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Latest book reviews by Ruth Curtiss

Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda - A marriage between two doctors, a man from India and a woman from the USA with an adopted daughter. Complications arise they don’t anticipate. Interesting and well written. Information about customs and culture in India. The Postmistress by Sarah Blake - A WWII story from a different angle. A young [ READ MORE ]

Remarkable Creatures, a novel by Tracy Chevalier, reviewed by Ruth Curtiss

 Remarkable Creatures, by Tracy Chevalier: The remarkable creatures in the title of this book are the fossils which can be found on some sandy beaches and in rocky structures, in this case along the shore of the Atlantic Ocean in England, not far from London. Sometimes they fit together like a puzzle to form what was [ READ MORE ]

Nikola Tesla (inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer) was a columbiphiliac…a pigeon lover

 Actually, so am I, but I think Tesla just might have taken it a little too far. If you have ever wondered exactly where you stand between normal and crazy, I think the following could tilt your perception of yourself toward normal. I read this in Strange Brains and Genius: The Secret Lives Of Eccentric Scientists And [ READ MORE ]

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford: Book Review by Ruth Curtiss

  • February 17th, 2011
  • Posted in Books

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford held my interest from beginning to ending. It is a story based on what actually happened when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941 and war was declared. Thousands of Japanese lived in this country and since the government didn’t know which were spys and [ READ MORE ]

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie and Noah, drunk and naked

I am about 1/3 through Rushdie’s book and really enjoying it. It is a wonderful, larger than life tale including historical fiction, magic and mythology, family dynasty and family disfunction all set against the backdrop of the independence of India and Pakistan. It was published in 1981 so I’m surprised I haven’t read it before. [ READ MORE ]

How Do We Know When It’s God, by Dan Wakefield

  • September 10th, 2010
  • Posted in Art . Books

Novelist, journalist and screen writer Dan Wakefield is using one of William Solis’s artworks for the cover of his book How Do We Know When It’s God?  See below for a fabulous description of this uplifting book. You can also order this book on-line by visiting http://www.beechriverbooks.com/id36.html  or through Amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0982521456. Decades of atheism [ READ MORE ]

Creating From the Spirit by Dan Wakefield…cover image by Sarah Curtiss

  • August 2nd, 2010
  • Posted in Art . Books

Novelist, journalist and screen writer Dan Wakefield is using one of my artworks for the cover of his book Creating from the Spirit…my first book cover commission for a book that wasn’t my own!  See below for a fabulous description of this uplifting book. You can order on-line by visiting Beech River Books or through Amazon.com. [ READ MORE ]

Reading update: Geek Love, Sixteen Pleasures, Cutting for Stone, My Stroke of Insight, Moses : A Life

Geek Love: A Novel by Katherine Dunn. Weird quirky book…might be too strange for some tastes…along the order of a John Irving novel, but not quite as tight. People who like A Prayer for Owen Meaney  (one of my all time favorites) would like this book. Definitely a fun read. The Sixteen Pleasures: A Novel by [ READ MORE ]

Desert ants smell in stereo! Empire of the ants. The Roaches Have No King. Raptor Red.

  • March 24th, 2010
  • Posted in Books

After my recent trip to Death Valley, I thought this article was mighty interesting: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100309102527.htm Which reminds me of three works of fiction that are extremely fun anthropomorphic reads…a triptych so to speak: 1st, read Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker 2nd, read Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber 3rd, read The Roaches Have [ READ MORE ]

The Breach by Patrick Lee and insights on perspective filtering

   A very good book to read on the airplane. Fast paced sci-fi…lots of turns; waaaaay too much violence but I skimmed those parts. Just to give you an idea of how engrossed I was, after the airplane landed the pilot came on the air and apologized for the landing. I said out loud, “he’s [ READ MORE ]

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