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Raptor Red

Dinosaur Drama... Author: Robert Bakker One hundred and twenty million years ago, they were the predator kings and queens of western North America.  While their reign only lasted four million years, packs of Utahraptor terrorized the local herbivores both large and small.  Based on the fossil record, Raptor Red tells the story of the title character as she and her family struggle to survive in the Jurassic. Paleontologist Robert T. Bakker, penning his first novel, initially became famous as author of The Dinosaur Heresies (1986), which proposed that dinosaurs were warm-blooded, fast, intelligent and more closely related to birds than [...]

2016-12-31T17:57:34-07:00March 18th, 2012|Tags: |

Brave Girl Eating

Exploring Anorexia It’s a very rare circumstance under which I will say – to anyone – “you must read this book”.  Everyone has different tastes and while I might recommend something that I enjoy, I’m unlikely to thrust a copy into someone’s hands with instructions that it will change how they see the world.  But Brave Girl Eating isn’t a regular book and I have just placed it firmly in my husband’s hands and said “you must read this book”.  If you were here in my house right now, chances are I would do the same to you – whoever [...]

2016-12-31T17:57:34-07:00March 18th, 2012|Tags: , , , |

Olive Kitteridge

Her Town Popular culture tends to portray small towns as places where everyone knows everything about everyone else.  Every scandal, misfortune or eccentricity is passed through the small grapevine until nothing is secret.  Olive Kitteridge lives in a small town and through her eyes and her life we come to understand just how much people do not know about those among whom they have lived their whole lives. Olive Kitteridge is an interestingly presented novel.  Each chapter is its own vignette, telling a small slice of the life of one person, couple or family.  Sometimes the reader is learning things [...]

2016-12-31T17:57:36-07:00March 18th, 2012|Tags: , , |
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