Recalled

Totally Recalled
$1.99

Recalled to Life (Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries)
$7.99
"Recalled to Life" is one of the best and most challenging books of the Dalziel and Pascoe series and ultimately, one of the most enjoyable for the reader. The story revolves around the release from prison of a nanny involved in a 1960s sex/murder case involving A-list personalities in a manor house setting. The newly freed (and exonerated) woman creates a serious disturbance in the social and political equilibria which eventually leads to the entrance of the indomitable duo of Dalziel and Pascoe onto the scene.

The story that follows is one of author Reginald Hill's most creative labyrinths yet. Another great strength of this Dalziel and Pascoe novel is its ongoing humor, which goes into high gear when Dalziel follows the crime trail to America and collides with American English and Southern cooking.

Reginald Hill has no peer in mystery writing and his novels' characters are almost always flawlessly drawn and presented. He rarely insults or disappoints his readers, and with "Recalled to Life," he has only reinforced his reputation as one of the finest living authors of any genre practicing his trade today.

RECALLED - Rotozip 101227 Revolution Tool
$155.00

Recalled by Life
$12.95
Dr. Sattilaro's book it well written, seems honest and is informative. However, the plural of anecdote is not data. For the sake of full disclosure, I have eaten a mostly vegetarian diet (no red meat or poultry with some fish) for 38 years. The simple diet at the core of macrobiotics makes good general health sense. It is not the prescription rather the fanaticism of the prescribers that I question. I have known very few people who make more absolute claims with less data than those who push macrobiotics. In my experience, their zeal fits them with religious fanatics of all flavors. but, like all doctors (and all witch-doctors), they bury their mistakes.

As Mark Twain wrote long ago: "Be careful when you read health books; you might die of a misprint." I believe that resistance to absolutism and fundamentalism is a quality of life issue. As a general observation, fanaticism lowers the quality of life for the fanatics and for those around them. After I watched my dear friend, Bill Neal (a world-class macrobiotic fanatic), die of aggressive cancer complicated by macrobiotic-faith-healer misdiagnosis, I became more vocal in asserting that no approach to medicine can claim to have all the answers... especially those practices with almost none of the data.

My dad's mother had 13 children. My grandmother died of a heart attack after carrying a big vacuum-cleaner up three flights of stairs at the age of 85. She said something I've never forgotten: "This world would be a far better place if people paid as much attention to what comes out of their mouths as they do to what they put in'em." There's more to good health than good eating. Believing that you have all the answers while possessing almost none of the research is bad mental hygiene that leads to lousy medicine.

"Recalled By Life," is a good book. If you have cancer, or worry about getting it, certainly look at improving your diet, but don't fire your doctor; find a holistic healer, who did not skip medical school.

Joey Tranchina, M.A.
... Lest anyone take this as professional medical advice, my Master's Degree is in poetry.


PS. The title quote: "Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime..." from Reinhold Niebuhr's 'Irony of American History," is very beautiful.