Wolff, Geoffrey The Hard Way Around
Knopf see Random 2010 218p 25.95
978-1-4000-4342-2 adult Biography E-BN
This is a biography of Captain Joshua Slocum, a boat-builder and adventurer who circumnavigated the world by himself in 1895 at the age of 51. This beautifully written biography is clearly a labor of love on the part of Wolff, who freely editorializes on Slocum’s life and on others’ writings about Slocum throughout the book. It will be above the heads of most high-school students, but is recommended for that special intellectual young adult who is fascinated by history and by larger-than-life historical figures. Occasionally the reader may have to look up a reference or a vocabulary word (such as “lagniappe”). It is recommended that this be read alongside Slocum’s own “Sailing Alone Around the World”. Kennedy, Carol
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Sunday, January 9, 2011
Stories of the Sea
Tesdell, Diana Secker editor. Stories of the Sea
Alfred Knopf see Random House 2010 405p 15.00
978-0-307-59265-1 ms/hs Misc. E
A classic collection of stories by Poe, Stephen Crane, Hemingway, Stevenson, Kipling and others, with the common theme of the sea and human’s relationship to it. This is an excellent collection of some classic good reads ... from Crane’s The Open Boat to Bradbury’s supernatural tale The Fog, each story is a wonderful example of its author’s gifts of storytelling. Type size is comfortable, quality of binding, paper and design is very good.
A good way to add some classic stories of the sea to any library’s collection. Kennedy(2), Carol
Ocean -- Short stories
Alfred Knopf see Random House 2010 405p 15.00
978-0-307-59265-1 ms/hs Misc. E
A classic collection of stories by Poe, Stephen Crane, Hemingway, Stevenson, Kipling and others, with the common theme of the sea and human’s relationship to it. This is an excellent collection of some classic good reads ... from Crane’s The Open Boat to Bradbury’s supernatural tale The Fog, each story is a wonderful example of its author’s gifts of storytelling. Type size is comfortable, quality of binding, paper and design is very good.
A good way to add some classic stories of the sea to any library’s collection. Kennedy(2), Carol
Ocean -- Short stories
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Email etiquette
Shipley, David and Will Schwalbe.
Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home.
Knopf (Random), 2007, 247p, $19.95. 978-0-307-26364-3.
Send is the basic survival guide for surviving in the digital age. It provides an insight into what should and should not be put into emails. It also provides some humorous insights into when not to use emails, etc.
The authors have written a comprehensive survival guide for sending emails in the digital age. The text is nicely formatted in that facts and information are enclosed in a blue box with examples, and further explanations formatted in plain text.
The book was extremely readable both for humorous examples as well as factual details and pertinent information. I found the supporting examples very down to earth. I even found that several of them had personal implications. I really enjoyed the significant events in the email timeline. Digital communications have become such a common place occurrence today that I found it hard to believe that it was 1993 when the White House first set up its’ first public email.
Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home.
Knopf (Random), 2007, 247p, $19.95. 978-0-307-26364-3.
Send is the basic survival guide for surviving in the digital age. It provides an insight into what should and should not be put into emails. It also provides some humorous insights into when not to use emails, etc.
The authors have written a comprehensive survival guide for sending emails in the digital age. The text is nicely formatted in that facts and information are enclosed in a blue box with examples, and further explanations formatted in plain text.
The book was extremely readable both for humorous examples as well as factual details and pertinent information. I found the supporting examples very down to earth. I even found that several of them had personal implications. I really enjoyed the significant events in the email timeline. Digital communications have become such a common place occurrence today that I found it hard to believe that it was 1993 when the White House first set up its’ first public email.
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