THE INDEPENDENT: Like a good Beaujolais, MacLean's vinous peregrination is light, easily consumed but delivers a surprising amount. A gung-ho enthusiast who uses grape shears to snip her fringe during a Monterey harvest, MacLean draws a graphic parallel between drinking wine at a tasting and later at dinner:
THE INDEPENDENT: Tackling an era from architecture to epidemiology, this enthralling epic concerns the greatest of the late Roman emperors. Rosen briskly sets the scene for the accession of Justinian in 518.
THE CHICAGO BLOG: As popular opinion has it, the Dutch obsession with tulips led to an unprecedented crash in the Dutch financial markets as demand for the bulbs waned.
NEW YORK TIMES: It’s hard not to have a regional bias toward the New Yorkers in “Apartment Therapy Presents: Real Homes, Real People, Hundreds of Real Design Solutions,” by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan.
NZ HERALD: Shortly after landing at Bounty Bay, a message was flashed over Pitcairn's radio telephones urging islanders to hurry outside because a plane was flying by. I joined them to look up into the Pacific sky.
Such is Pitcairn's isolation...
USA TODAY: By rights, William Young, 53, should be a mess. Emotionally distant from his missionary parents. Sexually abused by the New Guinea ...
CBC CA: Anna Porter is one of the Canadian authors whose works have been acclaimed this year for excellence in writing on Jewish themes and subjects.
THE MILLIONS: As we
discussed over the weekend, Borders is in dire straits and may be bought out by Barnes and Noble within months. (Meanwhile, Barnes and Noble isn't exactly hale - its stock price is down 32% in the last twelve months.)
THE INDEPENDENT: Faced with a British woman of Indian origin, the gate-keeper probably concluded that a backsliding co-religionist needed saving from herself. Many Egyptian Muslims, Miles writes, feel that they have "to check that other Muslims are observant, not least because it might be jeopardising their own afterlife if they do not".
allAFRICA: Books and reading books play a pivotal and important role in the entire education process of the country.
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