cover image On the Wings of Eros: Nightly Readings for Passion and Romance [With Gold Ribbon Marker]

On the Wings of Eros: Nightly Readings for Passion and Romance [With Gold Ribbon Marker]

Alicia Alvrez. Conari Press, $14.95 (280pp) ISBN 978-1-57324-013-0

Dear Author: Students Write About the Books That Changed Their Lives, introduced by Lois Lowry, contains 75 of the more than 20,000 letters submitted to Read magazine's ``Letters About Literature'' contest for junior high and high school students. ``I was angry with you for making me face the truth,'' a daughter of divorced parents writes to Judy Blume; ``If you really are Holden Caulfield,'' a girl writes to J.D. Salinger, ``you are not only a famous literary character, you are my hero''; ``Niccolo,'' a boy tells Machiavelli, ``I believe your views are right, and that is exactly why I cannot become what you were, a politician'' (Conari, dist. by Publishers Group West, paper $9.95, 204p ISBN 1-57324-013-3 Sept.).