Posts Tagged ‘Things’

Where the Wild Things Are

February 25th, 2010

Where the Wild Things Are

Review

Where the Wild Things Are is one of those truly rare books that can be enjoyed equally by a child and a grown-up. If you disagree, then it’s been too long since you’ve attended a wild rumpus. Max dons his wolf suit in pursuit of some mischief and gets sent to bed without supper. Fortuitously, a forest grows in his room, allowing his wild rampage to continue unimpaired. Sendak’s color illustrations (perhaps his finest) are beautiful, and each turn of the page brings the discovery of a new wonder. The wild things–with their mismatched parts and giant eyes–manage somehow to be scary-looking without ever really being scary; at times they’re downright hilarious. Sendak’s defiantly run-on sentences–one of hi
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Getting Things Done: The Art Of Stress-Free Productivity

February 18th, 2010

Getting Things Done: The Art Of Stress-Free Productivity

Review

With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, “flow,” “mind like water,” and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you’d almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance. Not quite. Yes, Getting Things Done offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-do’s clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists–all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you’re working on. However, it still operates from the decidedly Western notion that if we could just get really, really organized, we could turn ourselves into 24/7 productivity machines. (To wit, Allen, whom the New Econ
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Fine Things

September 24th, 2009

Fine Things (Danielle Steel)
From Library Journal Bernard Fine is happy with his life. In 30 years of operation, just Senior Vice Wolff Department Store in his hometown, New York. We are pleased, therefore, to be sent to California to open a new elegant Wolff in San Francisco. Changes fate, but when he falls for a charming five named Jane, and his mother, Liz O'Reilly. Jane loves strong, Bernie sensitive and three are very happy until tragedy strikes the family of the Fine. In short, this is a story about the power of love and family unity to overcome the pain and suffering. The narrative moves slowly in some places and the dialogue is banal, but the characters are a nice
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