Too Few the Mornings Be (Sheet music) Review

His songs sometimes swing easily around your ears and sometimes hit you
like a mischievous cat with it's claws out.
Leighton Kerner, The Village Voice

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Composer Ricky Ian Gordon has given us another masterpiece in the form of eleven songs written for soprano voice with piano: Too Few the Mornings Be, based on the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Written specially for the great Renee Fleming, this collection contains a personal note from Fleming herself, praising the beauty and freedom of the songs within, saying I love how you write for the voice; the vocal line moves freely throughout the whole range. This simple, elegant collection is truly a gift to soprano soloists. For the advanced singer.

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Bringing Peace to a Changing World: Sunday Mornings in Plains: Bible Study with Jimmy Carter [Abridged, Audiobook] [Audio CD] Review

Now I have the other two that are currently available in this series and I rated those 5-stars each.I like Jimmy Carter and he can deliver a very good Bible study.Unfortunately this one is not at all up to the standards his others.

This particular book on CD covers just a little of the book of Isaiah.Unlike the other Bible studies by Jimmy Carter, he didn't spend much of any time explaining the material.But this was the first in the series and he spent his time explaining other things that were happening in his life at the time.He talks a lot instead of the book he had written contemporary with this book on CD, called Christmas in Plains.He was promoting that book at the time.He even said several times during this Bible study that he wasn't going to spend much time on the actual bible study, and he didn't.

It's a shame because Isaiah is an interesting book.Isaiah lived about 2,700 years ago and is believed to have prophesied for about forty-five years or so.At that time, Isreal and Judah were caught between two major powers, Assyria and Egypt.The big concern at any moment was which of the two powers to side with.

My view on Bringing Peace to a Changing World is that it lacks focus and should not have been included with the other two books.You can see the other two books here: Leading a Worthy Life: Sunday Mornings in Plains: Bible Study with Jimmy Carter and Measuring Our Success: Sunday Mornings in Plains: Bible Study with Jimmy Carter.

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The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis (Paperback) Review

Once you get past the communist/revolutionary rhetoric of the 60's-70's,a portrait of a bright, intelligent human being is exposed.
The case of Angela Davis is important for many reasons - but most importantly the right to free speech and to believe as you wish. That is what makes this country great.

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On August 7, 1970, a revolt by Black prisoners in a Marin County courthouse stunned the nation. In its aftermath, Angela Davis, an African American activist-scholar who had campaigned vigorously for prisoners' rights, was placed on the FBI's "ten most wanted list." Captured in New York City two months later, she was charged with murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy. Her trial, chronicled in this "compelling tale" (Publishers Weekly), brought strong public indictment. The Morning Breaks is a riveting firsthand account of Davis's ordeal and her ultimate triumph, written by an activist in the student, civil rights, and antiwar movements who was intimately involved in the struggle for her release.
First published in 1975, and praised by The Nation for its "graphic narrative of [Davis's] legal and public fight," The Morning Breaks remains relevant today as the nation contends with the political fallout of the Sixties and the grim consequences of institutional racism. For this edition, Bettina Aptheker has provided an introduction that revisits crucial events of the late 1960s and early 1970s and puts Davis's case into the context of that time and our own--from the killings at Kent State and Jackson State to the politics of the prison system today. This book gives a first-hand account of the worldwide movement for Angela Davis's freedom and of her trial. It offers a unique historical perspective on the case and its continuing significance in the contemporary political landscape.

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Tuesday Nights and Wednesday Mornings: A Novella and Stories (Paperback) Review

SICK NOTES, the novella, in this collection is just plain terrific. Writer has a knack for witty dialogue and descriptive passages that make the city she lives in come alive. Even though there is humor throughout, not in your face type of humor, but the kind Ipreffer: understated and honest, because the situations the characters find themselves in (not in and of themselves blatantly funny), are genuine and have happened, at one time or another, to so many of us.

Havng said that, there is no denying that a tone of quiet melancholy runs through SICK NOTES that reminds us of Sylvia Plath's great masterpiece, THE BELL JAR.
No, noone attempts suicide here, nothing like that.The main character, Esther, is drifting, in and out of relationships. Fairly unhappy, not certain what it is she is looking for--or is even confident that it wouldmake her happy if she found it.
I don't think you have to be in your 20s, the protagonist's age, to be able to relate to this.

The rest of the volume consists of short stories that didn't work for me. I don't blame the author, either.

Short stories are simply a bi*ch to pull off. Not many can do it. Some writers out there think that all they have to do is spring a death on you at the end; that's it, they've got a great one, a real winner. Or else, somehow they're convinced that all they have to do is ambush the reader with a punch line, out of the blue. Wham. What a curve ball, what an ending.

Well, they are deluding themselves. Andam not saying that Gwendoline Riley is guilty of this, because she isn't. In fact, she is way too smart to resort to any of these cheap tricks that only a lesser talent would opt for.
Anyway, that's not how it's done--in my humble opinion. Writing an amzing short story is, akin, to scaling Mt. Everest--in lit terms. The toughest literary task to pull off. Tougher than the novel, tougher than the poem, tougher than the screenplay or writing for the stage.

Charles Bukowski was one of the very few who knew how to shake you up with a dynamic short story; he had a way of grabbing you by the nutsa*k and throwing your sorry a** against the wall. His stories made you laugh your bu*t off, or shook you down to your boots--at times did both--and then some.
Now, that's what a short story should do to you. Buk was the champ at it. Kept you reading, wanting more.

Last bit: Loved Gwen's SICK NOTES. Will have to read some of the other novels by her to see where this considerable gift of hers takes her.


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Plucked from the rainy streets of Manchester, award-winning author Gwendoline Riley's novella and stories explore the diminishing prospects of true love, the daunting face of God, and the aftereffects of too much time at the bar with a devotion she likens to "lying on a rest room floor saying the Jesus prayer." In the titular novella, the centerpiece of the collection, we meet Esther, an emotionally capricious twenty-something, part-time struggling writer, and skeptical romantic. Esther loses herself on the streets of Manchester, her adopted home, and explores it with ritual fervor. Although her best friend Donna provides a steady source of emotional succor, Esther adopts a loner's guise in the face of a broken home and a series of less-than-storybook romances. However, when a young American musician enters her life she comes face-to-face with the intimacy she so desperately seeks. Riley has created a cast of characters that embody both an enigmatic reticence, and a graceful emotionalism. Tuesday Nights and Wednesday Mornings confirms Riley as one of the most talented new voices in fiction today.

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Confession (Z Graphic Novels / Hand of the Morning Star) (v. 3) [Paperback] Review

These graphic novels have captured my kids interest.They are also subtling teaching us something.Satan is referred to as the star of the morning in Isaiah.I do not believe that the Morningstar is Jesus, but Satan masquerading as an angel of light.I believe that in the books to come Zondervan will reveal this more fully.Clues, such as not praying to Jesus, but Morningstar, evolutionary comments, killing just to kill, these are not how Jesus operates. The missionary & his daughter in Argentina are seeing this also.I love the books,as do my kids, and I believe that it will show us not to just blindly trust in those who claim to be of God.

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When Michael reveals himself as the Tempest, he will find out whether the one he loves and the larger public will embrace or reject him.

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Joy in the Morning: A Mother's Journey from Tragedy to Triumph (Paperback) Review

Joy Strickland wants the reader to understand that finding peace and joy in the certainty of life is a conscious choice. It has taken some 15+ years for her to tell the story about how she learned to live through the pain and anguish that accompanied the murder of her eldest son, Chris.Amazingly, her story is one of choosing to see the light again; of choosing to feel the warmth of the sun; of choosing to smell the scent of a new day's dawn."Joy In the Morning" is a revelation of choosing to once more believe in the human spirit; in the wake of violently being thrust into a parallel universe without warning.

Whether one is spiritual, religious, or agnostic does not matter.Strickland takes on what could easily have evolved into a self-serving dirge, and instead lets you see how she crawled, then stumbled, regained her footing, re-examined all she thought was certain about living, and learned how to integrate the life she led prior to this tragedy to discover an even better life afterwards.

This is not a self-help book.No, it is certainly not.Rather, it is an honest portrait of the certainty one can achieve by making honest choices when facing the unknown.Hear her song as you turn each page.

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Chris Lewis met Kendrick Lott at St. Philip's Episcopal School in Dallas where the two worked as camp counselors. Chris, a Morehouse College student, had graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas one year earlier. Kendrick planned to attend Morehouse in the fall. But instead of becoming Morehouse brothers, the teens died together, brutally slain by two drugged out gang-bangers looking for someone to carjack.Chris was Joy Strickland's son and Joy in the Morning is her inspirational memoir of unspeakable tragedy, healing and profound change. Joy in the Morning is a valiant contribution to the field of grief memoirs. Here we have that rare title written by the mother of a murdered child. Strickland punctuates her story with her original poems and her reflections are the perfect complement, giving her book depth and texture.Strickland, a former IBM marketing executive, is founder and CEO of Mothers Against Teen Violence in Dallas. She says, "I have written this book believing that my experience will encourage and inspire others to see their challenges as an opportunity for personal transformation. I believe that healing and wholeness are accessible to us all; that joy is our divine right; and sharing this message is an important part of my purpose in life."

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Morning Sky (Freedoms Path Series #2) [Bargain Price] [Paperback] Review

Morning Sky is the second book in Judith Millers Freedom's Path Series about the Harban and Boyle families. Nicodemus, Kansas is settled by predominatly African-American familes while neighboring Hill City is mostly white.

Exekiel Harban is doing his best to keep his family together following the death of his wife. Then Lily Verdue, his sister-in-law, arrives from New Orleans. Exekiel suspects Lily is running from someone, which doesn't surprise him one bit. A free spirited woman who makes her own rules, Lily is not the kind of person he wants living in the same house with his daughters.

Before long, Lily starts to cause just the kind of trouble Exekiel feared. She tries to break up Truth's engagement to Moses Wyman, because she feels he would be better suited to Jarena. Nevermind that Jarena is in love with Thomas, who is serving in the army, fighting Indians. Lily is a woman of the world and knows what is best for her sheltered nieces.

Dr. Boyle asks Truth to travel to New York to see about his daughter Macia, who is enrolled in an exclusive finishing school. Macia has been sick ever since reaching the city. Truth uncovers a diabolic scheme which could be fatal to her friend.

The characters in Judith Miller's Morning Sky are so skillfully developed you will feel as if you know them as real people. Morning Sky is an intriguing story guaranteed to hold the readers attention from start to finish.

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(Freedom's Path Book 2) Nothing will ever be the same after boisterous Aunt Lilly Verdue arrives in the new settlement of Nicodemus, Kansas, in the early summer of 1880. Her brother-in-law is not at all happy to see her, and her unwillingness to admit the reason behind her hasty exit from New Orleans only fuels the fire. She's not content to peacefully join the little farming community. No, Lilly manages to shake things up even further when she decides Moses Wyman is engaged to the wrong sister!

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