Posts tagged with ‘Solid B Reviews’
May 10, 2012
ENTERTAINING MEMOIR FOLLOWS a woman’s journey from cult film stardom to marijuana farming (and back out!)
Grade: SOLID B
GROWGIRL: HOW MY LIFE AFTER THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT WENT TO POT
Penguin
2012
Tags: California, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews
May 9, 2012
MULTIGENERATIONAL FAMILY SAGA takes on class, race, adoption, reproductive rights, but never quite comes alive.
Grade: SOLID B
THE POSSIBILITY OF YOU
Gallery Books
2012
Tags: Historical Fiction, Novels, Solid B Reviews, Women's Fiction
May 4, 2012
A LAID-BACK LOOK AT a wide range of “clean energy” inventors, from the mainstream to the maverick. Fascinating!
Grade: SOLID B
MAD LIKE TESLA: UNDERDOG INVENTORS AND THE RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF CLEAN ENERGY
ECW Press
2011
Tags: History of Science, Non-Fiction, Science, Social and Cultural Commentary, Solid B Reviews
May 3, 2012
AN ELEGANT COLLAGE OF a memoir from writer, art historian Rosamond Bernier; fun and gossipy about the greats.
Grade: SOLID B
SOME OF MY LIVES: A SCRAPBOOK MEMOIR
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2011
Tags: Art History, Literary History, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Visual Arts
May 2, 2012
CHARMING COZY MYSTERY set in small-town coastal Maine features a local newspaper reporter (and mom) as sleuth.
Grade: SOLID B
CHOCOLATE COVERED MURDER
Kensington
2011
Tags: Mystery, Novels, Solid B Reviews
April 30, 2012
TOUCHING TRUE STORY of the pride and hope the beleaguered citizens of Ciudad Juárez have found in soccer.
Grade: SOLID B
THIS LOVE IS NOT FOR COWARDS: SALVATION AND SOCCER IN CIUDAD JUAREZ
Bloomsbury USA
2012
Tags: Mexico, Non-Fiction, Social and Cultural Commentary, Solid B Reviews, Sports
April 27, 2012
SNAPSHOTS OF A LOST ERA vividly captured in a young writer/artist’s diary of his 1980 Merchant Marine voyage.
Grade: SOLID B
THE VOYAGE OF THE ROSE CITY: AN ADVENTURE AT SEA
Random House
2011
Tags: Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Seafaring, Solid B Reviews, Travel Writing
April 24, 2012
CHARMING, CHATTY MEMOIR from a Vermont country doctor has plenty of humor, compassion, and local color.
Grade: SOLID B
IT'S PROBABLY NOTHING: MORE ADVENTURES OF A VERMONT COUNTRY DOCTOR
Chelsea Green
2011
Tags: Health, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews
April 22, 2012
THOUGHTFUL SPACE OPERA features anti-hero outsiders battling a mysterious, technologically superior alien ship.
Grade: SOLID B
FAITH
Night Shade Books
2012
Tags: Novels, Science Fiction, Solid B Reviews