Review by Tyler R. Tichelaar I’ve always said that if I didn’t live in Marquette, I would want to live on Mackinac Island. Despite numerous trips to this beautiful isle, I’ve never stayed a night on the island, much less lived there year-round, so I’ve always been curious what it…
Review by Sharon Brunner Jon C. Stott embraces the advent of the seasons, the mysterious and magical allure of nature and many treasured memories in his book “Wild Blueberry Summer: More Upper Michigan Moments and Memories.” Some of the main characters in his book were woodland creatures, waterfowl, old friends…
Review by Mack Hassler “…the novel is reflecting upon its own nature” Jean-Paul Sartre, Search for a Method, 1963 Gentle Spirits, this first book-length offering by Conlan, a retired shipmaster and poet, is not exactly an “Anti-Novel” in the tradition that Sartre describes above. It does not use the…
Review by Mack Hassler Yooper Ale Trails: Craft Breweries and Brewpubs of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a handsome publication by Classen and Stott from the publisher that is the imprint for so much directed at the UPPAA is a book filled with information, wonderful photos, and even a few “bookish” puzzles…
Review by Victor R. Volkman It’s almost a once-in-a-lifetime thing to pick up a book, find out it’s by an author your exact age and find so many parallels to your life growing up. “A Nostalgic Lens” by Peter Wurdock mirrors many of my own experiences growing up in the…
Review by Deborah K. Frontiera This nonfiction travelog/personal story The Palace of the Snow Queen by Barbara Sjoholm details her inward and outward journeys over three winter trips above the Arctic Circle in Norway, Sweden, and Finland. Originally published by Counterpoint Press in 2007, the new edition by U of…
Review by Victor R. Volkman I’ll admit it’s extremely rare for a book like Know Your Ships 2022: Field Guide to Boats and Boatwatching on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway to cross my desk, but I am extremely impressed by the beauty and detail that it packs into…
Reviewed by Victor R. Volkman As I read John Highlen’s new book Touching the Wild U.P., I became more and more interested in the coincidences of our respective lives. Both Highlen and I were students at Michigan Tech in the late 1980s and had a reverence for the beauty of…
