My Kind of Place.MY KIND OF PLACE. Susan Orlean Susan Orlean (born October 31 1955) is an American journalist whose feature writing drolly but affectionately considers "softer" subjects than some of those covered by her colleagues. . 2004. Read by Karen White. 9 cds. 10 hrs. Books on Tape. 1-4159-1308-0. $81.00. Vinyl; content notes. A Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief, has written a provocative series of short travel stories on places that are not only unusual but also downright ordinary. With wit, humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was and language rich in metaphors she describes a supermarket scene in excruciating detail, a Cuban baseball game Noun 1. baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League for kids, Congo sound in Paris, climbing Mount Fuji in the rain and fog, Kosang Road in Bangkok, the Skymalling catalogue, a trailer park in Portland, OR, the marketing of Thomas Kinkade's art, Iceland, the World Taxidermy taxidermy (tăk`sĭdûr'mē), process of skinning, preserving, and mounting vertebrate animals so that they still appear lifelike. Championships, beauty pageants for little girls, and on and on. Each subject has been painstakingly researched so the stories are meaty and full of facts. White's reading, with a hard voice and a fast delivery, adds an edge to the delivery. The pace is exhausting but the subject matter is so interesting that the listener forgets the reader and listens to the content. Orlean's cynical tone makes this most appropriate for older teens and adults, Rozelle Overmire, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , CA A--Recommended for advance students and adults. This code will help librarians and teacher working in high schools where there are honors and advanced placement students. This also will help extend KLIATT's usefulness in public libraries. |
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