Frederic Colier

Language Speaks To Us in ‘The Bilingual Revolution’

This book is about education and the teaching of foreign language in the American school system...and this book is about community and the use of other languages within a specific social framework...and just as importantly, this book is also about cultures, ancestries, foreign roots, identities, and above all how they…

Frederic ColierJanuary 18, 2018

Nonfiction

BookTrib Review: Jonathan White Captures the ‘Spirit of the Ocean’ in ‘Tides’

Something unexpected will happen upon reading the chapters of this captivating book. Your nostrils will feel the iodine-laden air brushing as the winds break like waves upon the shores of your assumptions. They will jolt into wakeness. If you ever thought that the constant ebb and flow of the sea…

Frederic ColierJanuary 10, 2018

Nonfiction

‘Never Out of Season’ Touches on a Science We Never Knew Existed, That of the Banana

The opening chapter of “Never Out of Season,” exposes the book premise flat out. It deals with the short history of the banana. This rather prosaic fruit, available in abundance, at least in New York, from every street vendors on most street corners, is not the result of simple happenstance…

Frederic ColierDecember 21, 2017

BooksToScreen Fiction

Messineo’s ‘The Fire by Night’ Sheds Light on Nurses During Wartime

Though all wars result in the same atrocious outcome, they are hardly similar in their origins. They often start with an incident, a provocation, appearing to be insignificant, but releasing long-supressed emotions. This can be a process which may take years to burn out. On May 8, 2017, we celebrated…

Frederic ColierOctober 17, 2017

Fiction

Berenson’s ‘The Prisoner’ Strikes a Delicate Balance Between Fear and Paranoia

In this age of great distrust, when even the most open-armed neighbor turns out to be a blood-thirsty sleeping cell waiting to enact some extremist cause, suspicion becomes the first natural line of defense, a secondary reflex when culture forces us to internalize the prevalence of danger. The Prisoner will…

Frederic ColierOctober 12, 2017

Fiction

Elliot Ackerman Has Endless Inspiration for ‘Dark At the Crossing’

Here is an author whose fiction cannot be separated from his life, or, if you indulge me, whose novels are based on his life. Once a marine, with an impressive five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, Elliot Ackerman is now a journalist based in Istanbul, from where he…

Frederic ColierOctober 11, 2017

Fiction

Scotland Yard Detective Duo Take on Murder in Crombie’s ‘Garden of Lamentations’

A new shipment from Texas transplant Deborah Crombie, brings another powerful thriller featuring the Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James. The most interesting aspect of Crombie’s novels, and this one (her 17th) does not fail to hit the high mark, lies in their characterizations. No two thriller writers…

Frederic ColierOctober 10, 2017

Nonfiction

In ‘The New Old Me,’ Meredith Maran Proves 60 Can Be the New 20

A great undiscovered jewel, and from what I infer, a book that deserves to get into every single book club in the nation, and beyond. My enthusiasm is perhaps excessive. There comes a time when a book appears and has valuable lessons to teach us. We learn something we never…

Frederic ColierAugust 29, 2017

Nonfiction

Pauline Lévêque and Florence Mars: The Culture of Raising Children

If you lived abroad for an extended period, even simply during a semester off while in college, you know that cultures are nothing alike. There is as much in common between Russian and Portuguese bread than between a whale and a tiger. That is what gives the world its colors…

Frederic ColierJuly 20, 2017

Frederic Colier

Language Speaks To Us in ‘The Bilingual Revolution’

BookTrib Review: Jonathan White Captures the ‘Spirit of the Ocean’ in ‘Tides’

‘Never Out of Season’ Touches on a Science We Never Knew Existed, That of the Banana

Messineo’s ‘The Fire by Night’ Sheds Light on Nurses During Wartime

Berenson’s ‘The Prisoner’ Strikes a Delicate Balance Between Fear and Paranoia

Elliot Ackerman Has Endless Inspiration for ‘Dark At the Crossing’

Scotland Yard Detective Duo Take on Murder in Crombie’s ‘Garden of Lamentations’

In ‘The New Old Me,’ Meredith Maran Proves 60 Can Be the New 20

Pauline Lévêque and Florence Mars: The Culture of Raising Children

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