April 19, 2012 JMRL Blog “A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.” ― Geraldine Brooks, People of the Book
March 14, 2012 JMRL Blog “… many Latino writers use Spanish in their work because it is an integral part of their experience.” Delia Poey and Virgil Suarez, eds. “Iguana Dreams: New Latino Fiction.”
February 23, 2012 JMRL Blog “A great book combines enlightenment with enchantment. It awakens our imagination and enlarges our humanity.” National Endowment of for the Arts about the Big Read
February 18, 2012 JMRL Blog “So Henry found himself stepping off the bus three stops early and wandering over to the Panama Hotel, a place between worlds when he was a child, a place between times now that he was a grown man.” Jamie Ford writes in “The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet.”
January 20, 2012 JMRL Blog “And of all these things the Albino whale was the symbol. Wonder ye then at the fiery hunt?”
December 22, 2011 JMRL Blog “The Comanches were kind of like the Spartans. Because of their incredible military mastery, which derived from the horse — they were the prototype horse tribe, the tribe that could do more with the horse than any other tribe could.” S. C. Gwynne
December 9, 2011 JMRL Blog “And for those Occupiers who continue to defy police harrassment, I’m going to throw in a few manuals on Arctic survival.” ~ Barbara Ehrenreich in her “Washington Post” article about books and protests.