The Greenfielder
Bits and pieces about living in Greenfield, Massachusetts.

The Last Dalai Lama
The 14th Dalai Lama suggested he might not be reborn.

Recent Posts

• Beyond the Bookstore: Holding Book Events in Non-Traditional Venues
  Reprinted from "The Book Marketing Expert newsletter," a free ezine offering book promotion and publicity tips and techniques. http://www.amarketingexpert.com If you're tired of hearing "no" every time you try and secure a book signing, take heart. Signings have become a lot more challenging since more books than ever are being published [More...]

• The Poet And The Short Story Writer
  Joy J. Kaimaparamban is the author of The Ayurvedic Healer, a novel published by Copperhill Media. For further information log on to his blog at http://www.kaimaparamban.com. When I was studying in high school classes I started writing poems.  As I felt no satisfaction in my poems, I wanted to correct them with the help [More...]

• The World Of Literature And Art
  Joy J. Kaimaparamban is the author of The Ayurvedic Healer, a novel published by Copperhill Media. For further information log on to his blog at http://www.kaimaparamban.com. The world of literature is a wonderful one.  If you refer its history you can convince the fact. From my childhood I read fiction and non-fiction aw well.  [More...]

• Job Interview With The Devil – What Would You Do?
  On my way home yesterday, I listened to the local rock station in my car, and they were playing the old Stones' hit Interview With The Devil. Nice lyrics, I thought, and made a mental note to write another post in my It's All About Music column. Well, in the [More...]

• Charlie Brooker: Rightwingers Are Brilliant At Creating Snappy-But-Misleading Nicknames
  Charlie Brooker on guardian.co.uk - August 30, 2010 I bring all this up because I've been thinking some more about the "Ground Zero mosque" debate. Specifically, I've been thinking about the horrible brilliance of the opponents' endlessly parroted, emotionally charged phrase "Ground Zero mosque", used to describe something which – at the [More...]

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It’s All About Music

• Roadsongs [Live] by Derek Trucks Band
  Product Description Roadsongs is a document of the Derek Trucks Band at its collective musical peak, recorded live in Chicago during their 2009 Already Free Tour. Featuring extended live versions from their Grammy Award-winning album Already Free along with classic Derek Trucks Band originals, Roadsongs captures the band reaching new heights [More...]

• Couldn’t Stand the Weather (Legacy Edition) by Double Trouble
  Product Description Digitally remastered and expanded two CD Legacy Edition of the Blues guitarist's 1984 album. This edition contains 16 previously unreleased tracks, studio outtakes and the live recording of Vaughan & Double Trouble's 1984 performance at the Spectrum in Montreal. A 24 colour page booklet completes the package with liner [More...]

• THE E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies) by Black Eyed Peas
  Product Description The new album by The Black Eyed Peas is off to a blazing start! The first single from The E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies), BOOM BOOM POW was also the Peas' very first #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart! With The E.N.D., The Peas are poised to continue with the [More...]

• Crazy Love by Michael Buble
  Product Description 'Crazy Love', Michael Bublé's first CD in two and a half years, features two original songs along with his always original take on 11 standards from various eras. The multi-Grammy winning artist hunkered down in recording studios in LA, Brooklyn, New York and his hometown of Vancouver for the [More...]

• Something For The Rest Of Us by Goo Goo Dolls
  Written and recorded over the past couple of years, 'Something For The Rest Of Us' delivers another dose of great Goo songs such as 'Sweetest Lie,' 'One Night,' and 'Soldier.' With his songwriting, John Rzeznik confronts some of the issues that have become part of many people's everyday lives: 'I wanted [More...]

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Book Reviews

• Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy
  There is one line in Maile Meloy's newest story collection that completely slayed me. (It's on page 97.) And in fact, there are many moments before and after that line that left me awestruck as I wondered how she was able to capture a feeling--typically one that's very familiar, like [More...]

• Motherless Brooklyn by Janathan Lethem
  Pop quiz. Please complete the following sentence: "There are days when I get up in the morning and stagger into the bathroom and begin running water and then I look up and I don't even recognize my own _." If you answered face, then your name is obviously not Jonathan Lethem. [More...]

• Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories by Lorraine M. Lopez
  Product Description Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. "In a voice that is all at once hilarious and mischievous, searing and seething and sardonic, Lorraine Lopez presents, in her most necessary book to date, a celebration of the liberating power of bad behavior," writes Heather Sellers about HOMICIDE SURVIVORS PICNIC AND OTHER STORIES. Most [More...]

• Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
  "A wonderful book." --Joy Behar, The View “This is the shocking, profoundly moving and morally challenging story...  It will haunt you, it will help to complete you… nothing short of miraculous.”  -Augusten Burroughs “Just when you thought you might have read about every horror of the Holocaust, a book will come along and shine [More...]

• Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen
  Jacob Jankowski says: "I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other." At the beginning of Water for Elephants, he is living out his days in a nursing home, hating every second of it. His life wasn't always like this, however, because Jacob ran away and joined the circus when he [More...]

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Amazon Kindle

• Kindle Edition – Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough by Lori Gottlieb
  Product Description Gottlieb, 37, made the decision to become a single parent after years of searching for Mr. Right. Four years later, when she still hadn’t found him, she decided to take a good look at her dating habits—and the dating habits of women around her—to see if the problem is [More...]

• Kindle Edition – Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert
  Review Sure it garnered starred reviews, but who knew that Gilbert’s memoir about her quest for psychic healing, Eat, Pray, Love (2006), would become what she describes as a “megajumbo international best-seller”? Or that she would be in demand as a relationship guru? Or that her relationship with Felipe, the Brazilian [More...]

• Kindle Edition – Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
  I find it so surprising--reading the angry, negative reviews--that the people who hated the book hated it for exactly the reasons why some steer clear away from the the spiritual-journey-memoir genre. Yes, the author is self-absorbed, yes, she seems to think of only trite stuff, yes, she seems self-indulgent with [More...]

• Kindle 3 – Amazon’s Response To The iPad
  New York Times - August 25, 2010 Amazon makes the popular Kindle e-book reader. For a while, it was pretty much the only game in e-book town. But the iPad has a touch screen, color, prettier software, audio and video playback, 100,000 apps — and at the time, it didn’t cost much [More...]

• The Kindle – Looks Aren’t Everything
  It's not as attractive as the iPad, but Amazon's formerly derided e-reader is cheap and, most important, efficient guardian.co.uk - August 29, 2010 The newest version of the Kindle e-reader is out. And guess what? "Due to strong customer demand," says the Amazon website, "Kindle is temporarily sold out. Order now to [More...]

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