C. M. Mayo must receive kudos for this bilingual literary journal. Her goal is, in some ways, modest: to bring new Canadian, Mexican and U.S. writing to readers of English and Spanish. The execution of this goal, however, cannot be dismissed as simple. Anyone who has read different translations of the same work realizes that a bad translation can suck the soul out of a fine piece of literature. Here, with works translated either from English to Spanish, or vice versa, nothing is lost. This first issue of Tameme includes short stories, poems and essays by such wonderful writers as Margaret Atwood, Juan Villoro and Jaime Sabines, to name a few of the many authors featured. My favorite piece is "New York Day Women," by Edwidge Danticat, but there is something here for everyone. If you love literary journals, this one is a must.

Tameme makes a huge contribution to the literary scene of North America,as it makes available in the same volume exquisite writing from Canada,Mexico and the United States.But probably its main virtue is that it presents the pieces written in the original language and then translated either to Spanish or English.All of the translations are as beautiful as the original pieces.The editors should also be commended for the excellent presentation of the book.I will be anxiously waiting for a new number in what should become a series!

The 'Thunder Horse' of the title is Tyrannosaurus Rex, although it could also refer to the earthquake that starts out this fifth Gabriel Du Pré mystery with a bang.

All of the regulars are at the Touissant Bar listening to Du Pré make sad Voyageur music on his fiddle, when the Big One rumbles in. It doesn't seem fair that Montana should have avalanches, grizzlies, Alberta Clippers, and earthquakes, but I guess it keeps the outlanders from swarming all over the scenery.

Unlike the wholesale carnage in "Wolf, No Wolf," only one outlander on a snowmobile is murdered in "Thunder Horse." This murder, plus an assault on his friend Bart force Du Pré back into his role as a reluctant detective. He gets the usual amount of playful misdirection from the Shaman Benetsee, practical advice from his mistress, Madelaine, and homicidal commentary from the ancient Booger Tom.

The earthquake shifted mountains, dried up springs, uncovered bones---17,000 year-old human skeletons of a Caucasian people that Benetsee calls the Horned Star Folk.

How did the shaman know that a horned star amulet would be found among the bones? How old is Benetsee, anyway? Is he the enigmatic Walker in the Snow?

T Rex bones mix in with the skeletons of the mysterious Horned Star Folk, along with a yellow, radioactive uranium clay that was once used for face paint. Du Pré alternates between hard drinking, hallucinatory sweat baths, and journeys through the eerie and death-dealing badlands of Montana before he can begin to work out how these three things fit together---and how the completed pattern points to a killer.

"Thunder Horse" is one of the best of the Du Pré mysteries. Peter Bowen's Montana badlands are haunted by the people who once lived there---Norwegian homesteaders; Crow; Cheyenne; the Métis descendents of Voyageurs; the Horned Star folk who paddled down long-vanished rivers from the Arctic. Their bones and legends are the heart of this mystery.

An earthquake strikes an area near Bozeman, Montana where the Japanese had begun a development project to turn a local spring into a trout farm. However, the plan is placed on hold because the quake reveals that the land is an ancient Native American burial ground.

Soon, a more modern corpse is found in the area. A snowmobiler, carrying a dinosaur tooth, has been murdered. An archeologist claims the tooth is valuable because it is that of a T-Rex, of which there are very few complete skeletons. Part-time deputy Gabriel Du Pre begins to investigate the killing as well as attempting to short circuit the growing hostility between the Japanese and the Native Americans. As he gets closer to the truth about the murder, Gabriel places his own life in jeopardy.

In his fifth Du Pre mystery, Peter Bowen continues to scribe one of the freshest and unique regional who-done-it series on the market today. The characters are all genuine and fun as they charmingly represent the local lifestyle. The story line is fast-paced and even the use of local dialogues fails to slow the action down for a minute. THUNDER HORSE, its predecessors, and Mr. Bowen's other series (Yellowstone Kelly) are all entertaining reads.

Harriet Klausner

I read the 1994 release of this book from my local library and I liked it so much that I am going to purchase it.

It mainly deals with the end-times and how we are living in them now (the trumpet is to the lips, even), according to hundreds of reported apparitions, many Scriptural passages, natural catastrophes such as earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes increasing rapidly, and more.

Much of the work mainly contains reports of apparitions from angels to very religious individuals and even to unbelievers, turning their hearts to Christ as a result. There are even relations of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary at Medjugorge and Fatima, as well as many others. He points out, though, that many apparitions have been known to be deceiving spirits (siting some of the known false ones), and he leaves it up to you whether to accept them as such or not.

He also goes in to how there are many deceiving spirits fooling a lot of people with psychic phenomena (he was at one time a sort of "paranormal investigator", in a scientific sense, and even interviewed Uri Geller). He even mentions how fallen angels and demons tie in to the UFO abductions and sightings. Also, this one really surprised me (I did NOT expect to see it mentioned), he mentions the connections between the beast in Revelations and the Illuminati!

Overall, I found it to be an excellent book which compiles many reports, writings, and events into an easy to understand book on just what the heck is going on in these confusing times, and with a Christian perspective.

His bibliography in the "Notes" section is wonderful, too.

Buy it, it's definitely worth the measely ten bucks.

I just finished reading this book. It is written for all Christian denominations. It presents the warnings being given to people on this earth over the last 30-40 years as well as instances of spiritual interventions on earth over the same time period. It is objective and allows the reader to decide for themselves whether or not to believe. He also balances with stories of false apparitions. It is a good general introduction to modern day apparitions, prophesies, and interactions with the spiritual world-the world of the "heavenlies". You will re-think your perceptions of the world we live in.

Based on a true story, it starts off in Greece, during WWII. Maki, the main character of the story, has to cope with the hardships of life. He travels to America in hope of attaining a better life, and during his amazing journey, he crosses paths with people who become a very significant part of his life forever. ~Truly a must read book!

The Uprooted is an easy reading enjoyable book. I was fascinated to read about a boy journey to manhood. It starts in his home land in Greece and takes him around the world, eventualy ending in america. I was intrigued to read about his travels all around the world and all the many different people and cultures he encounters. I sincerely recommend this book

Colette's Renee Nere is complex, her name alone tells us that (the last name is the first name spelled backwards, not to mentioned that Renee means "reborn"). This female protagonist would certainly fit in with the modern notion of being female, and in the early 20th century, this was not only rare, but not very-well understood. I adore this book because of the way it encourages women (by example) to carve out their own existence and not to rely upon men for security. It is also wonderfully written. However, you'll be in for a shocker if you read the sequel, "The Shackle".

Gigi may be the best known of her works, but 'The Vagabond' stands out in pure beauty from the rest. The plot (an actress on the stage who faces public scorn and problems in love) seems to be most autobiographical, and narrator and main character, Renee Nere, is a delight. Both beautiful and painful in spots, this book deserves to be read, as well as its sequel, 'The Shackle.'

I have been a fan of Garcia Marquez and his stories since 1980, after I read "Cien Anos de Soledad".
All of his previous books and short stories have been mostly a sample of great stories from a wonderful story teller; in contrast, the flavor this book gives you is one where you feel as if he were telling you, face to face, his early years, from BEFORE he was born to when he was about 30 years old. This volume is the first in a trilogy that will make up his memoirs.
This book will give you a great insight on his background, his family, how he came to invent all the fantastic stories and characters that make up his books.
He began his literary life as a cartoonist and a poet; later, in his late teens he began writing short stories, commentaries and some editorials (mostly anonymously) for different newspapers in Colombia. He sees this period of his life as the one where he came to hone his skills, which eventually -in 1982-brought him the Nobel prize of literature.

This book is not just a narrative of his life; he also gives the reader many insights on the way he approaches a story, the mechanics of it, and what he expects to see in his finished piece.
If you are a fan of Gabo (his nickname)or you are merely a lover of great literature -I see Hemingway as a comparison-, you will love this book and will look forward to Gabo's second volume, sometime in the next two years.

P.S. I read this book three times and each time I noticed different things that I had missed the first time I read it.

This is an extremely fun book to read. No big dramas, not complicated plots, just Gabriel García Márquez life history. But you're going to find yourself reading it in the most unexpected places, 'cause you won't be able to stop or let it go! It is writen in his classic style, jumping from the past to the further past to the recent past in a single page. But what is really fascinating of this book is that almost every single character of his past novels appears here, but in flesh & blood. You will find out why "Love In The Time Of Cholera" was written for (and who's story it is), what the name "Macondo" stands for, and why "Nigromanta" was such a fascinating and important character on "One Hundred Years of Solitude".
If you are craving for the new Nobel Prize winning novel, maybe you're looking at the wrong place, but if you like García Márquez "lighter" books and enjoy a very well written book, and a writer that has the ability to convert a simple disfunctional ordinary family history into one of the best books ever, then you will certainly enjoy "To Live To Count It".

As someone who has a MA in Modern European History and with a concentration in early 20th century German cultural history, I found Liulevicius's work to be not just thought-provoking, but very easy to read. It is sad that the Eastern Front has been neglected as a whole, as the experiences of Lands and Spaces played such a key role in the development of German postwar attitudes toward the East. It is no accident that the first shots of World War II were fired there and that most of the fighting and killing occurred there. In reading this book, the reader can get a sense of why these later events occurred the way that they did. The concept of German Kultur as a driving force intrigues me. Until recently, most military histories did not discuss the mindsets of the average soldier, instead focusing on the leaders.

Well, I could say a lot more about this work, but I think brevity is the key and that the above comments just only illustrate a few of the many fine points that Liulevicius makes in his book.

A magnificent scholarly work on the (unfortunately) often ignored Eastern Front of World War I. Liulevicius paints a compelling, yet chilling picture of the experiences of the German army of occupation. He skillfully reconstructs the occupiers' mindscape and masterfully examines how the collective experinces in the East played a role in the constructiion of Nazi ideology. Liulevicius' work in this neglected field is a welcome contribution to the academic world. Not only is this work insightful, but it is wonderfully written. Avoiding a common pitfall of most academic writing, Liulevicus's skillful prose and well constructed narrative keep the reader engaged and unwilling to part with the text.

This is a unique book. It tells you about the writers workshop
process. The writers workshop process has its origins in the creative
writing community, and has been used in the software patterns
community. Richard Gabriel explains how the process can also be used
in other domains where creative effort is involved, such as reviewing
marketing materials. I book for two reasons. First it provide great
insight into the creative process (as applied to anything) and the
values that are used in the writers workshop can benefit anyone who
creates things, even if they don't use the workshop process. Second,
if you do want to use writers workshops, this book explains the hows
and whys of them. I had been involved in workshopping software
patterns since 1995, and I though that I pretty much understood what
they were about. I learned a lot reading this book.

I recommend this book for anyone who involved in the creative
process(of any sort): Software engineers, writers, teachers, and
students.

Every fall, just after school starts, some of the finest minds in object-oriented programming depart for an extraordinary conference in an improbable location. Held at a turn of the century mansion hidden among the corn fields of central Illinois, the PLoP (Pattern Languages of Programs) conference is one of those rare, magical events where everything you know about the way the software world works is turned on its head.

Instead of "acolytes" gathering around the feet of the "master" to hear the same talk that he gives at every other conference, experienced folks like Richard Gabriel, Ralph Johnson, Kent Beck and Ward Cunningham sit and give personalized advice about how the patterns and pattern languages written by first-time authors can be improved and strengthened. It's a place where you might find out one of your dinner companions has written four books on OO design and speaks at conferences twelve times a year, while the other is a new graduate student just getting started in the field.

How does this occur? And why do people keep coming back year after year? The key is in the primary innovation of this conference -- bringing the notion of an Author's Workshop to computer science. Richard Gabriel is the person who introduced that idea to the computer science community, and he writes lucidly and joyfully about the wonder and the terror of Author's workshops in this delightfully agreeable little book.

In this volume, Richard describes how the Author's workshop came out of the creative writing and poetry community, and provides a roadmap for carrying out a writer's workshop. He describes the benefits of the process, and gives sage advice to the participants in such workshops. He draws his stories and examples from his varied experiences in workshops in both communities (software and literature) and explains why such an unlikely way of doing things has come to be so valued and cherished by the software patterns community.

So, if you've wondered why people in the software patterns community are so set on the way they run their conferences, read this book and you'll understand why. But that's not the only value; reading this book can give you insight into how to improve your own writing in any genre, and how to marshall the resources of your communities to improve the quality of your work. I'm hooked on this process, and I'm delighted that I finally have something to refer people to so that I can share some of the magic of this unconventional way of teaching, and learning.

Having lost my first hero some time ago I still use his good humor and even temper as a base for my life. Although I'll never be him, it is doubtful anyone will ever be me. I read this entire book of quotes in one sitting. I have passed some quotes along to people I know will get something from them... To this book I would add this toast "To Our Fathers... and their Sons." If "Father" is a special word to you, Buy this book. Buy several in fact and give them as gifts. They will be appreciated

See the 1998 version of this book: Communication for Accountants: Strategies for Success published by Irwin/McGraw-Hill. New and improved. Wonderful book.