Monday, December 05, 2005

Books Reviewed

The Busy Tree, by Jennifer Ward, illustrated by Lisa Falkenstern

Twitch and Shout: A Touretter's Tale
, by Lowell Handler


Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
, by Ammon Shea

A Map of Home, by Randa Jarrar

Q Road, by Bonnie Jo Campbell

All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India, by Rachel Manija Brown

Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories, by Katha Pollitt

American Food Writing: An Anthology with Classic Recipes , edited by Molly O'Neill

Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, by James Patterson

Fair Weather (children's book) and The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
, by Richard Peck and Eric Larson, respectively

Until Our Hearts Are On the Ground: Aboriginal Mothering, Oppression, Resistance and Rebirth, edited by D. Memee Lavell-Harvard and Jeannette Corbiere Lavel

The Birchbark House, by Louise Erdrich (children's book)

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women, by Geraldine Brooks

I Can't Stop! A Story about Tourette Syndrome, by Holly L. Niner (illustrated by Meryl Treatner; children's book)

Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism, by Dawn Prince-Hughes

The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation, by David Kamp

You Suck: A Love Story, by Christopher Moore

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus,
by Charles C. Mann

The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten, by Jeffrey Kacirk

Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World,
by Linda R. Hirshman

Virginity or Death! And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time, by Katha Pollitt

The Thunder Tree: Lessons from an Urban Wildland,
by Robert Michael Pyle

The Second Stage, by Betty Friedan

To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife,
by Caitlin Flanagan

The Bowl Is Already Broken, by Mary Kay Zuravleff

Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood,
by Steven Mintz

Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century,
by Laura Shapiro

The Driveway Diaries: A Dirt Road Almanac,
by Tim Brooke

Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash,
by Elizabeth Royte

Ordinary Wolves, by Seth Kantner

Drinking the Rain, by Alix Kates Shulman

Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic,
by Jennifer Niven

A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term, by Bronislaw Malinowski

Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age, by Kevin Boyle

Happy Housewives, by Darla Shine

The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why an Invented Past Won't Give Women a Future
, by Cynthia Eller

Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals,
by Robert M. Sapolsky

The Three-Martini Playdate: A Practical Guide to Happy Parenting, by Christie Mellor

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, by Mary Roach

Goodnight Nobody, by Jennifer Weiner

A Midwife’s Tale, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Front of the Class, by Brad Cohen with Lisa Wysocky

The Bookseller of Kabul
, by Asne Seierstad

Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds
, by Michael Quinion

Trees Make the Best Mobiles, by Jessica Teich and
Brandel France De Bravo

French Impressions, by John S. Littell

Confessions of a Slacker Mom, by Muffy Mead-Ferro

A Field Guide to Sprawl, by Dolores Hayden

Last Child in the Woods, by Richard Louv

The Day the Great Lakes Drained Away, by Charles Ferguson Barker

The Lake, the River & the Other Lake, by Steve Amick

A Primate’s Memoir, by Robert Sapolsky

Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety, by Judith Warner

The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars: Who Decides What Makes a Good Mother? by Miriam Peskowitz