Monthly Archives: June 2007

Bill’s Best Books

This month’s Bill’s Best Books col­umn has been posted to the ALAN Online. Books Reviewed are: The Ghost In Allie’s Pool The Mid­dle Of Some­where Open Court Leav­ing Par­adise Girl Over­board Right Behind You Red Spikes True Tal­ents Harm­less Sammy Keyes And The Wild Things A Field Guide To High School Kat Got Your Tongue

What Deadliest Catch Teaches About Fiction

The Dis­cov­ery Chan­nel has a show I’m sure you’ve seen or heard about, Dead­liest Catch.  It’s a run­ning series about a fleet of real-life crab­bers work­ing the Bering Sea.  The money’s is fan­tas­tic, the weather is wretched, and the chances of fish­er­men dying are pretty high. Dis­cov­ery Chan­nel has another series, Lob­ster­men, about a group