The Compassionate Bookshelf Archive
-
April blues
Posted on May 1, 2012 | No CommentsIn One Person-John Irving, (Simon & Schuster, 2012) Hello all. As you may have noticed, there was no new review for The Compassionate Bookshelf for the month of April. For... -
Listed: Dispatches from America’s Endangered Species Act
Posted on March 24, 2012 | No Comments“Each year, about one out of every hundred animal and plant populations goes extinct.” “As part of a wave as old as the republic itself, the Endangered Species Act (1973)... -
The Quickening Maze
Posted on February 25, 2012 | No CommentsThe Quickening Maze-Adam Foulds, (Penguin Books, 2009) “He loved lying in its lap, the continuing forest, the way the roots ate the rot of leaves, and it circled... -
Beautiful & pointless
Posted on January 20, 2012 | No CommentsBeautiful & pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry–David Orr (HarperCollins, 2011) “poets are constantly confronted not only with widespread ignorance about their art, but with the fact that anything... -
Living Among Meat Eaters: The Vegetarian’s Survival Handbook
Posted on November 20, 2011 | No CommentsLiving Among Meat Eaters: The Vegetarian’s Survival Handbook – Carol J. Adams, Three Rivers Press, 2001. In choosing this particular book for November, we at CompassionateU have decided to highlight... -
The Feminist Promise
Posted on October 12, 2011 | No CommentsThe Feminist Promise: 1792 to the Present–Christine Stansell (Random House, 2010). “But feminism, democracy’s younger sister, is easily shoved aside, dismissed as a chronicle of complaints that progress long ago... -
Ninth Ward-Jewell Parker Rhodes
Posted on August 31, 2011 | No CommentsNinth Ward—Jewell Parker Rhodes, (Little, Brown and Company, 2010) When Hurricane Katrina hit the southern United States in 2005, the devastating human toll that would be taken in the hurricane’s... -
Little Bee
Posted on August 3, 2011 | No CommentsLittle Bee—Chris Cleave, Simon & Schuster, 2010 I came to Chris Cleave’s marvelous Little Bee somewhat later than many. As an employee of a public library, I sometimes... -
Seeds: One Man’s Serendipitous Journey to Find the Trees That Inspired Famous American Writers from Faulkner to Kerouac, from Welty to Wharton—Richard Horan
Posted on July 7, 2011 | 2 CommentsSeeds: One Man’s Serendipitous Journey to Find the Trees That Inspired Famous American Writers from Faulkner to Kerouac, from Welty to Wharton—Richard Horan “In this day and age of tabloid... -
“C” a novel by Tom McCarthy
Posted on June 5, 2011 | No CommentsC a novel by Tom McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010) From the outset, Tom McCarthy’s novel C puts the reader on uncertain ground. The dreamlike opening chapters of the work...
