Whoever reads these entries, could you please let me know how I could get in touch with the author? We are old friends--going way back to Grammar school. If you could please forward this message to her, that would be great.
S. Shea Reed

I think this book was very descriptive and a well writen book. Its perfet for research for anything and my kids loved it. They read it for a week then they asked if there was a nether "Forces and Movement" out that they could read! Thanks, Jeremy Lacocque

Potter's book will be best appreciated by those with a much better understanding of music theory than I. However, I learned something about the personal and musical history of so-called "minimalism." (Potter falls prey to some extent to the problem of reifying an abstraction -- having first grouped some things together into a category, then searching for the true meaning of the category.) Is there a torch passed, so to speak, from Young to Riley to Reich to Glass? Glass is the only one to adamantly deny it, but Potter documents the basis for seeing it just that way (including Reich's influence on Glass). One aspect I am keen to know more about, but which Potter doesn't stress overly much, is the striking confluence of non-Western influences. Young and Riley are both disciples of the North Indian master singer, Pandit Pran Nath, who passed on in 1996. Reich studied both African drumming as well as the gamelan music of Bali. Glass studied Indian music, after being immersed in serialism if I've got the order correct. With the European "classical" tradition at an impasse at the turn of the millennium, it seems only natural that the future would lie in creative fusions and combinations with other traditions. (Not a very original idea, I realize, as evidenced by the recent emphasis of the Kronos Quartet among others.) Minimalism seems by now to be another style that passed into history and critical assessments -- is there an opening there that is being missed?

Rochelle Riley has composed a gem of a book. I really enjoyed the columns. She has a wonderful sense of humor, yet her writing is lyrical with sensitive prose. My schedule makes it difficult for me to read a book cover-to-cover in one sitting. The format of this book, allows me to read one or two short stories and come back a day or two later without losing continuity. It's really a great book. I recommend it highly!

Historian Gordon Cotton's From The Pen Of A She-Rebel: The Civil War Diary Of Emilie Riley McKinly is the fascinating and informative story of Ms. McKinly, told in her own words, as she and her rural Southern neighbors witnessed the depredations of the Civil War. What made Ms. McKinly unique was that she was a Yankee by background, yet she personally embodied deep sympathy for her Confederate neighbors. Extensively annotated vignettes bring to life the travails of living under Union occupation, and paint a vivid picture of a corner of America that was uprooted and changed forever by the surge of history. An epilogue provides as much historical closure as is available concerning Ms. McKinly and her neighbors after the war. From The Pen Of A She-Rebel is a unique and welcome addition to the growing body of Civil War literature available for readers and students today.

Dear Mr. Riley

The book translation has a mistake that I would like to correct. Fig: The word "Fioroni" translate litteraly in english means large flowers. But in this case, in italian "Fioroni" are called the fruits of the first figs crop. Not the flower. Castelvetro was correct, the translation was not. Sincerely Giulio Santillo

This charming, beautifully illustrated story tells what really happens in the bear shop when the lights go out at night. The signed, first edition (limited to 500 signed copies) is quickly becoming a collector's item.

At last, art therapy educators, students and practitioners have a comprehensive text on group art therapy that they can add to their personal libraries - and an excellent one at that. As an educator who has taught group art therapy for many years, I couldn't be happier. I have waited a long time for just such text to make my teaching easier. Not only does this book provide a good introduction to the advantages of using art in a group therapy context, but it also offers in-depth discussion and examples of how to utilize the art to the best therapeutic advantage for different age groups and different patient populations. Further, I can report that student art therapists of my acquaintance have also received this highly rewarding and very readable book with considerable enthusiasm. I have no qualms about recommending it to anyone who wishes either to teach others or to study the group art therapy process. (Sometimes, what one wishes for really does come true!)

First time author, Suzanne Riley has written a thoroughly enjoyable romantic adventure set in the United States and Ireland. A clever mixture of romance and technology, Half Three In Galway takes the reader on Maggie's voyage of self-discovery and while filming a travelogue in Ireland, leads to a climatic meeting at a liitle book shop in Galway. Using locales, and loosely based on Ms. Riley's travel journal... from a 4 week trip to Ireland in 1995, she weaves an enjoyable travel tale of adventure, danger and a romantic encounter. Well worth a look...

This book is an excellent overview of the history of tile art. I a particularly interested in Islamic tile art, and the chapter in here is informative and contains excellent illustrations. In fact, the whole book is laden with beautiful illustrations.

Also delightful is a 17th century Dutch tile panel depicting the workings of a tile factory.

For anyone interested in this art form, I can recommend this as an excellent introduction.