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Picturing the Wreck
Dani Shapiro
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Good intentions, falls a little short on execution.......2005-02-19
This is the story of Solomon Grossman, a Jewish psychoanalyst in his sixties who is looking back on a critical lapse some thirty years before when he gave in to the temptations of a beautiful female patient and crossed way over the professional doctor-patient line. The result of his mistake is loss of job, career (for a time), wife, and son. And self-respect. His life has been a mess ever since, and he is a conflicted mess of denial, self-loathing and loneliness, despite climbing back into the psychiatric world in New York. By a combination of flashbacks and present day narration, we witness Solomon making an ill-timed entrance back into his son's life. Sadly, the son, from whom he was separated at the son's infancy, has also made a successful mess of his life.
What follows are some tender moments of father-son reunion and a measure of reconciliation. This part felt a little rushed and contrived, with the son's transformation from estrangement to intimacy seeming to play out in just a day or two. Perhaps that is possible, but there was something a little inauthentic about it.
I did like the book and admired that the writer was able to make "action" play second fiddle to the emotional development of the characters. Not a great work, but still one to be appreciated.
"Wreck" explores alienation, isolation and estrangement.......2004-02-11
Dani Shapiro fuses personal isolation and professional catastrophy in her contemplative, nuanced "Picturing the Wreck." Her novel focuses on Solomon Grossman, an escapee from the Holocaust, whose adult life reflects emotional wreckage and extreme isolation. A psychotherapist, Grossman committed the cardinal sin of having sexual contact with one of his patients, and that pivotal moment ruined his marriage and removed his one-year-old son from his life. Now, some thirty years later, Grossman seeks reconnection, not only with his absent son, Daniel, but with his own soul.
Shapiro tightly interweaves present and past in "Wreck," and her unsentimental, spare style encourages identification with Solomon while eliciting sympathy with Daniel. Never at peace with himself about his past actions and constantly numbed by the withering impact of Holocaust loss, Solomon has reconstructed his professional life after his loss of job and respect but has never overcome the emptiness engenedered by self-reproach. The strength of the novel is its involvement with the internal life of Solomon; its weakness is a contrived and mawkish conclusion.
Any parent who has suffered either spiritual or physical separation from a beloved child will respond to Solomon's perpetual sadness. Nothing can abate his ever-present sense of failure and loss. Sequestered in a tightly-controlled environment (he even alphabatizes the books in his psychology library), his days given to "curing" others, Solomon receives little satisfaction and even less solace from his profession. In fact, therapy mocks his own failure and flaws. This intelligent, broken man even lacks the energy and courage to seek out his son, instead discovering him on a television news broadcast.
Shapiro handles the eventual reunion and subsequnet rediscovery of father and son with care. Ironically, it is the son who bestows upon the father the blessing of love and connection. Despite years of anticipation and emotional preparation, Solomon is unprepared for the impact of reconnection. Daniel is dealing with his own wreckage...a failed marriage and a life of existential wandering, and his realizations that he has a father, that his father is alive and that his father has loved him are deeply moving. However, Shapiro seems not to know what to do next, and her decision as to the disposition of each character saps "Wreck" of its intial hard-edged strength.
A good book...but too short.......2003-06-19
The only thing bad about this book is it is too short. It seems that just as the story starts to pull together it is over...unfortunately this is how life is as it is protrayed in this book. The main character is a complex sympathetic lecharous holocaust victim who cherished the year he had with his son until his wife left him. Thirty years later he sees his son on a television news report and rushes cross country to meet his son. I don't want to give away the book but I will tell you that their reunion is bittersweet.
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Midshipwizard Halcyon Blithe
James M. Ward
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Halcyon Blithe, being a young man of good breeding and lineage as well as endowed with those qualities and abilities of a sorcerous nature and wishing to fulfill his full potential, is ready to assume his proper place in the world. He aims to seek his fortune among those who tend and sail the awesome nautical juggernauts-the dragonships. With this in mind, Blithe gladly accepts his rank as Midshipwizard and becomes a member of the crew who man the dragonships-vessels which harness the bodies and strength of living dragons with seafaring technology.
Combining elements of Hornblower with Harry Potter, and Robert Louis Stevenson with Robin Hobb, Midshipwizard Halcyon Blithe is a nautical tale rich in magic and intrigue. A tale set against a panorama of fantastic naval battle as we follow the career of a young midshipwizard as he moves up through the ranks of His Majesty's Navy.
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Learning the art of War........2007-06-25
16 year old Midshipwizard Halcyon Blithe is on his first voyage in the Navy after having finally come into his Wizard's abilities 8 months ago. He comes from a respectable family with a long history of honourable service in the Navy.
While really written for teens, like so much of today's fantasy, this book is still an enjoyable read if you like your fantasy novels on the high seas. Halcyon learns some valuable lessons in this novel which starts us with his career in the Navy in a war which has been in progress for well over 20 years.
This novel is an enjoyable introduction to this series and I hope to read more of this young man in future books. The book is an easy read, but its not a book of great depth in worldbuilding.
Good Combination of Magic & Tall Ships.......2007-05-13
I enjoyed the way the author combined magic with Napoleon era fighting ships. The ships made on the backs of dragons made the story line interesting.
Adventure on the high seas!.......2006-10-30
I am a great lover of fantasy and of adventure novels such as the Hornblower series. I read this book thinking it would be a great and original combination of these to genre . . . and I was correct. I really liked the story and characters in this book. The action kept a good pass and the author did not waste time explain parts of Halcyon's world that we really didn't need to know about. A fantstic concept and a really good read! I recommend it for people who love fantasy and dragons in particular and people who love old time adventure novels. You will not be disappointed.
Very poor effort.......2006-06-06
I am a fantasy fan and a nautical fiction fan, so I thought this book would be just the thing for me. The concept is good, but the dialog is extremely wooden, the characters are lifeless and the plot is uninteresting.
Maybe the next one will be better, but the author is really going to have to work quite a bit
Flying at Half-Mast.......2006-04-12
Harry Potter meets the Royal Navy is the premise of this new fantasy. I found it shelved in science fiction/fantasy, but it will have strong appeal to younger readers. Given the overall tone of the writing, I suspect this may be its true market, though fans of historical sailing adventures will also be intrigued. My overall impression is more favorable than the comments that follow may seem to indicate. The concept is great, but the execution flags a bit.
Halcyon Blithe is a serviceable protagonist and the events of his first posting, encounters with the crew, etc. are well handled, if a bit clich?; a certain amount of clich? and stereotype are de rigueur in the sailing genre. However, nearly 180 of the 286 novel pages float by before there is any sign of a proper conflict. Most of this is spent orienting readers to everyday life on a sailing ship. Fans of Hornblower & company have been here before, but new readers to the genre may benefit. Blithe's fellow midshipmen are introduced all in one early scene--very promising characters all--but most names are forgotten by the time they play any significant role. As the enemy, the Maleen are rather iconic boogeymen, just so many ducks in a shooting gallery. I expect to see them developed further in sequels.
Ward does a fantastic job with the minutia of sailing and combat at sea. Readers familiar with the tactics and doctrines of Napoleonic naval warfare will appreciate this, but I felt the veneer of fantasy was far too thin. The doctrines of Arcana (British) and the enemy Maleen (French/Spanish) are blatantly obvious to fans of C. S. Forester, Dudley Pope, Patrick O'Brian, and Alexander Kent. I'd like to have seen more imagination at work here. Yet he goes overboard on imagination in the explanation of how the dragonships are designed. This seemed too glib and fanciful to suit me--biologically improbable and impractical.
Ther are nearly 10 pages of songs/sea shanties in the text. Yes, they really sang this sort of thing in days of old, but with no clue as to melody, the songs read as so much nautical blather. A little of this goes a long way--maybe one or two verses at most. Better yet, tie the lyrics into the story with foreshadowing or metaphor. I liked the Articles of War serving as chapter introductions. The chapter titles were a very nice touch--perfect for this type of novel and a practice sadly out of fashion.
Despite the flaws, what this book does well is prime younger readers and perhaps those not familiar with the Hornblower milieu, with a great deal of sailing lore, and ready them for further adventures.
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Very Disappointing.......2007-01-17
Jame Retief, galactic diplomat of the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne is Keith Laumer's most enduring and popular character, whose adventures span eighteen novels and anthologies. Retief is a roguish figure, preferring to use his wits and creativity in solving problems, rather than his not-inconsiderable brawn. He is hampered by the machinations of the other diplomats of the CDT, most of whom are only in the job to look out for number one - only Retief's presence allows the good guys to have justice at the end.
Unfortunately for Retief fans, Mr. Laumer suffered a stroke in 1971 which severely impacted his writing ability. Some few books published after 1971 were actually plotted and written in outline before the stroke, but most of Mr. Laumer's works published after 1971 show the deleterious effects the stroke had on his writing. It is almost as if the Retief books were ghost-written by a writer chosen more for his ability to satisfy deadlines than his ability to write Retief the way it should be written - gone is the devious cunning and sophistication of the character at his best, to be replaced by a reliance on his muscle, and a habit of ceding center stage to the pedantic bureaucrats higher up the CDT food-chain.
Retief and the Rascals is no exception. The second chapter reads more like a too-long Three Stooges or Abbot and Costello routine than a piece of Retief's carefully-planned diplomacy. Instead of good planning and efficient research, Retief attacks his problems with two fists and a few lame rejoinders. Jokes that were only funny the first time propagate throughout the book, such as the facial expression classification system or the use of stilted writing to reflect picayune dialects. And old-standby characters, such as Retief's officious and ineffectual boss Mr. Magnan (whose purpose in the early stories is to form an obstacle to Retief's attempt to find the best possible solution) has more to say than Retief does.
It takes actual digging to get to the meat of the story, which is never a good thing. The story itself, which concerns various attempts by different individuals inside and outside the Corps to loot money from a fund earmarked for developing worlds, is not enough to sustain the entire novel; this would have made a decent short story. Sadly, I can't recommend this novel to any but the most die-hard Retief fans.
Retief gets burnout.......1998-03-27
The Retief stories by Laumer are for the most part light-hearted, fast-paced fun reads. "Retief and the Rascals" is none of the above. My only explanation is that Laumer was under pressure to produce another Retief story, and was forced to write this one while suffering acute dyspepsia.
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Nantucket cookbook.......2007-05-16
I bought it in 1984, then misplaced it, I liked the recipes, and with Summer coming, decided to by it again
Fantastic, Fresh & Fun Recipes!!.......2006-08-14
Ms. Chase has a fresh, innovative style in her writing and recipes. I enjoyed reading this book as well as trying out some of the yummy, creative dishes. As I was researching Ina Garten's website, I discovered that Ina herself finds this cookbook to be indispensible in her own food preparation and also in sparking her culinary creativity. If Ina says it's good, it's gotta be good!!!
Great Cook Book.......2006-08-05
What a great cook book full of good ideas for entertaining. The recipes are unique and easy to follow. This is a go-to book for potlucks and parties.
Happy again.......2006-07-12
I lost almost all of my cook book collection to hurricane Katrina. This is the book that I replaced first! I was so happy to find it here at Amazon since I have been looking for it for awhile. The recipes are those that I use over and over and they never fail to please.....Ms. Chase has a wonderful way with food that is both comforting and elegant. You will enjoy this book!
Perfect entertaining recipes.......2006-01-23
Looking for interesting foods, lush ingredients, reliable recipes? Sara Leah Chase has it in her blood; these recipes are perfect in their uniqueness, but are so do-able. The comments prefacing each recipe are helpful, and bring back many memories of my 15 Nantucket summers. Her recipes often include traditional foods with an inventive, flavorful twist. This book is also just plain enjoyable to read. Chase's attitude is Good Food + Warm Hospitality = Memorable Times. Best recipes: hummous, scallop puffs, swordfish kebabs, duck breast w/ grilled radicchio, cranberry-kumquat relish...and every dessert.
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Traveling With Your Pet - The AAA PetBookr is a comprehensive guide to traveling with pets, providing practical information about traveling with animals by car or plane. It features a list of emergency clinics throughout the United States and Canada, national parks that accept pets and other pet-friendly points of interest, such as dog parks throughout North America, and more than 12,000 AAA-RATEDr pet-friendly lodgings. Plus, each lodging listing includes important information about the property, its rates and key amenities, driving directions, AAA member discount information, and pet-specific policies about fees, restrictions and pet amenities.
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Pet-friendly lodging.......2006-08-03
AAA does the same quality job with the pet travel book as with their famous tour books names, locations, specifics, fees etc. Very helpful.
Don't waste your money; get the free guide, which will let you know what.......2005-07-10
places allow pets. All this book does is list all the places that allow pets in the whole country in one publication, with a few pages that explain what to look out for.
Good in a PINCH, but not IDEAL.......2005-06-09
If you are looking for the free AAA travel guides with the "NO DOGS ALLOWED" lodging REMOVED, this book is worth the buy.
If you are expecting restaurants, pooch friendly stores, lots of parks, emergency vets, etc., try a state-specific guide (i.e. Canine Oregon). I think petswelcome.com even surpasses this guide in terms of real dog friendly lodging (you know "tolerates" vs. "embraces").
If you and the pooch are going cross-country with no planning and no internet, this is good in a pinch (just as their free guides are), but if you are looking for a day-tripping or neato-places planning guide...I suggest you look at the book before buying.
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OK, Just Not Very Pretty.......2002-09-20
This is a great volume, for the reasons the other reviewers have sited. I just didn't care for her style because it seems too amateurish. It was not something I would want to imitate.
great resource for creating stencilled trompe l'oeil.......2002-04-09
This is a terrific resource for getting you started on trompe l'oeil stencilling. The book has MANY photographs and drawings to illustrate technique and finished objects and, after several introductory chapters that focus on the use of stencils and paint effects, is organized into a series of projects. Within the context of these seven specific projects the author describes various techniques, such as using a multi-overlay stencil, shading, stippling, creating woodgrain, pitfalls to avoid, freeform stencilling, etc. Each project is accompanied by a pattern that can be enlarged on a photocopier and then used to make the stencils you'll need to complete the project. The projects described are a rose border, teddy bear, keys, grapevine, shelf with crockery, umbrella plant and marble fruit bowl.
EXCELLENT!.......2000-06-30
It is a book u would like to own. Contains step by step stencling instructions & very good illustrations too. Painting instructions like overlaying & many beautiful designs have been provided in the back of the book. THis book has also covered the 3D stenciling with attractive designs & innovative ideas. U can just paint every where u want to.
EXCELLENT!.......2000-06-30
It is a book u would like to own. Contains step by step stencling instructions & very good illustrations too. Painting instructions like overlaying & many beautiful designs have been provided in the back of the book. THis book has also covered the 3D stenciling with attractive designs & innovative ideas. U can just paint every where u want to.
Tromp Loeil using stencils.......2000-05-16
WOW! This book packed so much in for so little. It is perfect for any one intrested in Tromp L'oeil and feels they can't draw or paint freehand. If you can draw this will expand your library in a positive way. There are over 150 pictures all step by step lots of stencils to cut out most have overlays wich make the picture look handpainted, since the overlays eliminate the bridges. A lot of fun will be had with this book
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Early American Decorating Techniques: Step-by-Step Directions for Painting and Stenciling
Mariette Paine Slayton
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Comprehensive guide includes 27 authentic, ready-to-use, full-size patterns for restoring and decorating trays, tinware, boxes, rockers, chairs, walls, and more. Complete instructions.
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Fantastic reference book.......1999-05-14
M.P.Slayton's collection of patterns and tips in her EARLY AMERICAN DECORATING TECHNIQUES publication is a "must" for anyone who enjoys creating and painting in this style. With the instructions and color illustrations of this book, it would be possible to become self-taught in freehand bronze, theorem and other forms of stenciling. Tinsel painting (or reverse painting on glass) is covered as well as techniques in gold leaf. Slayton begins her book with the basics of strokework and walks you through to the finishing steps of varnishing and handrubbing.The book is divided into 3 sections. While the first 2 concentrate on technique, the last section (approx. 100 pgs) contains numerous full-size patterns of Early American designs.Decorative painters need more resource and referral books such as this one!
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Decorative ideas to transform the home, with a fabulous range of original, popular and easy-to-achieve stencil effects.
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- Walls, Floors, Cabinets, Doors....leave nothing unstenciled!
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Decorating With Stencils: Innovative Designs : Step-By-Step Instructions : Templates
Tony Roche , and
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Manufacturer: Abbeville Press
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Much plusher than most stenciling guides, this volume is filled with gorgeous stenciled rooms, complete directions, and templates for each pattern (about 30 in all). Refreshingly, there's barely a floral among them; instead there are marvelous historically inspired designs: heraldic, high Victorian, "Moderne," Indian paisley, Moroccan tile, Scandinavian folk art, ancient Egypt, and French Empire. The first two chapters provide full coverage of tools, supplies, and basic techniques, including making the stencil, various painting methods, planning large projects, and tips on finishes and texturing. Novices can probably handle the simpler geometrics, but many of the projects seem to demand some degree of practice. Quite a few have multiple overlays, and the all-over wall and floor patterns are best attempted by the more experienced. For those who have had their fill of the easy flowery, folksy stuff, this is a wonderful book, with vivid, sophisticated designs created by a master stencil artist. --Amy Handy
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Walls, Floors, Cabinets, Doors....leave nothing unstenciled!.......2003-03-20
This book isn't about lifelike murals, --this helps you replicate stonework,continuous borders & various mosaics with stencils. Classic designs that are timeless and very interesting. Is a lot of work, and is for the craft artist willing to work, and home interior decorator could get MANY ideas. This book is chocked full of photos and a dream to drool over.
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- Simple decorative techniques
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First steps in stenciling
Leslie Linsley
Manufacturer: Doubleday
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Simple decorative techniques.......2002-10-27
This book contains over forty stenciling projects with easy-to-follow directions for creating gifts, painting furniture, and decorating for the holidays. If you're interested in Victoriana or folk art, "First Steps in Stenciling" will explain a simple decorative technique that was in extensive use during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. One interesting area that the author does not cover is Islamic stenciling, but the techniques would be similar.
There are many web sites devoted to selling pre-cut stencils, but with this book you can trace and cut out your own. You can also photocopy a desired image and enlarge or shrink it to the right size.
One word of caution: try to find stencil paper or acetate at an art supply store and don't attempt to use cardboard like I did. You will be rewarded with crisper, cleaner edges.
It's up to you what paint you use (the author strongly recommends acrylic paint) for the stencil, but it is easier to apply using a baby roller with all of the strokes going in one direction. The author suggests using stipple brushes, a different brush for each color. You might want to try both techniques, depending on the surface you're stenciling.
Other supplies include an X-acto craft knife with extra packages of blades, tracing paper, a container for mixing paint, masking tape, pencils or fine markers, a straight-edge, a good cutting surface, and something to wipe away your mistakes (old tee-shirts work well for this).
There are detailed instructions for each of the projects in this book, including spice racks, flower pots, pillows, holiday table settings, Christmas cards, and curtains. The author has a very clear, easy-to-understand style and most of her stencils are uncomplicated and easy to cut.
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Stencil It!/over 100 Step-By-Step Projects
Sally Walton , and
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- An Excellent Review of Feminism in Contemporary Art
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Seeing Through the Seventies: Essays on Feminism and Art (Routledge Harwood)
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In recent years, Laura Cottingham has emerged as one of the most visible feminist critics of the so-called post-feminist generation. Following a social-political approach to art history and criticism that accepts visual culture as part of a larger social reality, Cottingham's writings investigate central tensions currently operative in the production, distribution, and evaluation of art, especially those related to cultural production by and about women.
Seeing Through the Seventies gathers together Cottingham's key essays from the 1990s. These include an appraisal of Lucy R. Lippard, the most influential feminist art critic of the 1970s; a critique of the masculinist bias implicit to modernism and explicitly recuperated by commercially successful artists in the 1980s; an exhaustive analysis of the curatorial failures operative in the "Bad Girl" museum exhibitions of the early 1990s; surveys of feminist-influenced art practices during the women's liberationist period; speculations on the current possibilities and obstacles that attend efforts to recover lesbian cultural history; and an examination of the life, work, and obscuration of the early twentieth-century French photographer Claude Cahun.
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An Excellent Review of Feminism in Contemporary Art.......2003-04-02
This is an outstanding book by an excellent author who knows her subject matter well. She is the pre-eminent feminist art critic in the United States and perhaps in the world. She is also an excellent writer and an ardent feminist who has utilized her profligate education at the University of Chicago to illuminate for us all the trends of contemporary art as well as historicize the femininization of modern art as yet uncatalogued. Not bad for a country girl from Kentucky.--AJ Kyriazis
Hot Younger Critic Brings New Perspective.......2000-04-22
Laura Cottingham (b.1958), is an openly lesbian cultural critic who tackles vested interests including those of feminist art history. She represents a generation of younger commentators who grew up watching feminism change the world in which they lived. Seeing Through The Seventies: Essays on Feminism and Art contains nine essays on topics as varied as (heterosexual) critic Lucy Lippard, the construction of lesbian history, art exhibits like "Bad Girls" and "The Dinner Party," and the L.A. women's art movement of the 1970s. Cottingham uses her lesbian perspective as a tool with which to question assumptions. My only quarrel is that it does not have an index, a distressing omission in a book as useful as this one.
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This biography reveals the particular concerns and triumphs of the often neglected civil rights activist, Ruby Doris Smith Robinson
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