When author Paul Collins picks up his young family and moves from San Francisco to Hay-on-Wye (a tiny Welsh village that boasts 1500 residents and 40 booksellers), he anticipates a quiet country life in which to complete his book (Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the World...
A disclaimer before I begin: I am reviewing an Advance Readers Copy of this book and I have not compared my copy to what was published.The Murder of the Century by Paul Collins is not the story of an uninteresting murder that happened in 1897. The book is about a murder that got splashed all over th...
I won an advance reader copy of this book from a Goodreads giveaway and Crown Publishing, and I want to thank them for the opportunity to read and review this book. Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars covers the recovery of a torso, arms, ...
I'm proably going to be pillored by some for giving this book two stars, but it is a two star book.Collins writes a history of Shakespeare's First Folio and how it gained popularlity as a collectible. If you like criticism of Shakespeare, this is a book you can skip. If you like history of Shakesp...
What a wonderful book. Collins writes about autism from both a journalistic and a personal standpoint. His stories about Morgan, his autistic son, are tender and loving, while his explorations into the science of autism are incisive and simply fascinating. There are revelations here for the layperso...
+ Informative, emotional, sophisticated, and ultimately optimistic- No substantive concernsThis is such a lovely book that I wish that you would read it so we can talk about it. Paul Collins and his wife learn that their son is autisti
An anthology of once-famous, once-infamous, or never famous men (with one exception) who were hot stuff at the time but now are obscure or entirely forgotten. Collins (the author of Not Even Wrong: A Father’s Journey into the Lost History of Autism which I reviewed here) has chosen an interesting as...
Highly recommended to anyone interested in autism. Mom NOS is also a fan.Reading the memoirs of parents who's children have autism, one of the things you notice is the broad spectrum of reactions. For a lot of parents, like Collins, there is an acceptance that "this" is how this child is. It may b...
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