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'The Circle Dance of Time' -- Finding Stillness and Solace in Our Modern World
By David Gibson - Politics DailyReading is a religious act. We hope it is also something spiritual, but above all it is a ritual designed to create a space where something sacred, or akin to the sacred, can happen. It may not. In that regard, reading is much like ritual prayer, or perhaps the sabbath. We follow the traditions, wait, and pray for the best. Even unbelievers cannot easily resist this logic. "Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and -- since there is no other metaphor -- also the soul," the cancer-stricken atheist and man of letters, Christopher Hitchens, once wrote. A new book by Father John S. ...
'The Obama Diaries': 4 Most Outrageous Fake First Family Quotes
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(July 14) -- Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham has the inside scoop on the Obama family's personal life -- sort of. Ingraham's new book, "The Obama Diaries," released Tuesday by Threshold Editions, delves into the "secret diary" of the president, vice president, first lady and first mother-in-law. How was Ingraham blessed with the unlikely fate of encountering such a coveted personal account inside the Obama administration? From a secret informant similar to how the Watergate scandal developed, apparently: While Ingraham doesn't take kindly to her work being labeled as fiction -- ...
Unwritten Rules Get Written in Entertaining Book
By Jeff Fletcher - AOL NewsWhat we love about baseball's unwriten rules is when someone breaks one of them. That is when tempers flare and angry words get fired through the media and replayed endlessly on ESPN. If you think it sure would make an entertaining book to detail these kind of things, you'd be right. "The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime," by Jason Turbow and Michael Duca, provides just what you'd expect. Released this spring, the book (Random House, $25) is a few hundred pages of baseball stories, mostly about grown men getting ...
The Reviews Are In for Palin's 'Going Rogue'
By David Knowles - AOL News(Nov. 16) -- Advance reviews have already started to pop up. As Palin prepares to blitz the nation to promote the book -- from interviews with Oprah and Barbara Walters to a 14-state book tour -- reviewers are offering a variety of opinions on how the former governor did in her debut as an author. Michiko Kakutani, the grand doyenne of letters at The New York Times, notes that Palin spends a sizable portion of the book attacking John McCain's advisers: "The most sustained and vehement barbs in this book are directed not at Democrats or liberals or the news media, but at the McCain campaign. ...
My Empire Tis of Thee...
By James Daubs - Politics DailyReview of Thomas F. Madden, "Empires of Trust" (New York: Dutton, 2008, $25.95; paperback, Plume Books, 2009, $17)The French demographer Emmanuel Todd made quite a splash in 1976 when he predicted the fall of the Soviet Union, basing his prediction on declining Soviet birth rates and other demographic factors. His prescience in regard to the Soviet Empire seems to have lent a great deal of credibility to his later works, including 2003's "After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order," which was much lauded in France before being alternately skewered and praised in the United States as ...
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