The little book is adorable, and there's an average of one recipe per 2 pages. The author gives good descriptions of the recipes. There are no pictures, though, so I give it a 4-star. I've tried a few of the recipes, which turned out fine.

There are plenty of cookie books... and this one is worth having. Simply put: the recipies are of high quality and provide consistently good results. From straightforward drop cookies to bars to shaped and rolled. Rich, chocolaty cookies to light, meltaway drops made with confectioners sugar. Something for every taste and occasion.

This cookbook is filled with lots of easy tempting recipes for cookies with names such as Best-ever Chocolate Meltaways, Toffee Swirls, Sweet Cinnamon Crisps, and Chocolate-Rasberry Thumbprints. Marilyn Moore leads the cookie-enthusiast step by step to create great all-time favorites such as Chocolate Chip Cookies and Lunchbox Oatmeal Raison and also provides lots of new recipes for a spontaneous sweet adventure. You can also make refrigerator cookies (which you can slice and bake fresh whenever you feel like it), bar cookies, shaped cookies, and cut-out cookies. This cookbook never gets put away!

This isn't really a songbook since there are no musical notations. What it is is a collection of song lyrics from Moore's music (he actually heads an obscure band in England I've never had the fortune or misfortune to hear) accompanied by illustrations that I believe are all collected from issues of the now defunct Negative Burn anthology series. As poetry, its fine (not great) and covers all of Moore's usual territory (e.g. one or two about Victorian serial killers).

The accompanying illustrations range widely in quality. Some artists (e.g. Art Adams) are fine drawing comics, but aren't the greatest as black and white text illustrators. Others are just plain mediocre. One of the most interesting contributions is by Neil Gaiman (didn't know he could draw that well until I saw this book) that is, not surprisingly, abstract.

Basically, if you are not familiar with any of the above names, this is not likely for you. But if you are a fan, this is an interesting little collectible curiosity. Not great, but obscure and fun to shove in the face of other Alan Moore collectors in order to watch them turn green with envy.

When you're Alan Moore, a comic writer of such talent and reknown that you can (or could) rub elbows with Eisner or Kirby or Schwartz, you're likely to get tired of the same old thing in your funny books.

Moore uses the comic format to lend a graphic element to the chilling verses contained in these pages. From happier, more upbeat lyrics, to the darker and more disturbing, the combination of perfectly chosen graphics and songs solicited from all over the landscape makes this something no Moore fan; and, for that matter, no fan of dark literature, should be without.

RELIABLE INFORMATION FROM A VERY RELIABLE SOURCE. JIN MOORE PROVIDES THE READER WITH PRICELESS INSIGHT ON HOW TO ENTER THIS KIND OF VENTURE

What a wonderful book. Such timely and invaluable information. If you are looking for Assisted Living 2000, you need to look at Moore's new updated and expanded version, Assisted Living Strategies for Changing Markets [....]

In his Preface to this collection of forty essays and poems, Zaleski
writes, "we see that certain themes remain constant" in the
Best Spritual Writing series, "as if hard-wired into the soul:
the struggle with evil; the quest for God; nature as the ophany; the
sense that we inhabit two worlds, one divine, the other human--all
too human" (p. xvi). Although I found his five-star, 1999
collection more compelling overall, the contributions here both stir
the soul and move the mind. Or, in the words of Thomas Moore's
Introduction, these writings "should help us get through life
rather than above or around it, . . . should turn us inside out,
peeling back our skin of literalism, and remind us to hear the divine
and angelic music that sounds through in any good piece of
writing" (p. xviii).

This collection takes us on spiritual
journeys both literally and figuratively. With her "rucksack on
a cold March morning," Gretel Ehrlich follows the 800-year-old
footsteps of St. Francis, "wanderer, seeker, ultimately
saint" (p. 101). On her pilgrimage, she discovers "walking
and giving, walking and singing, walking and praying: the path was a
proving ground for sainthood, and walking was ambulation for heart
and mind" (p. 107). We also travel with Natalie Goldberg to
Kitada, Japan, where she visits the grave of her Zen teacher,
Katagiri Roshiin a downpour. She writes, "I prostrate three
times on the wet earth and I kneel in front of his stone. Pushing
the dripping hair from my face, the rain running down my cheeks, I
speak to my teacher: 'I am here. It took me a while, but I made
it'" (p.139).

Through the death of his wife, Christopher
Bamford discovers the meaning of life, that "each person's life
is a spiritual journey" (p. 8), and that "time, each
moment" is" a gift, a grace" (p. 4). Anita Mathias
learns that "domesticity, marriage, and motherhood are smiths in
which the soul can be forged as painfully, as beautifully, as amid
the splendid virginal solitudes of the convent" (p. 218). In
the most humourous essay in the book, John Price describes his
near-death experience with a pheasant while driving through Iowa.
"It made me wake up, become more observant of what's lurking in
the margins," he writes. "What's lurking there, despite
the rumors, is the possibility of surprise, of accident, of death.
And if it's possible in this over determined landscape for a pheasant
to kill a man, then why not, too, the possibility of restoration,
renewal, and, at last, hope?" (p. 264).

I was pleased to find
several of my favorite writers here, and discovered a few new writers
I am eager to read beyond this anthology. While Wendell Berry
questions "the hopeless paradox of making peace by making
war"(p. 37), Annie Dillard finds "sparks of holiness"
in the depths of "our bleak world" (p. 86). In her essay
(excerpted from her excellent book, FOR THE TIME BEING), she
observes, God "does not give as the world gives; he leads
invisibly over many years, or he wallops for 30 seconds at a time.
He may touch a mind, too, making a loud sound, or a mind may feel the
rim of his mind as he nears" (pp. 96-7). Linda Hogan writes
that the cure for "soul sickness" is "not in books.
It is written in the bark of a tree, in the moonlit silence of night,
in the bank of a river and the water's motion" (p. 153). Bill
McKibben compares the secret of Gandhi's life, "renounce and
enjoy" (p. 225), to the spread of the voluntary simplicity
movement. "Here is the secret reason," he writes,
"that some people in the rich world have begun to get rid of
some of their stuff, move to smaller houses, eat lower on the food
chain, ride bikes, reduce their expenses and scale back their
careers: if you can simplify your life, and it requires a certain
minimal affluence to do so, then you can have more fun than your
neighbors" (p. 232).

I have rated this collection with four
stars only when measured against Zaleski's five-star BEST SPIRITUAL
WRITING, 1999. However, it is likely other readers will give this
book their five-star approval. It may interest some readers that
Zaleski also includes a list of the 100 best spiritual books of the
century in this volume.

G. Merritt

This is a beautifully crafted collection of spiritual writing, comparable to looking at a finely woven piece of sacred tapestry. Writers Kimberly Snow, "Rearranging the Clouds", John Updike, "Religious Consolation", James Van Tholen, "Surprised by Death", Jacques Lusseyran, "What One Sees Without Eyes", Natalie Goldberg, "The Rain and the Temple", and Ann Hood, "In Search of Miracles", are among those selected by Philip Zaleski and a panel of distinguished writers and thinkers to perpetuate this ongoing series of books honoring great spiritual writers. The aim of the 2000 series was to capture the spiritual pulse of this century, not of the earlier ones. More than two hundred books were nominated by the panel. This collection represents a wide spectrum of religious traditions. I liked that it embraced the everyday aspects of spirituality in our lives. Highly recommended reading! Hopefully, the 2001 series will include James Davis, "Rosetta Stone of God", Philip Morimitsu, "The Seeker", or Harold Klemp, "Child In The Wilderness".These three authors offer similar stunning insights and soul searing reminders of our ability to connect with Divine Spirit daily.

This may be the funniest graphic novel that I've read in a LONG time! One of my friends brought it home from a honeymoon trip and it's been making the rounds ever since. Abbey is the coolest vampire chick I've seen in ages. The scene with her & Paris and the phone book made us all howl for hours. Buy this book- you won't regret it!

I had heard rumblings here and there about Boneyard, and the concept of the book intrigued me to the point that I decided to try this trade paperback. In brief, Boneyard tells the story of a young man who inherits some land from his recently deceased grandfather. Rather than something immediately valuable, it turns out that the main character, Michael Paris, inherits a graveyard. To make matters worse, this graveyard is inhabited by a quirky and thoroughly charming group of "evil" beings -- and the locals are tired of sharing their town with these creatures. The conflict that ensues is enjoyable, though the real charm of Boneyard comes from the exploration and interaction of the great characters. This book collects the first four-issue story arc from the bi-monthly comic, and is thus a complete, stand-alone work in its own right.

Boneyard's creator, Richard Moore, is an outstanding artist who obviously loves what he does. The story and characters alone are interesting enough to justify the purchase, but Mr. Moore is such a talented artist that I found myself sometimes staring at a character's facial expressions as if the dialog were being spoken rather than read. Basically, the art really comes alive, and there are few comic artists who can pull it off at this level. Boneyard is something special.

Marianne Moore's poetry is perceptive and unassuming. She often writes with a dry sense of humor. Her interest in sports, especially baseball, is also expressed in her poetry. She enjoys odd behavior in animals and writes about them just as they are. "An Octopus" is one of her longer poems and needs several readings to be appreciated. Moore creates poems that are filled with intuitive insight and beauty.

I believe that it was Robert Frost who commented with regards to modern poetry, that it was like playing tennis without a net. Marianne Moore created her own net - her poetry is built upon strict syllabic counts she imposed upon herself. The result is finely crafted poetry that is never self-indulgent.

I have found her syllabic count to be a good way to introduce structure into student's poetry. I have found it to be a good writing exercise. And in using the structure in these ways, I have become ever more impressed with the quality of work she achieved. But more than the technical quality, I enjoy the humor and just plain fun of her animal poems.

I thoroughly enjoyed the pitch-black humor of this book, which flips a verbal bird at everything from mental healthcare professionals to white trash to the arrogant wealthy. At times, the snarky attitude verges on overwhelming, but read in several moderately sized portions rather than wolfed down in one sitting, The Concrete Sky is as pitilessly/pleasurably sharp-tongued as Robert Schimmel's stand-up routines or Gore Vidal on one of his more misanthropic days. The noir-tinted plot keeps fingers turning pages fast, but it's Moore's singularly pissy narrative voice that leaves the deeper papercuts...on your brain.

The author is the child Oscar Wilde and Dorothy Parker never had together. I haven't read anything this witty in years. THE CONCRETE SKY made me laugh, it made me mad, it made me think, it got under my skin. I was rooting for Chad and Jonathan and I wanted to slap them both too. I couldn't put this one down. It made me late for work because I stayed up late reading. This is a debut novel? What's he going to write next?

This book was fantastic I just got down reading it in class.Our whole freashman class had to read at first "I thought just another to read" but I found out it is not just a book, I mean you got into it after but what amazed me so much is that the characters are so real. I hope that before you move out or move into Maine you will read this book.

A friend recommended Ruth Moore to me and so far I have not been disappointed. The Weir is surprising in that the story line takes an unexpected twist which caught me off guard and which kept me thinking for long after. This is not a softened version of quaint Maine coastal life, but a book filled with well drawn characters who are very real.

Ruth Moore communicates the quintessence of everyday life in coastal Maine. Her characters are salt-of-the-earth folk whose concerns are both particular to the coastal region in which they live and universally shared among families and neighbors everywhere. The Weir gives readers a lighthearted glimpse of traditional New England values and coastal village life by following the daily routine and challenges of a family whose sustenance depends primarily on the tending of a weir and whose strength is derived from the relationships between kin and neighbors. Should you vacation in coastal Maine and desire the full romantic effect of the region, read The Weir or any of Ruth Moore's books (Candlemas Bay and The Spoonhandle, to name a couple).

I am a sixteen year old junior at Abraxas high school and I needed to review a book such as this for my world history class. Enjoying this book was no problem. My father, Col. Allan R. Bacon Jr, read it and his opinion of books counts more to me than my own. Molly Moore acepted and oportunity, and this book was her product. A Woman at War : Storming Kuwait With the U.S. Marines, a great read.

Not a bad account of the ground war - main reason I comment here is because I am the "young captain" and "young intelligence officer" and participated in the events as described on pages 233-235, 239-241, and 245-248. Stumbled across this book and was pleasantly surprised that a "ground level" view of the ground campaign was presented. Dave Dilegge

Ms. Moore has provided a gripping account of her experiences as a reporter covering America's permier fighting force, the U.S. Marine Corps, during Desert Shield/Storm. She is the first woman reporter to have operated in such a capacity. Her accounts of wartime preparations and operations is insightful. Of particular significance is her chronological reporting of the command and staff planning actions by General Boomer and his staff. The personal narratives provided by the combat troops is fast-paced and gives great insight into the human side of the modern battlefield.

I ordered this comic book under the impression that it was penned by Alan Moore and Garth Ennis, two of my favorite comic book authors. In actuality, it's not written by these two men, nor is it even actually a comic book, but "The World's Longest Comic Strip" set to book form.

How this unique story came to be written is, in 1991, the London Cartoon Centre, a school for comics and cartooning, found itself in need of funding and publicity. And so 125 cartoonists were gathered at the Guinness World of Records in London's Trocadero shopping mall to draw the 250 paneled comic strip The Worm - the longest strip ever to be completed in one setting. The basic script was penned by Alan Moore and the illustrators were a venerable who's who of British cartoonists, including a single panel drawn by Garth Ennis. The story itself chronicles a cartoonist's trek to meet a deadline, and in doing so, chronicles the significance that cartoonists have made in time throughout history, eventually ending at a time when comic book authors are reverenced and revered.

This tome reads like no other comic book, as every other panel is drawn by a different illustrator, often with radically different styles. This can sometimes make for a difficult to follow story line, and indeed, is best read in conjunction with the reprinted script by Alan Moore presented in the back. But the story, an odd mix of humor, speculation, and cynicism, is definitely worth reading, not only for the tale it has to tell, but for the constantly shifting artwork that it tells it with.

If the names of the authors don't mean anything to you i would be surprised you found it to begin with. This is not perhaps the best comic book i have ever read, but it keeps a nice pace and its intriguing on its approach. Buy it and see for yourself why this guys are two fo the best on the comic world.

WOW! I mean, the Gods of the fanboy world shined down on this book. Moore, Ennis! The two best modern comic writers out there in one volume. It is like Larry Bris and Mihael Jordan on the same team. The best from 2 generations creating great are together. The creators of Watchmen and Preacher together is a dream come true. Sick, adult fun for the whole family. If you like ABC books or Preacher, get this.