Unbelievably visceral, engaging book from a storyteller, adventurer and truly high spirit as he drifts (and rumbles) down the Colorado River, from its source to the sea. Thanks, Dave, for the recommendation!

This book was a little too ‘cute’ and rudimentary for what I’d expected. Glickman makes a handful of good points, but surrounds them with ridiculous, contrived examples and an “I love me!” undercurrent that gets fairly sickening after awhile. What can be gleaned from this book I can sum up as follows:

Glickman shows us that positive thinking usually amounts to little more than ‘wishful thinking’, and begets no action beyond sitting, crossing fingers and believing. It’s passive, and in order to see changes we need a way of thinking that probes, asks questions, acknowledges the negative, focuses on the positive and then finds the best path toward the goal, and moves on it. This principle, Glickman contends, is at the heart of ‘optimal thinking’.

Wonderful guide for the consulting layperson, Elaine goes to great lengths to outline the profession (and the various transitions therein) clearly and completely.

Beautiful! From Pico Iyer’s igniting forward throughout the book’s many stories, this is an anthology of travel, experience, character, culture and timelessness.

Never calculated, Lopez writes with very basic abandon, unconcerned with convention and form in his ‘stream-of-consciousness’ flow. And it works for him, captivating us by speaking directly to us as readers, and pulling us in to wild, weird (and yet surprisingly natural) universe he paints. His writing is at once spare and rich, striking simple.. and evocative.

Charming and culturally significant, Mourning Dove paints coyote as amusing, frustrating, cunning and the ridiculed among the animal kingdom. Great imagery and prose.

These two ladies had a lot of fun writing this book, and it shows. Fun, funky and informative—not your typical writer’s guide!

Not such a warm fuzzy story, Ryden’s accounts are based in fact and observation, good and bad, and she makes you as delighted as she does disgusted by telling as much of the whole story as is possible from her work. Uncomfortable, helpless moments aren’t always met with hope, and the hopeful, beautiful moments – while plentiful – serve only to make the plight of the coyote more tragic. But with discomfort, Ryden hopes, comes action. And she’s not shy about making you hurt some to get it.

The perfect elixir for battened-down-in-winter syndrome, Sand in my Bra is a first-class distraction, whisking readers off to all corners of the globe with traveling women who find themselves in situations ranging from humiliating to hilarious.