Comments for 8 Hamilton Ave.

Comment on About by Gina Webb

Gina Webb — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 03:53:49 +0000

Hi Jan and Bob! Thanks for reading my reviews and my blog. I love your store — need to get back out to Brookhaven soon and do some browsing again.

Comment on About by Atlanta Vintage Books

Atlanta Vintage Books — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:08:10 +0000

We enjoy your articles in the Sunday AJC. Thanks for bringing good literature to the Atlanta community! So glad to have found your blog! Jan and Bob, Atlanta Vintage Books

Comment on Sea of Joy by Gina Webb

Gina Webb — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:55:16 +0000

… it cracks but doesn’t crumble. But still, a wrenching read, because he and his wife are up against so much with their son. (I’ll bring it Sunday, you can take a look.)

Comment on Sea of Joy by Gina Webb

Gina Webb — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:15:57 +0000

Thank you, Mary Anna!

Comment on Sea of Joy by Suz

Suz — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:05:49 +0000

Fantastic review. If I hadn’t sworn off hyper realistic crumbling marriage dramas for now, I’d put it at the top of my list.

Comment on Sea of Joy by mary anna

mary anna — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:01:51 +0000

wow Gina. alluring review. You chose a great title for the review- you can’t read it without singing it immediately…I’ll have to find time to read this one. love the ittlle daub of creamyness on the bottom…

Comment on The Seed Underground: Janisse Ray wants to save your food by Gina Webb

Gina Webb — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 03:56:48 +0000

Thanks, Nancy — I just finished reading your piece on Rebecca Reeder-Hunt (http://www.magazine.tcu.edu/Magazine/Article.aspx?ArticleId=668) and loved it. I’m sure anyone interested in Janisse Ray’s book would see the troubling similarities in what’s happening to orangutan habitat: “Large-scale timber and oil palm plantations, illegal logging, and forest fires that grow more intense as the climate changes are wreaking havoc in Borneo, where less than 20 percent of the forests of Central Kalimantan remain free from threat.”

Comment on The Seed Underground: Janisse Ray wants to save your food by Nancy Allison

Nancy Allison — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:22:35 +0000

“Ray boldly seduces us into joining this critical and much-needed revolution.” And with reviews like this, you do as much by tempting us to read Ray’s book and join the war “…against the loss of our stories, our history, our connections with each other…”
Great review, Ms. Webb!

Comment on Gone Girl returns! by Maureen

Maureen — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:12:29 +0000

It was a great read, and your reviews and perspectives always adds so much,

Comment on The Most They Ever Had, Rick Bragg by Sharon Heenan

Sharon Heenan — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 23:33:48 +0000

I have become a recent fan of Rick Bragg’s books and plan to read all of them. He tells a powerful story of his family which brought me both tears and laughter.

Comment on Crawling from the Wreckage: The Evening Hour by Jessica Handler

Jessica Handler — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:43:33 +0000

I want to drop everything and read this book. And like so many of us, I am seeking safety, that elusive thing.

Comment on Crawling from the Wreckage: The Evening Hour by Victoria

Victoria — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:43:08 +0000

ps – the proposed Walmart is in Decatur at Suburban Plaza. Avondale Estates denied them access within city limits in 2005 and won.

The Plaza is in ‘greater’ Decatur in Dekalb county, so it doesn’t fall within that city’s limits, unfortunately. But thanks for the thought!

Comment on Crawling from the Wreckage: The Evening Hour by Gina Webb

Gina Webb — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:32:04 +0000

It sure does a number on you to watch a neighborhood go from affordable to gentrified, as houses no one you know can ever buy go up and trees that have sheltered it all from noise and extreme heat/cold changes go down. I saw it turn Brookhaven into a showroom, and I’m glad I was long gone when the WalMart went in on Peachtree.

Even here, in leafy Sagamore Hills, the removal of a next-door neighbor’s pines, front and back, has left our house colder in the winter and hotter in the summer. The noise baffle is disappearing; at night, traffic sounds no longer die down.

But for all these complaints, nothing could compare to an entire town under the big boot of a corporate coal company. Like Big Oil (or Big Anything), they have no soul, no plan for the future except profits. And it’s clear that none of this — not the WalMart in Avondale or the restructuring of Brookhaven — would happen in an area where wealthy people live. The vulnerable can always fight back, but not without numbers and solidarity to balance the power. That’s what the unions knew so well.

And speaking of fights, may your campaign against WalMart turn in Avondale’s favor!

Comment on Crawling from the Wreckage: The Evening Hour by Victoria

Victoria — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:33:16 +0000

Another book I’ll have to borrow. Gina, you may be the only writer who adds the perfect soundtrack to her words. Moving review.

I’m dealing with the transformation of place over here in Avondale and what progress means on the ground; the loss of hundred year old trees and relocated birds. It’s a sad thing to watch.

Comment on Crawling from the Wreckage: The Evening Hour by Gina Webb

Gina Webb — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:01:01 +0000

Glad you liked it, Dave. This book sure got under my skin — it wouldn’t leave me alone even after I’d written myself into several corners with the original review of it.