Book bits
A Q&A with Carl Bernstein, three books about pirates, an outdoor adventure reading list, and readers' picks.
from the July 3, 2007 edition
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Readers' picks
Seventy-five pages into Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer-winning Angle of Repose, I'm fully engaged. The artful merging of the narrator's voice as a wheelchair-bound historian writing from his home in
Grass Valley, Calif., with the touching story of his grandmother's journey west 100 years earlier is heartbreakingly beautiful.
– Bob Clark, Clearwater, Fla.
Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World by Alan Weisman tells of the development of a self-sustaining village in the isolated savanna of eastern Colombia by a group
of visionaries, engineers and technicians, artisans, peasants, and natives to prove they could survive in the most brutal
environment imaginable. This is one of the most exciting books I have read in ages.
– Deanna Young, Seattle
Katharine Graham's memoir Personal History tells the dual stories of her development into the powerful woman publisher of The Washington Post newspaper, against the
historical backdrop of JFK, LBJ, the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. And those are only two of the fascinating elements of
this book.
– Art Scott, Flagstaff, Ariz.
I lived through the time depicted in March to a Promised Land, The Civil Rights Files of a White Reporter, 1952-1968, but was still unprepared for the stunning writing found in this book by former UPI journalist Al Kuettner. At the end, I
felt I had been part of the march!
– Radine Trees Nehring, Gravette, Ark.
At roughly 700 pages, Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man seemed daunting, but thanks to Dale Petersons deft hand at storytelling I was fully engaged all the way through. This is
one I'll read again.
– Gina Hanzsek, Snohomish, Wash..
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