Richard Phinney and Scott Whitley have produced the best book on golf in Ireland to date. It's full of first accounts of the Emerald Isles' best courses as well as interesting stories about Irish characters in the world of golf. You'll read it more than once.

The best book ever written about Irish Golf. I read this book in preparation for a trip to Ireland last summer and took it along for the trip. The authors clearly love golf and do a great job in helping to explain why Irish golf is so special. If you only read one book on golf this year, let this one be it. However, after reading the book you might have an uncontrollable desire to make the trip yourself!

This book is a very helpful and unique guide to those who are planning a golfing vacation in Ireland. There is very little information like this in the usual travel books. The authors provide discriptions and history of the top 30 courses in Ireland in a very organized easy to read format. (There is information about 100 other courses as well) There is also some information on where to stay, eat, costs and other sites. Only one criticism, I wish there was more! I would like to know more about the nuts and bolts of getting around with golf clubs, some out of the way golf interests and information on unusual golf (not just the famous). However, I must say, I did appreciate the listing of golf tournaments that foreigners can play

As a person who enjoy life in Taiwan, I am fascinated with the book, especially with the title story. It is simply amazing. Poignant and precise. Also so tasteful. Must-read for people who have loved, known, stayed in Taiwan.

Russ Leong's story collection (finally!!!) is a treat. The title story is especially attractive to me, a person from Taipei City, Taiwan. (Oh yes, Taipei is Sodom in the story) With a poet's sensibility, Leong knows to present the sexuality in Taipei in 1970s in a sensual and pensive fashion. Readers interested in CRYSTAL BOYS and NOTES FROM A DESOLATE MAN should not miss this title story. Also, another story "Geography One" is very compelling.

For readers like myself who have searched out literary quarterlies published in the United States over the last fifteen years, it was a great joy to discover the appearance of this long overdue collection of short stories by Russell Charles Leong. While living in San Francisco in the early '90s, I discovered Leong's writing in a literary quarterly. That story altered the way I viewed the suburban landscape of Los Angeles. It was also one of the finest stories I had read on the experience of lost love. Therefore, I was thrilled to find it as the second story in this collection. The story is "Geography One." Not only is it a must read, it is also an indicator of one of the themes, in this case loss, that underlies this collection. The title story "Phoenix Eyes," equally pungent, also explores the silent devastation of loss. In this case, a loss that can't be properly expressed as a result of cultural constraints imposed by the main character's former lover's family. The emotional scope of these stories is to broad to be forced cleanly into any ethnic or sexual niche. These are stories written by an important and long under-recognized American writer. And as such, one who deserves a wider readership. While this is his first collection of fiction, I can only hope it is not the last. As this collection affirms his talent, this reader hopes Mr Leong follows it with an equally long-overdue memoir or novel.

What Chris & Scott did was allow me to stroll down memory land; bring me back to my younger days growing up in Timmins. The heritage, the way of life. Wow! I am saddened that my 3 boys and daughter will miss out on 'The Rink'. For my peer group, our families were all poor. We had no money. 'The Rink' broke down ALL barriers. The Mahovolich's, Vail's, Lever's.Babando's, Hannigans's, Prentice's, Guidlon's and so on had no money,. But, when we went into 'The Rink', we were equal. And we excelled. 'The Rink' was a way of life. It transcened what living was all about; it really was a contradiction n terms as 'sociologists' would say. For so many of us it was like dying and going to heaven; nothing was wrong with it. When we walked in, the smell was distinct and sooooo familiar. We knew we were at 'home'! We felt secure. When we entered the dressing roomss, we were in a differnet 'mode', one that was somewhat esoteric. The smell of stinky, musty equipment within the sacred, hallowed dressing room was sooo sweet. As our collegues (players) filled in, the commaraderie (as Ken Dryden so poignantly points out in his book THE GAME) is instantly redefined from individuals to a 'team'. 'The Rink' allowed us to be many things to many people. We were more than players and 'they were more than 'fans'. In some respect it ('The Rink') was really the focal point of our lives during the winter months from October until April. If you are not from Northern Canada, this book means nothing to you. If you read it, there is no significance to you, no association. And if you're from the U.S. of A. reading this book is not esoterically confusing, you just won't understand it. IT was not written for people outside of Canada. The unfortunate thing ab out hte book is that it misses 'Rinks' that 'should've ' bee in it. however, we all know that the authors couldn't get all rinks in Canada. So be it. To Chris and Scott, excellent job.

I believe this is one of the most enjoyable books i have ever read about hockey. I especially liked it because myself, and my hockey team, are spoken of in a section of the book. Cuthbert and Russell really capture the history and spirit of some of hockey's most famous institutions. A must-read for hockey players or fans.

Having just returned from a Canadian youth hocky tournament, it was easy to relate to the stories in the book. I felt I was experiencing the history of the rinks told about. Excellent book.

By the time you finish reading this book, if you didn't believe in ghosts, reincarnation or premonitions before, you will now. This is a book that is hard to put down. Each end of chapter has you wanting to know what happens next. Scott Russell Hill has done excellent work in putting out of book of intrigue and wonderment.

I found this book to be fascinating. It's one of those books that you just can't put down. To read about Scott's emotional stress and try to understand how he's been able to deal with everything that's happened to him is amazing. I would definitely recommend reading this book.

Here is a father who takes his son's world seriously. We can learn by his tales the power of passing wisdom along kindly and eloquently, while at the same time listening with attentiveness to the concerns of the future. Because the author is willing to learn from a younger generation, we as readers may learn along with him. He also has lessons of his own, and these are presented respectfully. This book is honest, funny, entertaining, and inspiring without being heavy-handed; a wonderful dose of urgent optimism and a communication between present and future, father and son, writer and reader.

In Scott Russell Sanders' new book, the search is for hope...for his grown children, and for us all. Sanders feels that crying need among our young and gives back his own discoveries in his mid-fifties. In particular his relationship with his college age son are poignant and real. The book seems an antidote of sorts for the lost relationships found in Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild book of Chris McMannes. This is Henry David Thoreau writing here...with a wife and childen...facing the life we all know. He reaches and finds some lasting truths that connect us all.

While the philosophy underlying this work is reminiscent of Thoreau, Sanders writing is much more graceful and his personality more warm and human than the Walden Pond horned frog ever hoped to be. Sanders has a keen eye for the insightful moment and treats himself and his subjects to piercing, yet sympathetic, examinations.

As the daughter of a former U.S. Marine, I wasn't sure I'd like this book. I am pleased to say I not only like it, I fell in love with it. Scott Russell Sanders has more than a way with words, he has a love affair with words. In reading this book, I found a decent man, a thoughtful man of lively intellect. It is a pleasure to be in Mr. Sanders's company even if its only through the medium of the printed word.

It's the lyricism of the writing that first got me. On page two, I was already in the world the main character resides and remained captivated all the way through the novel. The first-person narrator is not depicted as any extraordinary person, but simply as a diligent individual who longs for his own land like many other farmers. It's admirable that the author projects complex historical, political landscapes of the region through the eyes of peasant farmers, realistic, literary "down-to-earth" characters. The book doesn't over-sentimentalize or preach. Yet it helped me better understand the complicated regional tension/balance that history and politics have brought to Istria. Just a final note: Read the translator's foreword after you read the story. The foreword is very informative but somewhat dense, and you might feel a little taken aback from the story you are about to begin if you read it first.

I read Scott Russell Hill's first book "Caught Between Two Worlds" and I loved it. In fact, after I read his first book, I ordered "Psychic" and was looking forward to reading it. It is an unusual story (albeit true) of a guy (Scott) trudging through life, and all the while he is psychic. The oddness of this story is that he doesn't seem to think that that is so unusual, and so his attitude is a little too blase' for my taste. He sees ghosts and UFOs on a regular basis, which to anyone is a little out there!! Somehow, he gets away with it, being so nonchalant, and seeming to think that everyone else does this too. Hmmmmm. No, not everyone is as psychic as you are, Scott, but more power to you anyway!! There is some UFO action in this story also, but he makes it believable somehow with his care-free, no big deal demeanor. So, is this a true story? He thinks it is, and I'm not sure he isn't telling the truth.
Bottom line..........yes, buy the book. I enjoyed it and you might too. For some reason, it seems to hook you the minute you open the front cover, if only to see what the hell he's up to now. Oh yes, and two more things.....he needs to find a lady friend who can settle him down, and he needs to stay at home instead of chasing old loser friends. Smiling more would be good too.

Part of the writing process can be controlled and part cannot: writing feeds on enough time and good work habits. THE PSYCHOLOGY STUDENT WRITER'S MANUAL describes writing as a creative process in need of planning: finding an argument that will keep a discussion going all the way to more than one possible conclusion; fitting in source materials from the Internet and the library; fixing the usual grammar and style mistakes; and following APA style format and source citation. Jill M. Scott et al not only cover psychological correlation, description and experimentation paper writing but also handle genograms, which they clearly explain and illustrate, and professional ethics. The book helps writers in all fields and is every bit as well organized and written as Christopher Thaiss and James F. Sanford's WRITING FOR PSYCHOLOGY.

I admit that this book was assigned to me in a college writing class. However, once I drunk in the words of these essays, I was challenged by Sanders to create essays of my own. The essays move outward, moving from himself and the family that is part of his life to the world that is a part of. Not only does it challenge any writer to reach the honesty that Sanders does, but this book also draws the every day Jane or Jon Doe to think about their own life and to be honest about it. A definate keeper!