Review by Lynda La Rocca
Favorite Books – December 2004 – Colorado Central Magazine
READING IS MY DRUG of choice, and 2004 has been filled with events that generated the need for more than my usual amount of medication.
Favorite Books
Some Personal Favorites from 2003
Review by Lynda La Rocca
Favorite Books – December 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
I’ve always been fascinated by the way a seemingly inconsequential act can generate unimaginably far-reaching — and unforeseen — consequences.
In House of Sand and Fog, a clerical error sparks a crisis that engulfs the novel’s protagonists and culminates in a tragedy that, while almost preordained, is nevertheless profoundly shocking.
Some personal favorites
Review by Lynda La Rocca
Favorite books – January 2001 – Colorado Central Magazine
AFTER WATCHING A MARVELOUS BBC America production of Charles Dickens’ 19th-century classic David Copperfield a couple of months ago, I became obsessed with all things Dickens.
Not having read any of Dickens’ novels since college (with the exception of my annual rereading of A Christmas Carol, a book I extolled in a December, 1996, Colorado Central column), I’d almost forgotten how prodigiously talented — and timeless — a writer Dickens is.
Some Interesting Books from 1999
Review by Martha Quillen
Favorite Books – January 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
TIME, LOVE, MEMORY, A Great Biologist and his Quest for the Origins of Behavior by Jonathan Weiner is a beautifully written book relating some of the history of DNA research. Weiner makes understanding complicated genetic research easy — by illuminating the stories of the scientists, and even the fruit flies. By the time you finish, you’ll not only have a fair idea about how we got from Mendel to modern genetic engineering, you might even harbor a fond affection for those surprisingly complex little insects who gave their all to this research.
Some Personal Favorites from 1999
Review by Lynda La Rocca
Favorite Books – January 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
THIS YEAR, my choices are all over the map — and I mean that both literally and figuratively.
For a taste of genuine, death-defying adventure, the kind we moderns pay exorbitant sums to be carefully guided through, pick up a copy of The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1998).