"Full Bloom" demands a dramaturge as much as its otherwise engaging heroine needs help.
In the course of his Zelig-like tour through a half-century of behind-the-scenes sports and sports journalism stories, Deford cuts a whole bakery full of pie, which mars an otherwise engaging and modest narrative about someone who has spent his career, after all, as an observer.
Plenty of studies have shown links between quality parent time — such as reading to a child, sharing meals, talking with them or otherwise engaging with them one-on-one — and positive outcomes for kids.
David S. Reynolds's otherwise engaging review of Elliott J. Gorn's new biography of the labor leader Mother Jones (March 25) bothered me in one instance -- his description of her opposition to woman suffrage as a "reactionary stance".
Industrious, yes, but enormously sunny and engaging, as well.
"This book is about what economists do in their secret lives as economists, when they aren't dashing off op-eds to tell everybody else what to believe, pulling the wool over undergraduates' eyes in textbooks, or otherwise engaging in public relations," he writes.
Not mentioned in your otherwise engaging article about psychotherapy in Argentina ("Do Argentines Need Therapy? Pull Up a Couch," front page, Aug. 19) is the political context.
Cary, also the author of a well-regarded memoir, "Black Ice," works hard to insert background information about property rights into an otherwise engaging narrative.
(The music, by Icelandic "post rock" band Sigur Rós, is engaging, as well).
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