Search Results for 'Review'

Three Kings – Book Review

This concisely written and well documented work covers the “Truman Doctrine…the essential rubric under which the United States projected its power globally after World War II. The ideological foundation for the “im [...]

Posted On : Mar, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

Book review - 'The Surrendered' by Chang-rae Lee

Chang-rae Lee's three previous novels were all commandeered by forceful narrators, each with a distinct voice and each struggling to find his moorings in a swiftly changing cultural landscape. First was bereaved young Henry Park [...]

Posted On : Mar, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Book review - Susan Coll reviews 'The Heights' by Peter Hedg...

What's best about Brooklyn Heights is the view, says Kate, the young wife in Peter Hedges's third novel, which is as much an ode to a beloved neighborhood as a tale of contemporary marriage. "Standing on the Promenade, a sli [...]

Posted On : Mar, 10 2010 | Comments : 0

Capsule children's book reviews

This extraordinary novel is a fantastic glimpse of what life is like for a profoundly disabled girl whose body constantly betrays her fine mind. Melody, 11, has spastic bilateral quadriplegia (cerebral palsy) that silences her voice and [...]

Posted On : Mar, 09 2010 | Comments : 0

Dying to be Famous - Book Review

This book is the third in the brilliantly addictive new series of murder mysteries by an acclaimed and popular writer. Poppy Fields and best friend Graham are astonished to be given parts in a musical production of "The Wizard of Oz [...]

Posted On : Mar, 08 2010 | Comments : 0

Book review - Michael Dirda reviews

That great woman of letters Mary McCarthy once described playful, intricately structured novels -- like Nabokov's "Pale Fire" and Felipe Alfau's "Locos" -- as her "fatal type." She couldn't resis [...]

Posted On : Mar, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

Murder By the Book review - Barry Unsworth's Land of Marvels

In "Land of Marvels," Barry Unsworth captures the world on the cusp of momentous change. World War I has not yet started, but the major Western nations already have begun to ally themselves around economic concerns. Further, En [...]

Posted On : Mar, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

West to the Sun – T.G. Good: Book Review

It is a good omen for the cover of a book intended to tell the story of the great emigrant trails across the far western frontier, to feature an illustration of a covered wagon pulled by the appropriate numbers of the appropriate draft a [...]

Posted On : Mar, 03 2010 | Comments : 0

Book World - Carolyn See reviews Deep Creek by Dana Hand

Deep Creek" is a gripping, spooky historical novel, told in a way that closely resembles real life. What happens isn't laid out for us in a pretty and accessible way. We come across a character's name and can't quite pla [...]

Posted On : Feb, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Review - In an Antique Land

In an Antique Land was a unique book for me, as its two threads focus on a small town that I grew up in for the first 20+ years of my life and a Country that I have lived in for the last 3 years. So I had a unique connect with this book. [...]

Posted On : Feb, 25 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Review - The Lomborg Deception

In naming roustabout, lumberjack, ironworker, and dairy farmer America's “worst jobs,” CareerCast.com omitted one whose awfulness is counterbalanced only by its public-spiritedness: fact-checking Bjørn Lomborg. [...]

Posted On : Feb, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

Little Hands Clapping by Dan Rhodes - review

Dan Rhodes’s first book was a collection of perfectly honed miniatures, each 101 words long, and the discipline needed to keep them so tight while suggesting so much has served him well. He has written more expansively since, but h [...]

Posted On : Feb, 22 2010 | Comments : 0

Critical eye - Book reviews roundup

"By Peter Carey's standards, this is a remarkably mellow book; he used to treat his characters far more ruthlessly," Thomas Jones wrote in the Observer, reviewing Parrot and Olivier in America. "And yet this newfound g [...]

Posted On : Feb, 20 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Reviews - Wolves of the Beyond

“My name is Faolan. I am a wolf. But not just any wolf, I am the Lone Wolf. Raised by an unexpected creature for a mother, and taught everything but how to be a wolf. I was born with a twisted paw—and on that paw a mysterious [...]