PositiveThe Post and Courier... what sets [Shelton\'s] memoir apart are its insights into the process of filmmaking, from the initial concept through to the script stage, casting, assembling a crew, production and post-production. It’s a remarkably lucid and instructive primer.
J. Nicole Jones
PositiveThe Post and CourierReading Low Country...is like listening to a country music song written by Dostoyevsky (lots of crime, but the wrong folks getting punished), with Tom Robbins as his side man. And a little Tennessee Williams thrown in. There’s no doubt this talented young woman can write, often brilliantly. Many a passage of this familial strife and personal coming-of-age chronicle fairly hums on the page, amplified by sharp observation, razor-edge emotion and a delicious turn of phrase ... The book opens on a mournful tenor which is generally sustained throughout, though with a magma chamber of rage just below the surface. Jones’ eccentric use of language, while arresting, could have used judicious cutting, the digressions particularly. Editing can be a tightrope walk between retaining the author’s distinctive voice and reining in her more self-indulgent impulses. And sometimes Jones overplays her hand, extending a delightful phrase past the breaking point. Wonderful descriptions, metaphors and similes compete with strained ones.
Robyn Arianrhod
PositiveThe Post and CourierRobyn Arianrhod...adds the latest cornerstone to the edifice of Harriot’s resurrected reputation. Hers is an authoritative, often engrossing marriage of history and science ... By studying his life and career, Harriot helps us understand how modern mathematics and science began to emerge. Arianrhod’s is a significant achievement.
Oliver Sacks
RaveThe Post and Courier...a fitting coda to an exemplary literary and medical career, displaying the essential humanity and spaciousness of mind that his readers have long come to expect ... Contained in this wide-ranging valedictory volume are the customary clinical case studies from his medical practice, generally in aid of clarifying a condition or illuminating a concept. But there is also an array of musings ... Sacks offers passionate odes to libraries, photography’s revelations on movement, fossil botany, gardens, the wonder of crystals ... Sacks, justifiably called the \'poet laureate of science,\' will be keenly missed, not only for the elegance and potency of his writing, but for his critically important championing of science in an age of science denial.
Jan Morris
PositiveThe Post and Courier\"... these brief, daily entries range so widely, from sharp, wistful or cranky to eccentric and grandmotherly. Of course, as with most undertakings of this sort, the entries are highly variable and their qualities uneven ... At her best, Morris is perceptive and astute, her tenor improvisational ... But she also can be naive and a bit gloomy.\
