Review: A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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Review: Class Action

Class Action by Clara Bingham
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co.

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Review: The Dominie Books

The Dominie Books by A.S. Neill
My rating: 0 of 5 stars



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Review: If I Had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left

If I Had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left by Out Of Print
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

The difference is that my interpretation presupposes the good intentions and psychological soundness of those involved (when I think other-wise, as in a few instances, I indicate as much). One need not have been suffering from any psychological disturbance to have been ap-palled by the prospect of nuclear war, or the conduct of the Vietnam War...

Resistance to something was the law of New England nature; the boy looked out on the world with the instinct of resistance; for numberless generations his predecessors had viewed the world chiefly as a thing to be reformed, filled with evil forces to be abolished, and they saw no reason to suppose that they had wholly succeeded in the abolition; the duty was unchanged. That duty implied not only resistance to evil, but hatred of it. ... Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, had always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

-The Education of Henry Adams

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Review: Tommy: The Musical

Tommy: The Musical by Pete Townshend
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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Review: Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce

Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce by Brenda Maddox
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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Review: Chasing Evil: Shocking Crimes, Supernatural Forces, and an FBI Agent’s Search for Hope and Justice

Chasing Evil: Shocking Crimes, Supernatural Forces, and an FBI Agent’s Search for Hope and Justice by Robert Hilland
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This book chronicling the career of former police officer and FBI Special Agent Robert Hilland includes several cases, first and most prominently that of murderer John Smith. What ties the cases together is that this is about Psychic John Edward and Agent Hilland's crime-solving partnership. That's a lot for me to take. I am a skeptic and while I have to say if all the experiences recounted here were my experiences, I certainly would be a believe in contact with spirits of the deceased. Now, I wish Joe Nickell was around to give an investigative side to the Hilland-Edward claims specifically as he has with Edward in "Hustling the Bereaved", etc.

Over the telling, Hilland gets his own spirit guide of sorts in Smith's wife and victim Fran. He even has photographic evidence, but we don't get to see it?

I flipped back and forward, checking photos 17 and 19. They were clear. But frame 18 looked like an entity had stepped in front of my lens as I snapped the picture. The shape of a head, a face. It was Fran, looking directly into the camera lens at me.

Well, I am reading an ARC edition, so maybe it will be printed in the final edition.

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