Featured Reviews

The Midnight House (2010) - Alex Berenson  (Grade:B+)

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The Samaritan's Secret (Omar Yussef Mysteries) (2010) - Matthew Beynon Rees  (Grade:A-)

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Making Mischief: A Maurice Sendak Appreciation (2009) - Gregory Maguire  (Grade:C+)

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Revelation Space (2000) - Alastair Preston Reynolds  (Grade:B)

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Last Journey: A Father and Son in Wartime (2009) - Darrell Griffin  (Grade:A)

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Heart of the Assassin (2009) - Robert Ferrigno  (Grade:A+)

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03/11/10:

Douglas Adams (1952-) was born in Cambridge, England on March 11, 1952. Read Orrin's review of Last Chance to See (1990)(Douglas Adams (1952-) and Mark Carwardine) (Grade: A-)

Lawrence Welk bubbled forth in Strasburg, North Dakota on March 11, 1903

Bix Beiderbecke (1903-) was born in Davenport, IA on March 10, 1903. Read Orrin's review of Young Man with a Horn (1938)(Dorothy Baker) (Grade: B-)

H.W. Fowler was born March 10, 1858. Brothers Judd recommends A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926) (Second Edition, 1965) (H. W. Fowler 1858-1933) (revised and edited by Sir Ernest Gowers)

Composer Samuel Barber (1910-81) was born in West Chester, PA on March 9, 1910.

Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, Italy on March 9, 1451.

Mickey Spillane (1918-) was born in Brooklyn, NY on March 9, 1918. Read Orrin's review of I, the Jury (1947)(Mickey Spillane 1918-) (Grade: C+)

Rex (Ernest) Warner (1905-86) was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England on March 9, 1905. Read Orrin's review of The Aerodrome: A Love Story (1941)

March 8 is INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY, a day that's been celebrated all over the world since 1910.

Kenneth Grahame (1859-) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on March 8, 1859. Read his classic The Wind in the Willows online.

John McPhee (1931-) was born in Princeton, NJ on March 8, 1931.

Robert Frost's (1874-1963) poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" was published in The New Republic on March 7, 1923.

The Alamo fell on March 6, 1836.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born on March 6th, 1806. Among her poems was "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."

Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-55) was born in Paris on March 6, 1619. Read Orrin's review of Cyrano de Bergerac (1897)(Edmond Rostand 1868-1918) (Grade: A+)

Ring Lardner (1885-1933) was born in Niles, MI on March 6, 1885. Read Orrin's review of You Know Me, Al: A Busher's Letters (1914)(Grade: A)

In addition to being the Birthday of the Father of the Brothers Judd, March 5th is also the anniversary of the Boston Massacre in 1770. Crispus Attucks, one of the victims, became one of America's first Black heroes.

Henry II (1133-), first Plantagenet king of England, was born in France on March 5, 1133. His wife was Eleanor of Aquitaine. Brothers Judd recommends the terrific film, The Lion in Winter.

Howard Pyle (1853-) was born in Wilmington, DE on March 5, 1853.

Frank Norris (1870-) was born in Chicago, IL on March 5, 1870.