The following review appeared on Being the Best Book Review: How to write a Non-Fiction book in 60 Days – by Paul LimaIf I had to pinpoint the one major problem I had in my business, it was the writing. I’m just not gifted in this area. I struggle. I procrastinate. I would clean my entire house when I knew I had to sit down and write something. But writing is vital to all of…
The Lady’s Stratagem: A Repository of 1820s Directions for the Toilet, Mantua-Making, Stay-Making, Millinery & Etiquette Edited, translated, and with additional material by Frances Grimble Trade Paperback, 1 2/3 x 11, 755 pages ISBN 978-0-9636517-7-8 $75.00US, $94.11CDN The Lady’s Stratagem is a tome of historic proportions, not just because of its historic nature, but breadth of information. Translated from the original French text, The Lady’s Stratagem of the 1820s offers advice, directions and commentary on…
Shireen Jeejeebhoy was born in London and spent her formative years in India. In 1968, she arrived in Canada where she attended local public schools before attending the University of Toronto, earning a degree in psychology. She has also been deeply interested in medicine, her father Dr. Jeejeebhoy being the doctor who treated Judy Taylor. Her new book “Lifeliner” is about his work helping Judy. Shireen personally knew Judy and is the perfect person to…
The Penelopiad, by Margaret Atwood, certainly isn’t what I expected. But, then, Margaret Atwood has a way of doing that, delivering the unexpected. Somehow she delivers in The Penelopiad not only a fascinating insight into Penelope’s version of the famous Homerian epic, but does so with cutting wit, almost vaudevillian asides, all the while disseminating little known archeological and historical background which is craftily woven into the fabric of the whole. Absolutely recommend this book!
Good but not Great Ysabel, set in modern Provence, is a tale about recurring tales, a theme that was visited in Kay’s best-selling work, Fionavar Tapestry. As such, I found the story not particularly fresh, which is unusual for most of GGK’s work. A pity, because certainly this author has a lyrical voice, one that can utterly captivate a reader as he did in Tigana and Last Light of the Sun. The characters in Ysabel…