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NASCAR DAD John Grisham
Grisham age 54 has written 22 legal thrillers that are translated into 29 languages. Over 245 million copies published. Offers unique info on legal practices in US and judges and court system and lega...
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Book Report: Glowing endorsements for new poet
River Falls poet Thomas R. Smith writes that Kristin Laurel’s new book of poetry will “burn itself on your memory.”
By Dave Wood, columnist , March 14, 2013
Book Report: Area author’s round two a success
Not long ago I raved about a first novel written by a neighbor down the road in Lake Elmo, Minn. His name: Jim Trevis.
By Dave Wood, columnist , March 08, 2013
Story Time volunteers at the library
Karen Magnuson Lopez, left, and Liz Shapiro lead a story time at the Hudson Area Library. The pair volunteers for the Walkey Talkey Story Times on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 11:15 a.m. and the Wiggles and Giggles Story Times on Thursdays at 10:15 a.m. and 1 p.m.
March 07, 2013
Book Report: Son carries on, expands war narrative
As the River Falls Reads program winds down and folks who have read and enjoyed Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer-Prize winning novel about the Battle of Gettysburg, “The Killer Angels,” are looking for new reading material, I’m happy to report that although Shaara died in 1988, his family lives on in the person of his son, Jeff Shaara, who also writes about the Civil War and has completed his father’s trilogy with “Gods and Generals” and “The Last Full Measure.”
By Dave Wood, columnist , February 28, 2013
Book Report: The dirt: Even Puritans didn’t always come clean
I have ancestors who came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 17th century, so I’m always on the lookout for books, movies or plays about that fabled place.
By Dave Wood, columnist , February 25, 2013
Authors of Ages event at Hudson Library Saturday
Saturday, Feb. 23, Hudson’s eighth-grade DI team invites you to an open house at the Hudson Area Library from 1:15 p.m. to 3 p.m.
February 21, 2013
Book Report: Court documents reveal historical truths
I have ancestors who came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the seventeenth century, so I’m always on the lookout for books, movies or plays about that fabled place.
By Dave Wood, Columnist , February 21, 2013
Book Review: Diary entries sum up tales of rich and famous
“October 27, 1940, Sunday — Went to chapel all day as usual. Our big meeting next Sunday. Gwilym Rees will be preaching.
By Dave Wood, columnist , February 14, 2013
Book Reviews: Rehashing the infamous rabble-rousers
“Now that science has attained its youth and superstition is in its dotage, the trembling, palsied wreck says to the athlete: ‘Let us be friends.’ It reminds me of the bargain the cock wished to make with the horse: ‘Let us agree not to step on each other’s feet.’”
—Robert Ingersoll, 1885
By Dave Wood, columnist , February 07, 2013
Book Report: Going back keeps stories going
Sometimes an author doesn’t realize he’s got a good thing going and plunges on ahead when he might well have done better had he looked back.
By Dave Wood, columnist , February 01, 2013
Tech help at Hudson Library Feb. 5 & 8
The Hudson Library is offering assistance for using electronic devices and computers. For more information or to preregister, call the library at (715) 386-3101. The library is located at 700 First St.
January 31, 2013
Book Report: The rise and fall of empires
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert…Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The long and level sands stretch far away.
—Ozymandias by Percy Shelley
By Dave Wood, columnist , January 23, 2013
Confessions and pointers of a luxury hotel employee
Heads up! We’ve got a book about heads this week, “Heads in Beds,” by Jacob Tomsky (Doubleday, $25.95).
By Dave Wood, columnist , January 17, 2013
Book Report: Railway images take me down the tracks
I often receive books that make me think of old friends and relatives no longer here to enjoy them.
By Dave Wood, columnist , January 11, 2013
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