I first heard about Joe Mackall at an event at Ohio State this past summer with Dinty Moore. I like what I heard and so picked up both Last Street Before Cleveland and [amazon-product region=”us” text=”Plain Secrets: An Outsider among the Amish” type=”text”]0807010650[/amazon-product]. I had some interest in the Amish as I had once worked… Continue reading
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The Last Street Before Cleveland by Joe Mackall
For some reason if a book doesn’t get reviewed relatively quickly I struggle mightily to get around to it at all. This habit vexes me to no end and this year I have tried, with varying degrees of success, to be better about not allowing books to get lost. Joe Mackall’s [amazon-product region=”us” text=”The Last Street… Continue reading
The Last Street Before Cleveland by Joe Mackall
For some reason if a book doesn’t get reviewed relatively quickly I struggle mightily to get around to it at all. This habit vexes me to no end and this year I have tried, with varying degrees of success, to be better about not allowing books to get lost. Joe Mackall’s [amazon-product region=”us” text=”The Last Street… Continue reading
In the Mail: Now in Paperback Edition
–> Matala by Craig Holden Publishers Weekly A couple of smalltime grifters are taken for a ride by the enticing young woman they choose as an easy mark in this nifty little page-turner from Holden (The Narcissist’s Daughter). Young, beautiful and bored Darcy Arlen is in Rome on a group tour of Europe, a gift… Continue reading
In the Mail: biography/memoir edition
–>Â The Road of Lost Innocence by Somaly Mam Publishers Weekly The horror and violence perpetrated on young girls to feed the sex trade industry in southeast Asia is personalized in this graphic story. Of “mixed race,” Khmer and Phnong, Mam is living on her own in the forest in northern Cambodia around 1980 when… Continue reading
In the Mail: memoir edition
–> Walking the Rainbow by Richard Rene Silvin Product Description Richard Rene Silvin seemed to have it all. After overcoming a childhood of emotional neglect and trauma, much of which has been shared through the honest and brutal pages of his first book, I Survived Swiss Boarding Schools, Silvin transcended his past to lead an… Continue reading
In the Mail: memoir edition
–> Walking the Rainbow by Richard Rene Silvin Product Description Richard Rene Silvin seemed to have it all. After overcoming a childhood of emotional neglect and trauma, much of which has been shared through the honest and brutal pages of his first book, I Survived Swiss Boarding Schools, Silvin transcended his past to lead an… Continue reading