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FINDING YOUR ROOTS: HOW TO TRACE YOUR ANCESTORS AT HOME AND ABROAD by Jeane Eddy Westin (Tarcher/Putnam). Westin's updated book is the best friend a new family historian can have. Well organized and well researched, Finding Your Roots shows the reader how to make genealogy fun rather than drudgery--how to stay organized, the secret of keeping yourself from feeling as if you're up a family tree rather than building...
...Prayer for the Dying hits direct about faith and religion, not subtly or from behind. As O'Nan remarks, "Thematically it's precisely the same as all my other books. It's always about hope and despair." Because the reader senses only through Jake, he hears Jake's internal question explicitly...
...leaves his reader asking himself. "You're not sure anymore, are you?" Almost all certainties have been tossed aside. The good have gone bad; all efforts have failed. Yet there is hope, there is reassurance. "Hell is yourself, in a way." O'Nan explains. "So you always want to go back to the ones you love...
Through the insanity the reader is asked to return and to love once again, even if that love is the madness...
...perfect masculine celebrity, but also the eventual realization that the photograph seems almost completely unnecessary. The picture of Hemingway the man, down to the vague disapproval in the lips that seems to mask some deep sadness, springs fully formed from the pages of his fiction. Does it shock any reader of those tragic and romantic books, stately and muscular, that Hemingway's fingers are thick and his glasses a severe but stylish stainless steel? A man already visibly present in his works became nearly inescapable at the centennial, in the actual shadow of his huge iconic face, and the myths...