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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Spoken in Darkness: Small-Town Murder and a Friendship Beyond Death Review

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(More customer reviews)Spoken in Darkness is the book The Dead Girl wanted to be. It is more a memoir about growing up in a town that doesn't care and beginning to question why it doesn't care, than about the actual incident. Imbrie asks how her and her friend's lives ended up so different...and why she didn't know about the darkness in her friend's life...how they lost touch...and how her friend slipped away. At the end, Imbrie asks how this world can hold such evil as the animal that took out his hatred on her friend that slipped through the cracks in our fragile world so long ago. Every woman knows that the line between a safe, protected life and being lost in a dark basement forever is thin. Very thin. Every woman knows that our safetey depends on the caring of each other. This is what this book is about. The Dead Girl has some passages I underlined about safety, but Spoken In Darkness is elegaic. Neither book is really about the victim or the perpetrator. Both are about why we care and look out for each other ... or lose sight of each other , let go of eather other's hand, in our dark, dangerous world

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Northern Reflections: A Lighthearted Account of "Growing up North" (Northern Mania) Review

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(More customer reviews)In the introduction to his book "Northern Reflections", Jerry Harju reveals that it's a book about growing up in Michigan's Upper Peninsula in the 1940's and is perhaps most appreciated by those who can identify with that.
While I'm familiar with Upper Michigan and its culture, I did not grow up in the 40's, and still found plenty of good reading here.
If you're new to reading humorous books (as I am), I recommend this one as a great place to start. It's an easy read, comprised of short chapters, each its own story, so you can pick it up, read a chapter, and come back for more later as time permits.
The author's humor has a wonderful way of sneaking up on a person. And just when I thought it couldn't get any funnier, I'd start the next chapter, and before I knew it, I'd find myself doubled over with even greater helpless laughter! Teens may appreciate it, too. From a first job, to dating, to his first car, Jerry covers it all, against the backdrop of small-town life in the rugged climate of northern Michigan.
"Yoopers" (as U.P.'ers are known), especially, should appreciate it; but even if you're not a Yooper, there's still lots to laugh about.

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Northern Reflection is a collection of wild,wacky, and nostalgic short stories based on the author Jerry Harju'schildhood in Upper Michigan in the 1940's.His youthful adventuresinclude standing on the railroad tracks to play chicken with anoncoming ore train, riding on a fire truck to a blaze at his ownhouse, and the difficulties of picking up girls in the midst of afrigid Michigan winter.

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