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 Forte Abate’s prose is well-constructed and engaging. The beach, sometimes silent, brooding, sometimes carefree and light is a wonderful character that absorbs and reflects the inner lives of its human occupants. Even now I can see this beach with its stone jetty dotted with fishermen; feel its salty breath on my skin. In this Forte Abate has excelled.
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 One can discern a playful intelligence at work here, behind all the anxiety and uneasiness, though naturally the novel is not entirely a comedy. In certain respects it puts one in mind of Thomas Love Peacock: because the bulk of the novel is rendered in dialogue and because the people (they are too real to be called characters) are so unusual, at least to us, some 85 years later.
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 There are some hilarious incongruities in the novel, occasioned by the fact that thoughts are more uncensored than speech. And Nanase’s clairvoyance also gives rise to some unusual dramatic moments: in chapter 4, for example, Nanase narrowly escapes rape because she is able to read her attacker’s intentions.
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 Introduction to French Poetry provides a lovely and well-structured overview which will help show the relationship between poets – how one historical movement gave rise to another, as well as to provide a beginner’s sense of the many different styles and symbols of the poetic giants who shaped the French poetic landscape.
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 This is no trivial message. It’s at the heart of a purposeful life, and in a world where nearly all of the media messages that are being bombarded at us are focused on the opposite – consume, scan, move fast from one interest to the next, and live life lightly, this is critically, utterly important. This is a book that should be read by everyone who wants to live their life in a way that is vital and leaves some kind of legacy.
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 Rosendorf has again crafted a properly delivered spine tingling work filled with twists and turns, characters who appear as they are not, and others who perform as expected. Locales are well detailed, action is intense, red herrings are tossed in to create some unexpected situations and turn arounds.
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 The author of Cut Short talks about her debut novel, her ambitions, her schedule, her titles, her upcoming second novel, her ideal reader, and lots more.
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 Above all this book is the story of a journey - both for Bronson, and perhaps more powerfully, his mother, and their transition from disabled victims trying to get by, to super-abled victors changing the system and creating art and meaning in ways that open doors for others.
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 The book is pitched in such a way that it can be used by those who are just starting out, people who will want to follow it’s step-by-step approach from cover to cover, or those more experienced, who can gain ideas and inspiration from what is working well for Bowerman and his colleagues.
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 Her common-sense, Victorian morality and sense of propriety are in continual conflict with the yearning she feels for the attractive, charismatic, highly intelligent European Wagner whom she also admires because of their common love of Literature, Music, Science and his modern ideas about the place of a woman in society.
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