Pauline's Review

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(More customer reviews)This excellently written, well-thought-out book is a study in the philosophy of conscience on two levels: Pauline's as an individual, and that of the society in which she found it necessary to survive. We read first-hand of Pauline's own yearning after and struggle for decency, her despair over her rejection by the church, her compensatory generosity and altruism. She knows her sin: being mercenary, but somehow the memories that she treasures end by being more compassionate than mercenary, even as she insists that the vices of man put her own greed in the shadow. Above and beyond the person of Pauline Tabor is the question of where the oldest profession in the world fits or should fit in society. We see this being faced by the most influential people in the town, with no resolution. Humanity is still humanity. Adam was a man of the earth, nor can we moralize away the dust that clings to him. We don't see here the hard women of "East of Eden", but a real one, who faced with compassion issues more common to another time, when society was not as kind to women on their own.

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The Corvette Factories: Building America's Sports Car Review

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(More customer reviews)I am a Corvette nut. I love everything about the Corvette. This book gives great insight to how the Corvette came into being and how they were made. I've always been fascinated by car assembly plants and how they can turn out so many cars in a relatively short period of time. Now you can see pictures and read comments by the people that were on the line. From the beginning in 1953 to today's Bowling Green Assembly Plant. You'll be fascinated at how these cars come together.
The author also gives some great information about the different generations of Corvette. It's not just about the factories and the assembly lines.
I highly recommend this book.

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In its nearly six decades, Chevrolet\'s Corvette--America\'s only sportscar--has been produced in just three factories, first in St. Louis and now in Bowling Green. This book is the first to offer an up-close view of the process of building an automotive legend. From the rudimentary hand-formed fiberglass bodies in the St. Louis factory, to the state of the art production on the modern line in Bowling Green, The Corvette Factories takes readers through the story of the Corvette\'s evolution as the world\'s performance benchmark. Detailed archival photographs and the latest images provide a unique behind-the-scenes look at the Corvette as an exemplar of General Motors\' most advanced technology. Indispensable to Corvette fans and sportscar aficionados, this volume is also a critical chapter of automotive history.

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Crossing Decembers Review

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(More customer reviews)John Booth is one of my favorite authors of all time. In "Crossing Decembers" he tugs at the heartstrings, fills you with wonder, and leaves you desparate for more. A must read for anyone who's ever liked books!

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Five Mile Bridge has been closed for years, slowly decaying and seemingly forgotten over the fields west of Bryan, Ohio. Joshua Kendall stood there once with a friend now gone. But a return trip to the bridge washes Joshua backward in time and memory, giving him the chance to rediscover parts of his life he thought he'd lost. Yet even as he pries those memories loose like fossils from shale, Joshua's actions are rippling through the paths of time backward as well as forward, and as his mind wrestles with pasts he cannot remember, roads which have never existed are suddenly real.

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Bowling Green (Then and Now) (Then & Now) Review

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(More customer reviews)Like a lot of people, the first time I heard about the new pictorial, history book, "Then & Now: Bowling Green" by Kevin Comer and Ben Runner Jr., was on Facebook.These two authors were posting pictures and updating their status' about the book before it even hit the shelves. Naturally, I knew that I would like to have a copy of the book in my collection someday.Surprisingly, I received my copy as a Christmas gift this past December from my elderly next door neighbor's daughter. My wife and I always look after our neighbor throughout the year in many different ways. So, I was really happy to find out what the gift was when I opened it."Then & Now: Bowling Green" is a charming little book especially if you're a native of Bowling Green or lived here for a while like me. Unfortunately, I am not a native of this beautiful city with a population about 60,000 with additional 20,000 or so when all the Western Kentucky University students are in school. However, since I moved here in 1988, I have seen the city go through many changes in the last 23 years. I can only imagine being born here 49 years ago and then seeing all the changes. But this book will give you a quick glance into the past and what Bowling Green was like even 100 years ago or more. The book has some awesome pictures of buildings, streets and churches from the past with the latest views of the structures and streets next to them on the same page. It really does gives you a strong sense of the past of what it was like to live in Bowling Green in those good ole days. The book is broken down into seven chapters, "Landmarks," "Street Scenes," "Fountain Square," "Business and Education," "Transportation," "Education and Religion," and "Entertainment and Recreation." Mainly, it's fascinating to look at the pictures and compare them to see what life was probably like back then compared to living in Bowling Green these days.One of the biggest changes that Bowling Green has probably experienced in the last 40 years is that the major hub of business activity has moved from downtown "Fountain Square" to out on Scottsville Road near Interstate 65 and Campbell Lane. Scottsville Road and Campbell Lane is where all the restaurants, movie theatres and retail stores (Greenwood Mall) are these days compared to where they used to be-downtown. Even a lot of new shopping strip centers such as Buckhead Square on Campbell Lane have sprung up in Bowling Green in the last couple years too.Even if you don't live in Bowling Green anymore or have never lived here, this little book is a really interesting, quick read. But mainly, you'll want to purchase (Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com ) it for the pictures. It will help you take a step back in time into Kentucky's fourth largest city and relive the past.

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Then & Now: Bowling Green provides a sampling of change during the city's growth from small town to Kentucky's fourth-largest city. Once an important point by river or rail, Bowling Green now boasts tourism and a growing university along one of America's busiest interstates.

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