This chapbook should be on every coffee table. Kathy is an outstanding modern poet with insite into our heart. I hope to see more of her work soon.

This book of poems is remarkable! The author is an inspiration to all her readers and truely knows how to touch the human heart. I give this book as gifts at every occasion, as I like to give the gift of uplifting a person's soul and brighten their day with a present. I reccommend this book to people of all walks of life for every occasion, it will bring a smile to your face. When will the author publish another?

Each poem struck me with several unique and powerful emotions. I was able to identify with many of the situations and felt very close to the author's work. I was easily able to lose myself in each poem and found myself living all the different situations. Definetly going to check out other works by this author and I definetly recommend this book to anyone who ejoys poetry that causes you to relate and use your imagination in your own personal life.

O'Kelly's greatest achievement is "The Weaver's Grave," and it is perhaps the greatest Irish short story ever written, with Joyce's "The Dead" a close second. The narration is beautiful while the dialogue is unique, real, and very funny. The Weaver's young widow must see that her aged husband's body is buried in a specific location in "the meadow of the dead" according to his wishes, wishes that were never specified to her. O'Kelly masterfully renders the subtle nature of her transformation from servant/wife to liberated woman as she sets about this task under the seemingly watchful and guiding light of Venus, the evening star. The conclusion, though somewhat surprising given the main plot, should not be totally unexpected, since it is the climax to another -- almost hidden -- plot that is ultimately more meaningful. This story is a slice of Irish life at the turn of the twentieth century but it is also universal in its artistry.

Wheel Boats On The Missouri: The Journals And Documents Of The Atkinson-O'fallon Expedition 1824-1826 is an archival reference showcasing a specialized slice of early American frontier history - as reflected by the original words of the wheel boat men who were directed by President James Monroe to negotiate peace treaties with Native American tribes along the Missouri River. The resulting use of 475 infantry soldiers, "gunboat diplomacy," and man-powered wheel boats across a 3,000 mile expedition is meticulously detailed among numerous primary references. Journals dealing with daily life, navigation difficulties, American Indian cultures and political negotiations provide an amazing glimpse into army life in an America of almost two centuries past. Wheel Boats On The Missouri is an impressive work of scholarship and a strongly recommended addition to academic and community library American history reading lists and reference collections.

The struggles and hardships of the revolutionary period and beyond are masterfully captured between robert jordans bookcovers.A story of a family that stems with importance but not to much to be mentioned in our histroy books, a stragegy thats as complicated to preform, but done so as not to quell the importance of the book.A book so flowing with intrigue and danger, the only dissapointment that it had was that it had to end, or until the sequel arrives which will be waited for inpatiently.

I've read the Fallon series and the WOT series and couldn't even imagine them being deplored by a movie. Never in my life have I seen a movie that compared to the book. You wanna see a movie, fine, but writing as complicated and intertwined as Jordan's couldn't be put into a movie of any length.

Robert Jordan is a thrill a minute writer with incredible wit, but no movie could ever capture what Jordan writes.

This offering from Robert Jordan, a tale of one Southern man's life during the American Revolution, has little of the action, adventure, spills, and thrills that we fans are accustomed to from this author. Of course, there are the battle scenes and even a great catfight between two women vying for the love of the same man, but absent are the mystical, magical confrontations and the unparalleled descriptions of mano-a-mano contests. This book focuses much more on relationships of an earthly kind. In fact, it walks the line between the fantasy and romance genres, so anyone looking for the typical Robert Jordan adventure in this book will be a little disappointed.

However, let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater. Robert Jordan does an inspiring job of portraying the emotional struggle of a man finding his way in the world and the way of his heart. Instead of dealing with large countries, monumental wars, and the most powerful leaders alive, Michael Fallon conducts shrewd business and encounters love and war at the personal level. In writing this tale, Robert Jordan tells an entertaining, emotionally gripping story on a stage smaller than his usual grand amphitheatre.

The Fallon Blood is an excellent work of historical fiction, and it ought to be read by all who have a love for adventure and who have even just a mild curiousity about the American Revolution. Jordan commands both a top notch understanding the war and late 18th century American lifestyle.

Jordan writes about the period via a story about fictional characters who occasionally run into famous historical figures. Generals Lafayette and Nathaniel Greene, for example, make appearances in the novel. Younger writers, such as Jason Manning, have written with this approach, but Jordan is masterful with this book.

Despite his excellence, Jordan is not without his weaknesses. Even with all of the historical expertise he displays in the pages of the Fallon Blood, Jordan will always be a "Conan the Barbarian" writer at heart. The hero, Fallon, is handsome and macho. Sex is offered to him frequently and easily. He possesses tremendous skill and physical strength as a soldier. The women are beautiful and extremely sexually active. The villains are evil and twisted. Hence, the story is a bit unrealistic at times, but what a fun way to learn a greal deal of historically accurate information about early America!

Readers from South Carolina will loves this book more than any other fans of Jordan's work. Jordan possesses an undeniable arrogance and pride about the role of South Carolina in the American Revolution, and the Fallon Blood is his vehicle for sharing those feelings and beliefs with the rest of the world. Regardless of whether or not you will agree with Jordan's historical evaluation of his home state, this book is a sexy and exiting look at the birth of our nation. Give it a read!

After reading the Wheel of Time Series, I started to think that Robert Jordan was one of my favorite authors, but I thought I should take a look at some of his other works. So far Fallon Blood is the only other book I got to, but after I read it I have decided that Robert Jordan is my favorite author...or whatever his real name is (it's not Robert Jordan). I didn't finish the book, but that was because I moved and had to return it to the place I was borrowing from. Otherwise I wouldn't have put it down. His villians are truly evil and the hero very impressive. The book is more about family fued than war, but for the war fanatics, there's definately plenty of it. As much as I know of history, it's accurate but there are still plenty of fine details that only a scholar would know presented in this book. And for those of you who like WoT, there are some similarities in his writing. The woman are all still very strong characters, and the hotels are an awful lot like the ones in the fantasy series, plus there is a lot to do with travel. I would recomend this book to anyone. (As long as they are teen and older).

Robert Jordan has a fantastic grasp of American history, and this book displays that knowledge in an entertaining way. Readers will learn a great deal about the federalist period of American history whether they like the book or not. Nevertheless, Jordan looses control of the storyline in this sequal to the Fallon Blood. the incest issue was ridiculous, and it had no business being in the book, and main fictional character's relationship to historical people and events were way to contrived for belief. The worst example was Robert Fallon's visit to Washington City. In a single day, he confronts Madison, Monroe, Burr, Hamilton, Jefferson, and Dolly Madison! It was fun to read, but super hard to believe. The main Fallon character of the first novel in the series met up with some famous historical figures, but they were few and far between. The second book has them growing on trees.

The Fallon characters were also a little too "Conan-like" as in the first Fallon book. The women are stunning and starving for sex, the Fallon men are macho and superb in fighting, the villains are decadent and evil.

My guess is that Jordan was so pleased by the acceptance of his first book that he simply became careless in writing the second book. All that being said, The Fallon Pride is entertaining to read and you will learn many new historical facts about early America.

Thoroughly enjoyable historical fiction from the viewpoint of the South. I enjoyed every minute of this series. Read (1) "Fallon Blood," (2)"Fallon Pride" then (3) "Fallon Legacy." I have a new understanding of, and interest in, the birth of our nation. I'm hoping for yet another sequel. I love Robert Jordan, whatever name he uses.

I found the book to be thouroghly involving.