From a purely mechanical standpoint, though, how they enliven and differentiate scads of important moments from a time that seems inescapably ethereal for most readers is at best a mixed bag. ... He was a virulent racist, a violent man who beat fans in the stands, an almost universally loathed and arrogant bastard, a paranoid who fired off guns in hotel parking lots, and a man who slid into people with the full knowledge that he could actually potentially kill a person ...
An eccentric professor reads and reviews an eclectic mix of books ... The Indie Lit Awards are blogger-nominated and blogger-judged awards given out to the best books published in a given year. The nominations are over and some very smart and wonderful people (the judges on this page) have come up with the shortlists: 2010 Shortlist for GLBTQ. Annabel by Kathleen Winter; Jumpstart the World by Catherine Ryan Hyde; Krakow Melt by Daniel Allen Cox; Will Grayson, ...
There is also a smaller-berried, early ripening, lower yield variety called Frhburgunder (Pinot noir prcoce, lit. ?Early Burgundian?) which is grown in Rheinhessen and Ahr area and can produce very good wines. .... In recent times, wineries in New York State have come to be known for their Pinot noir, in particular the Niagara Escarpment AVA and Warm Lake Estate. The latter, in Lockport, New York, is recognized in the The Oxford Companion to Wine and has been awarded the ...