If you are hording your masterpieces in a desk draw, hoping, like Emily Dickenson, to be discovered after your death, you may be doing the world a disservice. If you think that getting your poetry published is an impossible task,…
Category: Non fiction reviews
A review of From London to New Delhi by Car by Dean Warren
Warren’s memoir is short on words but the pictures that fill the oversized paperback are fascinating. The blue mosque in Istanbul is glorious while the Roman ruins in Baalbek are haunting. Reviewed by Robin Landry From London to New Delhi…
A review of Making Effective Media Happen by Michael Brown
In this media oriented world, almost everybody has something to sell or wants to create a public image. The book takes an insider perspective and provides information on exactly what a journalist will be looking for when interviewing you or…
A review of Step Across This Line by Salman Rushdie
The essays in this collection are, without exception, witty, intelligent, acerbic, moving, thoughtful and above all, truthful. Celebrating secular freedom of thought and speech, personal responsibility and courage, together they form a thesis. The book reads quickly, and all of…
A review of The Online Copywriter’s Handbook by Robert Bly
Bly is probably one of the world’s most famous and experienced copywriters, and he not only has more than 20 years experience, worked for over 100 clients and authored 50 books, he is also a noted authority on the creation…
A Review of Portraits in Fiction by A S Byatt
It is likely that, as an writer who works solely with words, however visually descriptive these words may be, Byatt is naturally biased. Portraits in Fiction is nevertheless, exactly what literary criticism should be, provocative, well researched, well written, enjoyable to read,…
A Review of Pasta e Sugo by Maria Ponte
If you are a beginning cook, and looking for a no-frills, easy to use cookbook with a number of well known pasta dishes, Pasta e Sugo might not be a bad choice, otherwise serious pasta lovers may be disappointed with the lack…
A review of Belief or Non-Belief: A Confrontation by Umberto Eco and Cardinal Martini
The book is worth reading for its philosophical insights and the beauty of its prose alone, but the very fact that a correspondence like this can take place is also meritous and powerful. In these times of fundamentalist ignorance and…
A review of Favourite Food by Jill Dupleix
The book celebrates traditional and classic recipes from around the world: “food that links us to the generations past; that has a sense of time and place; that has a reason to be; that gives us a sense of the…
A Review of Writer’s Guide by Irina Dunn
While the book suffers from trying to cover too much and therefore being a jack of all trades and master of none, there is still plenty of material here for both the beginner and the experienced writer, much of it…