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Review: If there were McBooks, this would be one
A review by Bob Tedder • Sometimes I consider books as foods to be consumed and define my dining in terms of the institution which prepared the meal. This being the case, then Brad Meltzer’s “The Fifth Assassin” is to be found on the BOGO drive-thru menu at your local...
MONTGOMERY COUNTY SHERIFF’S REPORT, JULY 23
Review: Cormac McCarthy describes the indescribable
A review by Bob Tedder • To truly appreciate Cormac McCarthy one should eschew the much-ballyhooed cinematic adaptations of his “No Country for Old Men” and “The Road” and turn to the written word. Consider the sheer craftsmanship of the following sentence: “Wasps...
Montgomery County Sheriff’s Report, July 16
Test your knowledge of Mt. Gilead
By Mark Scott, executive director of Market MontGOmery Chamber & Tourism • How much do you know about the Mt. Gilead area? Let’s find out. (The answers are at the bottom.) What building in Mt. Gilead was originally built by L.P. Byrd as Moore's Livery? What Mt....
Do Something for the First Time
By Marla Coulthard • I owe Chase, my 19-year-old grandson, a debt of gratitude for reintroducing me to Darius Rucker. I knew the singer during his Hootie and the Blowfish days. Hootie, by the way, is having a reunion tour this summer. And another BTW: Hootie filmed a...
Montgomery County Sheriff’s Report, July 9
A book to be sipped, not read
A review by Bob Tedder • Do not read this book! Furthermore, do not quaff the Cheval Blanc 1947! However, do savor them, sip them slowly, let them infuse your senses and pique your imagination, for both are things grown better with age. In the case of “The Rediscovery...
Help Yourself
By Mark Scott, executive director of Market MontGOmery Chamber & Tourism • Remember the story about the man warned to evacuate his home because of an impending flood? He had faith he would be taken care of. The storm pounded the town and in the last moments anyone...
‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ lives up to its lofty social media billing
A review by Bob Tedder • In a 1975 Ms. magazine article noted author Alice Walker bluntly and without remorse told a “profoundly useful lie.” In searching for the grave of a virtually forgotten fellow author, Walker assumed the role of the dead women’s niece. Through...
Montgomery County Sheriff’s Report, July 2
A young adult novel with built-in language arts lessons
A review by Bob Tedder Words such as limerence, malapropism, pugilism, cachinnate, callipygian, codswallop, onomatophobia and logorrhea are mostly found in ancient and arcane tomes of the sort worshiped by lonely academicians. And yet Kwame Alexander manages to...