Rosalie More's Honor Among Thieves is a superbly written novel of suspense, intrigue, and gunplay set in the Old West as a woman on the run and an outlaw must work together to rescue their loved ones from marauders. Romance and fierce action combine in this enthralling, adventurous, thoroughly entertaining saga. Honor Among Thieves is the stuff of which blockbuster movies and high-rated television mini-series are made!

I don't know why this book isn't better known, or why we haven't heard much more from Honor Moore, whose grandmother's life is fascinating, tragic and ultimately mysterious. Unlike so many contemporary biographies, this one isn't overly long or obsessed with detail at the expense of perspective. An exquisite piece of work from start to finish--one of the best biographies I have ever read.

26 Fairmount Avenue is a warm, personal story of popular children's author, Tomie dePaola. Young children are always curious about the authors whose books the read. Tomie's new book offers a delightful glimpse into his life as a child, something young readers will no doubtt find fascinating. His connections to his earlier picture books, especially those about his grandparents, will strike a familiar note with young and old fans, alike. I think 26 Fairmount Avenue provides an authentic springboard to students' writing of their own autobiographies, at any grade level (even with my university students).

We have seen so much of Tomie's life reflected in his picture books. Now he has provided older readers a place to revisit old favorites from a more mature perspective. His stories help us to realize that the events of our early lives do make strong impressions.

I can't wait for the next edition!

In a delightful extension to his autobiographical picture story books comes Tomie dePaola's first novel - "26 Fairmount Avenue." Drawing on childhood experiences all readers will relate to - moving house, a first visit to the cinema, time spent with grandparents, starting school - dePaola weaves a magical tale so reminiscent of his superlative picture story books. Warm and nostalgic, without lapsing into sentimentality, this book will be welcomed by all who love fine children's literature. I hope more tales of 26 Fairmount Avenue are to follow.

In 1938, Tomie dePaola is five years old and things are really beginning to happen. His family is building a new house with two floors and will be moving out of the apartment he's lived in his whole life. He'll be starting kindergarten, hopefully learning to read, and he just can't wait. Walt Disney's Snow White is at the movies and everybody's excited about going to see it and that was the year the big hurricane struck Connecticut..... Told in the first person, Mr dePaola has written a wonderfully heartwarming, autobiographical story, full of humor, drama, suspense and just the day to day ups and downs of a little boy's life. His easy to read text is written in a gentle conversational tone and fans of dePaola will recognize characters from his picture books, (Nana Upstairs, Nana Downstairs). This continuity adds intimacy to the story and makes youngsters feel like a part of the family. Perfect for readers 7-11, 26 Fairmount Avenue is also a terrific read aloud family book and the first of a new series that shouldn't be missed.

A very honest study of Honor Moore's grandmother Margarett Sargent. I was impressed by the amount of research that went into painting a portrait of a complex and intelligent woman and artist. A certain amount of sympathy is felt for Margarett, yet she was a proud independent woman whose strength inspires. For me, Margarett's life transcended the label of "wealthy society woman." She had great talent that she put to use. With all the advances in anti-depressives and the treatment of bi-polar illness one wonders if the mental illness that helped suck her into a vacuum of loss would have been able to do so in this decade. In the end, her loss became our loss. Honor Moore did a great thing by keeping her grandmother's memory alive so that we could revisit her colorful art and life. A great read

Honor Moore spent more than a decade researching the life of her grandmother, the painter Margarett Sargent, in an attempt to understand why she stopped painting in middle age. "It was too intense," was all her grandmother ever told the author, late in the ex-painter's long life. Ms. Moore attempts to show that the demands of Sargent's privileged Boston society lifestyle forced her to give up her art and contributed to her madness. A wonderful read, and a surprising insight into the creative process, especially in a woman. --Jack Sheed

This book is a compilation of essays written by friends and fellow theologians of Sabastian Moore. Many of the essays are excellent summaries of the key idea's behind Moore's theological work emphasizing the psychological connection between the passion, death, and resurrection of Christ with the human thought processes that lead to self understanding and action.

According to Moore, the core of all human action stems from the desire to love and to be loved by the object of our desire. And, in its ultimate realization, that true object of our desire is God Himself. In the incarnation, passion and resurrection of Christ we are faced with the annihilation of God (who reveals the gap between our own perceived goodness and actual goodness) and the annihilation of our own transcended potential. Thus, we crucify the Christ potential within ourselves every day through lack of proper action. The result is guilt, shame, alienation, and self justification. But, instead of God bringing forth judgement and condemnation (a projection of our own vindictiveness), God brings forth an offer of forgiveness and redemption. It is in the realization of this unconditional act of acceptance that we overcome those barriers that prevent our own love from growing to fruition (as such, we rise (like Christ) to new levels of authenticity).

I highly recommend this book to those who seek a deeper understanding of the life, death, and resurrection of Christ; an understanding that goes beyond history and into the depths of human cognition.

Honor Moore's biography of her ancester Margarett Sanger, a forgotten painter, is more interesting than this book of Memoir: Poems which lacks exciting language and shows no real imagination or originiality. Moore's position as a well to do WASP on the art scene and her patronage of arts has earned her a place in poetry which is not deserved by her modicum of talent. She should stick with patronage of the arts and not attempt to invade the artist's domain. For one example, her poem on nuclear holocaust, lacks all sincereity as it shows no knowledge of the reality of nuclear war, and no understanding of the science of what it would mean. It falls flat. Her understanding of AIDS is more compelling, as this subject seems to be something she knows a bit about. Moore is a poor poet and a better prose writer. Her tone is false and language lacks depth and sincerity. She should stick with her modicum of talent for prose and writing about her famous ancesters, and stay out of the poetry world where her work always falls flat and sounds dull in tone. Her use of forms is forced and her musical ear lacking. There are better poets to spend time with who deal with subjects like these. Memoir-Poems was not worth the price. Read Maxine Kumin, Adrianne Riche, Denise Levertov, Grace Paley, Daniela Gioseffi, Sharon Olds, June Jordan for some really poetic writing on many of these attempted subjects. Moore is okay, but nothing exciting or original glows from these pages.

...to respond to a previous reviewer, but I can't let this mean spirited one stand as the only review to this book !
It may not be a great book, but it certainly is a good one...with the ability to engage the reader and tell a story in a way that can be very moving at times.

To fault someone for the color of their skin (WASP is as stupid a stereotype as any other), and the money in their pocket, is unconscionable and ignorant...and to be so critical and remain anonymous cowardly.
Add to that an F for spelling.

The grandmother mentioned is Margarett Sargent (not the birth control pioneer named), and the biography is the much acclaimed "The White Blackbird".

Ms. Moore has the ability to write in a way that I get a visual "picture" of her words...my favorite is:
"Anyone who calls a broken heart
a metaphor hasn't seen the crack".
I've had this book for many years, and it's been with me through my many moves, which says a lot for it, as so many volumes get weeded out as the boxes get packed. It's an old friend, one that speaks to me of tenderness, vulnerability, and emotional survival.

NYRB Classics was started a few years ago with the intention of re-issuing neglected cult favorite books which had fallen out of print; though many of their choices have been superb, a very few leave you scratching your head, wondering who is making the choices.

GREAT GRANNY WEBSTER is one such choice. By all accounts, Caroline Blackwood was a fascinating woman: heriess to the Guinness fortune, she counted among her sexual conquests Lucian Freud and Robert Lowell, and was a bewitching raconteur and bon vivant. But she wasn't much of a writer. Blackwood seemed never to have learned the lesson that a good fiction writer must show rather than tell. As a result, in this novel she tells us and tells us and tells us again what a monster the title character is, but Great-Granny Webster herself doesn't actually do much but sit around and show poor hospitality to her guests and relations. Yet still the narrator keeps fulminating against her for crimes mostly implied rather than real; as in Caroline Blackwood's final book, THE LAST OF THE DUCHESS, where she simultaneously weighed in again and again against the Duchess of Windsor's female lawyer, you begin to develop a perverse sympathy for the object of Blackwood's fury.

Even had this book accomplished what it set out to do it wouldn't have been much: the two main characters, Great-Granny Webster and Aunt Lavinia, seem like nothing readers haven't already seen (respectively) in Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. The really interesting story would be to hear who behind the scenes at NYRB brought this dud back into print and under what circumstances: THAT would be a book worth reading.