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Book Review - The Wife's Tale

On the eve of their Silver Anniversary, Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband Jimmy--still every inch the handsome star athlete he was in high school--to come home. As night turns to day, it becomes frighteningly clear to Mary that he is [...]

Posted On : Jan, 26 2010 | Comments : 1

February by Lisa Moore -review

In her excellent recent essay, “Shakespeare’s Daughters”, Rachel Cusk bemoans that novels about home life are still considered inferior to those tackling supposedly weightier matters like war, and calls on those who fic [...]

Posted On : Jan, 25 2010 | Comments : 0

Book World reviews 'Iron River' by T. Jefferson Parker

A fair-minded man, T. Jefferson Parker gives Second Amendment zealots a full voice in this artful and frightening thriller about gun trafficking on America's southern border. Newshounds know that the Mexican drug-cartel violence spil [...]

Posted On : Jan, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Review The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris

Joshua Ferris’s first novel, Then We Came to the End, won rave reviews through its artful and humorous look at office life. The book was honored with the PEN/Hemingway Award, and announced the arrival of a fresh, young talent on the s [...]

Posted On : Jan, 21 2010 | Comments : 0

Children's Book Reviews

In Cat the Cat's friendly world, names are an uncomplicated affair, most of the time. This early reader pictures Cat, an irrepressible kitty in a purple dress, skipping and cartwheeling to greet pals like Mouse the Mouse and Fish the Fish. [...]

Posted On : Jan, 20 2010 | Comments : 0

You review -The Book of Eli

Along comes the second post-apocalyptic tale to hit UK cinemas in the last month, and the critics have got this one pegged as the poor relation of John Hillcoat's The Road, which arrived first and is likely to stand the test of time rather [...]

Posted On : Jan, 19 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Review - Saddle Up With Jesus

Wanda Lynch opens with a poem tribute to her “Old Cowboy” husband. The author is enmeshed in the western culture and a part of the Cowboy Church movement. Thus, her poems tell the stories of this movement. A cowboy praising, tru [...]

Posted On : Jan, 16 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Review - Beyond the Night

A man with no future . . .When Dr. Elliott Drake wakes from a mysterious fifty-year sleep, the world as he knew it is gone. Cities are now desolate, and civilization is controlled by deadly immortals. Stranger still is Elliott's extraordina [...]

Posted On : Jan, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Book news and reviews from The Plain Dealer

swan.jpgLittle, Brown & Co., 564 pp., $26.95 Five years ago, Elizabeth Kostova located a juicy artery of pop culture with her atmospheric vampire novel, "The Historian." It turned into a guilty pleasure for millions of reader [...]

Posted On : Jan, 13 2010 | Comments : 0

The Book Review of the Future

Last month, when I received my copy of The San Francisco Panorama also known as McSweeney’s No. 33, or the “newspaper issue” I did the same thing you presumably do when The Sunday Times hits your doorstep: I we [...]

Posted On : Jan, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Review - Get connected

AS we move past the novelty of being in an interconnected world, the next area of focus is naturally – how do we harness it effectively? "The big idea in a world of Six Pixels of Separation is to embrace community as the new curr [...]

Posted On : Jan, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Review: Hows My Driving by Steve Dziadik

Oh, we have all done it. Some person causes us grief, a motorist stalls at an intersection, the light is green, but you miss it! Forced to wait for the lights to recycle, you silently utter curses, you beep the horn, you may even demonstrat [...]

Posted On : Jan, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

Travel book reviews: Life and Kipling Abroad

With a broad-ranging sweep across the world, Gunton and Holmes have captured and recorded some of the stranger manifestations of animal behaviour. A useful location map at the front of the book illustrates the fact that extreme animal beha [...]

Posted On : Jan, 05 2010 | Comments : 0

A World by Itself - a History of the British Isles review

When I was growing up, my most prized possession was a battered copy of Professor J M D Meiklejohn’s New History of England and Great Britain, published in 1903. From the very first words, “The British Empire, which now stretche [...]