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Can you guess how many iPads will be sold this holiday season? According the the technology research firm Gartner about 63.4 million media tablets will be sold in the last three months of this year, a...
Posted on 12/20/11 at 11:25 AM
Book Report: Imagine: Holocaust in comic book form 
Several years ago, my more sophisticated colleagues on the National Book Critics Circle Board were raving about a new book.
By Dave Wood, columnist , October 21, 2011
Book Report: Got time for a very scary story?
The girl looks up at him again. Dark eyes narrow beneath her curls.
By Dave Wood, columnist , October 13, 2011
Book Report: Murder mystery, romance revolves in Amish community
Forty years ago, when Amish families began buying up farms in western Wisconsin, my father wasn’t too enthused. He owned a business on Main Street in Whitehall, and worried that the incursion of buggies, beards and black bonnets might hurt his business.
By Dave Wood, columnist , October 05, 2011
Book Report: These two works double my pleasure
Today, two books about two very different men who were born not very far from my own natal place.
By Dave Wood, columnist , September 30, 2011
Book Report: Past U.S. leader rises from the dust heap; Red Wing author composes second work in series
I’ve never thought much about our 20th American president, James Garfield.
September 23, 2011
Book Report: Area authors make good in the world of literature
Long, long ago, Sinclair Lewis wrote an essay entitled “The Long Arm of the Small Town,” in which he admitted that he had left his natal place, Sauk Centre, Minn., but that it was always with him as he went on to become the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
By Dave Wood, columnist , September 19, 2011
Book Report: Twin Cities’ mystery, Norwegian spirit in this week’s spotlight
White Bear Lake, Minn., author Julie Kramer is on a roll. After award winning outings with “Silencing Sam,” “Missing Mark,” and “Stalking Susan,” she’s out with another alliterative title, “Killing Kate” (Atria Books, $23.99).
By Dave Wood, columnist , September 09, 2011
Book Review: Nail poetry? High adventure? Pick one or both for a good read
Lots of people don’t like poetry because they figure the subject matter is full of highfalutin’ stuff they have no interest in, like knights of the round table or beautiful sunsets or romantic rendezvous.
By Dave Wood, columnist , September 02, 2011
Book Report: Fictional tales from outer space, Minneapolis make good reads
“Heaven’s Shadow,” by David S. Goyer and Michael Cassutt (Penguin, $25.95) is a science fiction novel that I’ll bet is heading for moviedom. It concerns a near-Earth object named “Keanu.”
By Dave Wood, columnist , August 25, 2011
Book Report: Read about Ohio ‘briars,’or Twin Cities’ jazz scene in this week’s offerings
Years back, I had a student named Gaylon Kennedy, who hailed from southern Ohio. He regaled me with stories about folks he called “briars,” laborers who came up from Kentucky and West Virginia to work at the steel mills of his hometown, Middletown, Ohio.
By Dave Wood, columnist , August 19, 2011
Book Report: Young adult novels good for a change
In 2003, I had the privilege to speak at a very fine writers’ conference in Eau Claire.
By Dave Wood, columnist , August 12, 2011
Book Report: Mystery or poetry? Take your pick
Tired of crime novels set in Frisco, The Big Apple, LA?
By Dave Wood, columnist , August 05, 2011
Book Report: Look at history this week: American and Spanish
Here’s a book to take to the lake.
July 29, 2011
Book Report: The ‘real’ Glenn Ford revealed, and a book that pokes personal memories
“In hindsight, he becomes more interesting and more drawn to sado-masochism. I suspect he was more, and worse, than the decent guy he pretended to be.”
By Dave Wood, columnist , July 22, 2011
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