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| Volume 1, No. 1 | January, 2006 | |||
| The Ossining Review of Books is an online public forum to discuss what you've been reading. Its editor is Bob Minzesheimer, vice president of the library's Board of Trustees and a book reviewer for USA Today and WFUV. We welcome comments and reading recommendations. Please send to bob@ossininglibrary.org. | ||||
Question of the month: What is your favorite book about Westchester?Do you have a favorite book (fiction or non-fiction) set in or about Westchester? What's the great suburban novel? What's the best account of Westchester, past or present? Share your review with other readers of the Ossining Review of Books by e-mailing us at bob@ossininglibrary.org. |
My five favorite books set in and around WestchesterBen Cheever, who grew up in Ossining and lives in Pleasantville, is a novelist, essayist and editor of The Letters of John Cheever, published after his father's death in 1982. My five favorite books published in 2005Minzesheimer, vice president of the library's board of trustee, is a book critic for USA Today and WFUV-FM. |
Review of the Month: Teacher Man by Frank McCourtGreat Books About Sing SingDavid Goewey, an Ossining native, is the author of Crash Out: The True Tale of a Hell's Kitchen Kid & The Bloodiest Escape in Sing Sing History (Crown, 2005) and will speak at the Library on Feb. 15 
Five of My Favorite Books of Feminist Speculative FictionIrene Herz, the Library's website developer and sometime PC tutor, is the author of the children's book Hey, Don't Do That Prentice Hall, 1978, and of the Website Setting Up My Own Website, a guide to do-it-yourself website creation. The site was begun as an adjunct to a talk given at OPL in 2004. Index of Book Reviews |
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