Book Review - period ended 11.1.2006

Book Review/War/Religious Faith/Brock, Lynmar/Daily Debriefing/The Dartmouth/Hanover/NH/USA/25-Oct-06//... LLC, Brock's publisher, the novel centers around the protagonist, Thomas Pratt, in the 1700s as he attempts to reconcile his pacifist Quaker upbringing with ...

Book Review/War/Conscience/Brock, Lynmar/New Historical Novel Teaches Young Adult Readers About the .../Emediawire/Seattle/WA/USA/22-Oct-06//Inspired by author Lynmar Brock’s Quaker ancestry and naval service, "Must Thee Fight" introduces readers to internal conflict in wartime. ...

Book Review/War/Selflessness/Family tale is worth savoring/The Wichita Eagle/Witchita/KS/USA/21-Oct-06//... But their Quaker mother, ridiculed as "the saint" by their aunt for her selfless and unsubtle devotion to her family. But their mother, whose bitter disagreement with their hawk uncle over the Vietnam War doesn't extend to the cousin who enlists to go fight it.. ...

Book Review/Religious Diversity//Beliefwatch: The Atheist/Newsweek /New York/NY/USA/21-Oct-06//... But as infidels go, Harris is an astonishingly successful one. The son of a Jewish mother and a Quaker father, he has written one of two books currently on The New York Times best-seller list that debunk belief in God, any belief in God, as irrational at best and destructive to human society at worst. This week "Letter to a Christian Nation" sits at 6 on the hard-cover nonfiction list, up from 11 from last week; the other, Richard Dawkins's "The God Delusion," is number 8, up from 12. In spite of his appearance, Harris is very angry, and "Letter" is a readable, exhortatory screed, a response to all the Scripture-quoting e-mail he received from Christians who read his first book. Religion, he writes in "Letter," is "obscene"—not just repellent, but "utterly repellent." ...

Book Review/Quaker Schools/Racism//BLACK GIRL/ WHITE GIRL/Christian Science Monito/Boston/MA/USA/23-Oct-06//... child of privilege. She's a scion of the wealthy Quaker family who founded the college she attended in the mid-1970s. For 15 years ...

Book Review/Quaker History/War//Nine finalists' works are well worth reading/Richmond Times Dispatch/Richmond/VA/USA/21-Oct-06//... Geraldine Brooks' "March: A Novel"

Brooks, an Australia native who now lives in Waterford, says she found the inspiration for "March" there, when a Union soldier's belt buckle was unearthed in her backyard.

That started her thinking about the Quaker family she knew lived in her house in the 1860s. That took her to the subject of her novel, Mr. March, the father in Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women," who was absent because he was serving as a Union chaplain.

Her novel won this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction. ...

Book Review/Quaker History/Native Americans/Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Alan Taylor Lectures at Hamilton/Hamilton College News/Albany/NY/USA/26-Oct-06//... the Quakers, Kirkland respected their influence in terms of agriculture and temperament of the Oneida and cooperated with the visiting Quaker preachers. ...

Book Review/Quaker History/American Revolution/Shaking and stirring -- these books still matter/Globe and Mail/Toronto/Ontario/Canada/28-Oct-06//... It's time for a counterattack, and a good place to start is with Thomas Paine. Paine was a true figure of the Enlightenment, one of those remarkable self-educated tradesmen-intellectuals thrown up by the Protestant tradition, and by the philosophic doctrines and the economic expansion of the mid-18th century. Paine's father was a Quaker and his mother was an Anglican, and his ideas on individual liberty and freedom have radical religious roots -- in the Protestant Reformation. ...