Salvation Review

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(More customer reviews)I was surprised at how much I loved this book, it was very touching, compassionate book of journey and self discovery!!! A true book that makes you ask questions of how people come to the decisions they make in life and still go on living....

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To The Last Drop Review

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(More customer reviews)Wise paints a picture that's easy to believe: Texas invades New Mexico under the direction of a GW Bush-like bully, complete with a staff that's similar to the administration currently occupying the White House. The new war is all about water rights, and there's no help from D.C., as U.S. armed forces are bogged down in the middle east. Believable characters, good dialog, plenty of humor, and an accurate description of the people and places that make up modern day New Mexico make this a great read.

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"Often funny, as well as easy to imagine ... To The Last Drop envisions
just how quickly greed and thirst could spark another war between the states."
**** (4 stars)
-- High Times Magazine, April 2009

This is a novel of water, oppression and rebellion, enlivened by a tragic-comic cast from all sides of the conflict whose stories intertwine in unexpected ways.

When a slacker biologist accidentally discovers water in the parched desert of New Mexico, it triggers a war.Texas invades and occupies New Mexico, renaming it "New Texas."A desperate insurgency fights back with a brutal terror campaign throughout the territory.

"To The Last Drop" dramatizes today's global water crisis. This novel illuminates the development of the Southwest, the relationship between occupation and terrorism, and our all-consuming thirst for water.As Mark Twain put it, "Whiskey is for drinking, and water is for fighting over."

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A History of the Novel in Ants Review

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(More customer reviews)If you have an English major or English teacher on your gift list, this is the book they'll love to get.A great tour de force on the Novel As She Is Written--plus, you will never again step on an ant without wincing.Awesome, touching, funny--and delightfully irreverent.

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Why a history of the novel in ants? It makes perfect sense because ants live in an almost exclusively female society. And as Ian Watt noted in THE RISE OF THE NOVEL, the majority of eighteenth century novels were written by -- as well as read by -- women, adding that "the feminine sensibility was in some ways better equipped to reveal the intricacies of personal relationships and was therefore at a real advantage in the realm of the novel." The prevalence of women as readers and authors of fiction has continued to the present day. Within their all-female society, ants have conflicts, ants have ambitions anddisappointments, ants have victories and defeats. Inhabiting an underground fortress of winding, labyrinthine galleries, ants can be gothic or postmodernist as the plot requires. For them the above-ground world of predators and enemies has a painful realism when it is not violently picaresque. Imagine translating Jane Austen into ants: your six-legged heroine will have not one or two but hundreds of gossiping, posturing, romantically and socially ambitious sisters, all striving to get precedence of one another. Or don't bother imagining it for yourself -- just read A HISTORY OF THE NOVEL IN ANTS.Carol Hart is a freelance science writer with a rusty PhD in English Literature. She reads a great many novels and she never steps on ants. This is her first novel.

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