work of scholarship and entertainment. 		  
  







  
  
A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book)958 reviews
John Kennedy Toole

Grove Press, 1994

Go Ignatius, GO!
Most folks it seems abhor reading with a near violent, reflexive revulsion. Almost as if the mere suggestion would cause a spontaneous eruption of projectile vomiting directed forthwith at the unfortunate proposer. People just hate to read. But this is a book that could inspire a change of heart in even the most hard-core anti-literate. It's a cliché you've heard a million times before (with a ... 		  
  







  
  
Meditations in an Emergency3 reviews
Frank O'Hara

Grove Press, 1996

"Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again and interesting and modern...
The country is gray and brown and white and trees. Snows and skies of laughter always diminishing. Less funny, not just darker, not just gray. It may be the coldest day of the year. What does he think of that...I mean, what do I? And if I do...perhaps I am myself again." The above was quoted from the voice over narration at the end of the second season premiere of "Mad Men" on ... 		  
  







  
  
Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy40 reviews
Michael Tucker

Grove Press, 2008

Living in a Foreign Language:A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy
I have not yet been fortunate to physically travel to Italy but I can say with certainty that while reading Mr. Tucker's book, I made an intellectual journey to Italy. What a read! I felt as if I was seeing, smelling, touching, tasting every bit that Italy has to offer through the words of Mr. Tucker. Thank you, Mr. Tucker, for taking me along with you. I hope that in the near future my ... 		  
  







  
  
What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada78 reviews
Walpola Rahula

Grove Press, 1974

Foremost book on Buddhism for scholastic rigor and simplicity
This is the foremost book on Buddhism recommended for it's simplicity, authenticity, completeness, and scholastic rigor. If you want to know what Buddhism is really about, rather than what some popular crackpot or charlatan is trying to re-brand as Buddhism these days, this is the book to read. It is written with non-Buddhists curious about Buddhism in mind, and is suitable for use in ... 		  
  







  
  
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education23 reviews
Michael Pollan

Grove Press, 2003

Lawn Mowing et al
Pollans description of what is a green thumb and the sysiphean art of mowing reminded me how therapeutic gardening can be and why it cures depression. Thank you Michael for making me look at my roses in a totally different way. You will love this book if you tend to think in pictures and love the art and hard work of gardening. 		  
  







  
  
The Inheritance of Loss147 reviews
Kiran Desai

Grove Press, 2006

Ultimately disappointing
The Inheritance Of Loss by Kiran Desai is a magnificent, impressive novel that ultimately is disappointing. As a process, the book is almost stunningly good. As a product, it falls short. The book's language, scenarios and juxtapositions are funny, threatening, vivid and tender all at the same time. The comic element, always riven through with irony, is most often to the fore, as characters ... 		  
  







  
  
The Wretched of the Earth29 reviews
Frantz Fanon

Grove Press, 2005

Understand the Psychology of Violent Revolt
This was required reading for a graduate course in the Humanities. Frantz Fanon (July 20, 1925 - December 6, 1961) was a Martinique-born French author and essayist. He was perhaps the preeminent thinker of the 20th century on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization. His works have inspired anti-colonial liberation movements for more than four decades. "The ... 		  
  







  
  
The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the ...210 reviews

Grove Press, 2006

The Long Emergency
An excellent argument that we are at or approaching the peak oil production plateau, and speculates on the drastic future we may expect. Well done. Provokes a lot of thought about how one should adapt to eventually intolerable circumstances! 		  
  







  
  
Elephant Rocks: Poems3 reviews
Kay Ryan

Grove Press, 1997

Kay Ryan is the best poet now at work in America.
Once every couple of generations, an original thinker manages to refresh an art form that had seemed exhausted. Kay Ryan has done this with poetry. Her poems rhyme--but not in the ways and places you expect. They're metrical--but only according to the author's own quirky standard. They're short, tight, and disciplined--and yet they allow language to sprawl and luxuriate. Best of all, they're ... 		  
  







  
  
The Practice of Nursing Research: Conduct, Critique, & Utilization10 reviews
Nancy Burns, Susan Grove

Saunders, 2004

A "know why" and know "how to" conduct research
This text is required for my doctoral level quantitative research course. I have been busy actively learning (actual data analysis & critique). For the first time I feel that research can become a reality. It's too bad this text did not cross my path 10 years ago as the beginning point for previous research courses. The text is not a difficult read. The excerpts from actual research and visuals ... 		  
  







  
  
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text237 reviews
William S. Burroughs

Grove Press, 2004

fadeout
I finished this book only a few weeks ago and writing this only now because it left me speechless for so long. Yes, I am going to be one of those people that call and consider this book and it's author genius and visionary. I cannot say too much, it is a kind of book that you read and find great but when people ask you why you cannot say a damn word. It is breath taking, wonderful and all this ... 		  
  







  
  
Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent ...199 reviews
George Crile

Grove Press, 2007

Engaging Read
It's no wonder that the book took some 15 years in the making. Crile did extensive research with this book and it shows. I read this book this past weekend, while on vacation and thoroughly enjoyed it. It read like a fictional piece of international intrigue, yet it was based on real events and real people. Crile wrote a great book that could have been written like an academic tome (dry), ... 		  
  







  




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