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Home Sweet Home: China in Minnesota
All of you who've read my posts are awesome. Thank you for following along. While I'm sad to see this journey end, I'm excited with anticipation because this was just my first try. I'll be writing man...
Posted on 10/27/12 at 11:31 AM
New Tpaw video promotes upcoming book
Gov. Tim Pawlenty's new video promoting a book due out on Jan. 11 sounds a lot like a presidential commercial or something that would be shown on the huge televisions screens at a Republican conventio...
Posted on 9/28/10 at 10:03 AM
Dave Wood's Book Report, Dec. 3, 2008
It’s stocking-stuffer time on the prairie and local publishers are stepping up to the presses with a slew of fun books for teenagers of all ages. Remember the movie “Slap Shot,” starring Paul Newman?By Dave Wood , December 03, 2008
Dave Wood’s Book Report, Nov. 19, 2008
Here’s a trio of new autobiographies that cover lots of time and lots of ground.By Dave Wood , November 19, 2008
Dave Wood’s Book Report, Nov. 12, 2008
Powerful military nation decides its time to teach a lesson to small Moslem nation, certain that its people will welcome the enlightened country’s victory over outmoded religious country whose time had come and gone centuries before.By Dave Wood , November 12, 2008
Dave Wood’s Book Report, Nov. 5, 2008
“Red osier dogwood, the Indians called it kinnickinnic, took inside their lungs smoke from the bark mixed with bear root and tobacco leaves.By Dave Wood , November 05, 2008
Dave Wood's Book Report, Oct. 29, 2008
There’s an old saying that goes “The reason most academic debates are so prevalent and so acrimonious is that there is so little at stake.”By Dave Wood , October 29, 2008
Dave Wood's Book Report, Oct. 22, 2008
I guess I’m showing my age. I got all excited when I received for review “Goodbye, Wisconsin,” by Glenway Wescott (Borderland Books, $28).October 22, 2008
Dave Wood's Book Report, Oct. 8, 2008
Every once in awhile, you read a book that makes you hopping mad. When I was in college, my grandfather gave me an old book by Upton Sinclair, entitled “The Jungle.”By Dave Wood , October 08, 2008
Dave Wood's Book Report, Oct. 1, 2008
There’s something comforting about reading novels set in places where you’re fairly well acquainted.By Dave Wood , October 01, 2008
Dave Wood's Book Report, Sept. 24, 2008
One of the first novels ever written in English, in 1740, was a humdinger named “Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded,“ by a London businessman Samuel Richardson.By Dave Wood , September 24, 2008
Dave Wood's Book Report, Sept. 17, 2008
Two years ago, I watched the long PBS special on Mormonism. I was shocked to learn of the Mormons’ massacre of 120 non-Mormon settlers who had moved into Utah in 1857. The reportage was just a small part of the PBS special and I longed to hear more.By Dave Wood , September 17, 2008
Dave Wood's Book Report, Sept. 10, 2008
I keep getting bombarded with books that bring back memories of growing up in a small Wisconsin town. Last week it was Larry Tobin’s novel about small town journalism. This week it’s “In a Pickle: A Family Farm Story,” by Jerry Apps (Terrace Books, $16.95).By Dave Wood , September 10, 2008
Dave Wood’s Book Report, July 16, 2008
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.By Dave Wood , July 16, 2008
Dave Wood’s Book Report, July 9, 2008
On a recent trip to Great Britain my wife and I were pointedly reminded that the United States is running out of independent bookstores.By Dave Wood , July 09, 2008
Dave Wood’s Book Report, July 2, 2008
St. Paul poet Margaret Hasse is out with her third book, “Milk and Tides,” (Nodin Press, $16). Hasse writes about motherhood, aging, her childhood memories of South Dakota.By Dave Wood , July 02, 2008
Dave Wood’s Book Report, June 25, 2008
Heading for the lake? There’s all manner of new books to take along for the rainy day.By Dave Wood’s Book Report , June 25, 2008
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