ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Susan's Website ~ Reviews</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="abstract" content="Susan Taylor Block, a Wilmington, North Carolina author." /> <meta name="description" content="Susan Taylor Block was born in Wilmington, North Carolina September 1, 1951. The daughter of Betty Hill and Joseph Wright Taylor, Jr., she has roots that go back deep into the history of hard working folks of 18th century North Carolina. 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Very entertaining, well written, and true.&quot; - <b>Bernie Reeves, Metro Magazine</b></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100">&nbsp;<br> </td> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" valign="top"> <div align="center"><img src="../images/campfrontcoverlow.jpg" width="50" /></div> </td> <td width="100%" valign="top"> <p>about... <i><b>While You're Up</b></i><br> &quot;Susan Taylor Block performed magnificently in her role as editor of <i><b>While You're Up</b></i> and has truly captured Jack Camp for posterity.&quot; - <b>General James M. Morgan, Jr. (Dean of the Faculty Emeritus, Virginia Military Institute) </b></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100">&nbsp;<br> </td> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" valign="top"> <div align="center"><img src="../images/quill-award.jpg" width="50" height="125"></div> </td> <td width="100%" valign="top"> <p>&quot;Susan Block might just possibly be the best cutline writer in the American South.&quot; - <b>Ben Steelman, Star News book critic, on &quot;Let's Read,&quot; UNC-W TV.</b></p> <p>&quot;Susan Taylor Block has a gift for grafting personality and place into a unique, revealing history.&quot; - <b>Walter E. Campbell, PhD, award-winning filmmaker, author, historian.</b></p> <p>"Block s blog (<a href="http://www.susantaylorblock.com">http://www.susantaylorblock.com/</a>) is one of the most charming stops on the Internet& " - <strong>Ben Steelman</strong></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100">&nbsp;<br> </td> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100"><a href="SRHBM.html"><img src="../images/SitRightHere-50.gif" width="50" height="78" border="0"></a></td> <td width="100%"><i><b>Sit Right Here Beside Me</b></i><br> &quot;Susan Taylor Block has turned her pen to poetry. The slender volume, entitled <i>Sit Right Here Beside Me</i>, is serendipitous - as in an attitude for making fortunate discoveries. Like a light shining over dark water picks up the iridescence from waves, Susan&#146;s verse sparkles with revelation of the diminutiveness that shows how significant details really are.She writes about every day situations experienced by many of us. Yet Susan expresses these mundane things in a slightly different way.&quot; <b>&#151; Blonnie Bunn Wyche, Encore Magazine</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100">&nbsp;</td> <td width="100%"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" valign="top"> <div align="center"><a href="CapeFearBeaches.html"><img src="../images/capefearbeaches-50.jpg" width="50" height="76" alt="Cape Fear Beaches" border="0"></a></div> </td> <td width="100%" valign="top"><i><b>Cape Fear Beaches</b></i><br> &quot;A sweeping tale of Carolina Beach and Wrightsville Beach, as well as neighboring African American communities. <i>Cape Fear Beaches</i> is enriched with century-old photographs, oral histories of trolley car days, and the memories of people like George Evans, son of famed artist Minnie Evans.&quot; <b>&#151; Elaine Henson, Carolina Beach historian.</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100"><br> </td> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100"> <div align="center"><a href="CapeFearLost.html"><img src="../images/Books_CapeFearLost-50.gif" width="50" height="75" border="0"></a></div> </td> <td width="100%" valign="top"><i><b>Cape Fear Lost</b></i><br> &quot;While Susan Taylor Block&#146;s book <i>Cape Fear Lost</i> is aptly titled, she has done a superb job of at least pictorially salvaging much of the architectural heritage that has vanished from Wilmington and its environs. She skillfully has selected and annotated about 180 photographs and drawings depicting structures that are physically removed from the landscape but are visually preserved in this volume.&quot; &#151; <b>The North Carolina Historical Review</b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100"><br> </td> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100"> <div align="center"><img src="../images/Books_vaneeden-50.jpg" width="50" height="80"></div> </td> <td width="100%" valign="top"><b><i>Van Eeden</i></b><br> &quot;I would like to thank you for sharing that piece of history I never knew.&quot; <b>&#151; Elie Wiesel, Boston University</b> (August 9, 1996) </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100"><br> </td> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100"> <div align="center"><img src="../images/Books_temple-50.gif" width="50" height="64"></div> </td> <td width="100%" valign="top">&quot;In this wonderfully researched, beautifully illustrated, and surprisingly entertaining volume, author Susan Taylor Block tells of the many leading lights of political, religious, and artistic life whose stories are intertwined with that of St. James Church.&quot; &#151; <b>Matthew Brown, N. C. Historical Review</b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100"><br> </td> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" valign="top"> <div align="center"><a href="shirtmaker.html"><img src="../images/Books_shirtmaker-50.jpg" width="50" height="76" border="0"></a></div> </td> <td width="100%"> <p><i><b>Tales of a Shirtmaker</b></i> <br> The hard-working Block family of Wilmington built a legacy with their manufacturing company, Block Shirts. Fred Block, grandson of the firm's founder, describes growing up in his close-knit, middle-class Jewish family, his years of military service, and going to work for Block Industries, where he eventually became chief executive officer. <b>&#151; Catherine Harden, Our State Magazine</b></p> <p>Following the injunction to &#147;record and remember,&#148; Frederick L. and Susan Taylor Block have produced a moving narrative of a Jewish boy growing up in Wilmington, North Carolina, and assuming the reins of his family&#146;s textile business. In <i>Tales of a Shirtmaker</i> the ordinary rings true and eloquent. Fred Block&#146;s engaging, humorous, and candid account, conscientiously edited by his wife Susan Block and richly illustrated with historic photographs, is oral history at its evocative best. &#151; <b>Dale Rosengarten, curator, Jewish Heritage Collection, College of Charleston</b> </p> <p><i>Tales of a Shirtmaker</i> is a fascinating history of one of North Carolina's most prominent Jewish families and their business. The story is told by Fred Block, the hard-working visionary, who was the last family member to head Block Industries, an equal opportunity employer of thousands, and a producer of untold millions of shirts. &#151;<b> Herbert Zimmer, Wilmington </b></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100"> </td> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> </table> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><br> </p> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <table align="center" width="760" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <!--DWLayoutTable--> <tr> <td width="760" height="5" valign="top"><img src="../images/Spacer.gif" width="1" height="1"></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="22" valign="top" class="Copyright">Copyright &copy; - 2005 | <a href="http://www.stblock.com">www.stblock.com</a> | <a href="http://www.gotboda.com" target="_blank">Web Services provided by gotBODA? Solutions</a></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>