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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 2004
Page
17
Lawrence reader Chantel C Guidry shares a vivid dream of white frothy tornadoes forming at the horizon. The poem captures fear mixed with awe as the storm embodies life’s sudden shifts and raw energy, reflecting a nocturnal vision submitted to the Poet's Showcase.
A roundup of popular recent releases across fiction and nonfiction. Trace by Patricia Cornwell follows a missing teen case in Virginia as a troubled ex-chief medical examiner seeks help. The Da Vinci Code uncovers a Louvre murder linked to Leonardo and a secret society. Other notable works include Sidney Sheldon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark, Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Mitch Albom’s The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Kitty Kelley’s The Family, and investigative titles by O’Neill Corsi Hersh Franks and Corsi.
A compact listing reviews four popular books: Phil McGraw's Family First promotes parental influence on children. The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren centers on life's meaning through faith. The South Beach Diet by Arthur Agarston outlines a Miami cardiologist designed weight loss plan. Guinness World Records 2005 catalogs diverse world records with illustrations. The South Beach Diet Cookbook compiles recipes from the same Miami cardiologist.
The review praises David Yeadon’s Seasons in Basilicata for its intimate portrait of southern Italy. It notes stock travel book tropes but says the author rises above them with vivid sketches, local characters like Don Pierino, and rich scenes of olive oil and wine life. The book explores a poor, little known region through a fond, observant lens.
Two mystery writers will read from their novels Monday 7 to 9 p.m. in the Lawrence Public Library auditorium at 707 VE. Patricia Sprinkle discusses When Will the Dead Lady Sing while Eleanor Sullivan, former dean of nursing at Kansas University, discusses Twice Dead and the nurse sleuth Monika Everhardt. Sullivan’s follow up Deadly Diversions, released by Hilliard & Harris, is noted.
Katrina Vandenberg, former Lawrence resident and current visiting writer at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, will read and sign copies of Atlas (Milkweed Editions) at the Raven Bookstore on Saturday from 5 to 6 PM. Her poems explore patterns where ideas and events reverberate across time and place. She and husband John Reimringer live in Minneapolis where he is finishing a first novel and teaching writing.
Lois Henderson reviews three pumpkin themed picture books for children. Sixteen Runaway Pumpkins by Dianne Ochiltree and Anne Sophie Lanquetin presents a rhyming counting romp ending in a pie creation. Mrs McMurphy's Pumpkin by Rick Walton with Delana Bettoli adds spooky humor as pumpkins threaten the calm Mrs. McMurphy before a comeuppance. Mr. Murry and Thumbkin by Karma Wilson and Ard Hoyt imagines a pumpkin house and a hungry Thumbkin learning friendship and problem solving.
Andrew Ledbetter, Kansas University TA, reads That Hideous Strength by C S Lewis and praises its sci fi take on dehumanization. Catherine Wick, Topeka attorney, enjoys Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein as a landmark novel. Max Wardlow, McLouth craftsman, sketches The Power of Now for its plain direct language. Denise LaRosh, Tonganoxie English teacher, finds The Lovely Bones a gripping tale told by a murdered girl in heaven. Adrien Vlack, Ann Arbor housing director, dislikes Sense and Sensibility for its tediousness.
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