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Book Review: On the Edge

The Broken is a place where people shop at Wal-Mart and magic is nothing more than a fairy tale. The Weird is a realm where blueblood aristocrats rule and the strength of your magic can change your destiny. Rose Drayton lives on [...]

Posted On : Oct, 12 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review: Success and shoplifting

Two servings of failed shoplifting attempts and five servings of vague relationships compose the formula for Tao Lin’s first published novella, Shoplifting from an American Apparel. This is Lin’s formula for the book, not mine. [...]

Posted On : Oct, 08 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Reviews: True Compass

I am not in the habit of reading books from politicians. About politicians? I gobble them up. However, I expected True Compass, Ted Kennedy’s memoir, to be different. And make no mistake- it is absolutely worth your time. He has deepl [...]

Posted On : Oct, 06 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review - A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks

The December in the book’s title is in 2007 when the world was on the brink of total financial collapse. And the machinations of those that caused that collapse, or some of them, feature strongly in the story. The antihero is the noi [...]

Posted On : Oct, 05 2009 | Comments : 0

BOOK REVIEW - Dan Brown's latest is a cool journey.

Could 1514 A.D. be just an important date in the age of Leonardo, Machiavelli and Copernicus? Is Eight Franklin Square just the address of another nondescript building in northwest Washington, D.C.? Neither are what they seem in Dan Brown' [...]

Posted On : Oct, 03 2009 | Comments : 0

IN THE BLOOD (Book Review)

IN THE BLOOD by Miranda Luna is a story about a young woman who the "average" person would most likely label as problematic. Zoe Starr has an addiction to heroin and a far from healthy obsession with blood, in her art and i [...]

Posted On : Oct, 02 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review - Hunting Memories

Eleisha Clevon has begun a correspondence with fellow vampire Rose de Spenser. Both reluctant predators, they venture outside only when the hunger becomes unbearable, trying not to draw attention to themselves-and feel guilty when ending hu [...]

Posted On : Oct, 01 2009 | Comments : 0

Book review - Generosity

For the past 20 years or so, Richard Powers seems to have been engaged in a prodigious attempt to redress the imbalance of knowledge that was the subject of C.P. Snow's famous "Two Cultures" lecture. That, you will recall, was th [...]

Posted On : Sep, 30 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review: Enemies: World War II Alien Internment by John ...

It was simply coincidence that I began reading John Christgau’s Enemies: World War II Alien Internment the week of September 11. Yet it reinforced that the book may be more relevant today than when first published 25 years ago and San [...]

Posted On : Sep, 29 2009 | Comments : 0

Book review - 'The Year of the Flood' by Margaret Atwood

A waterless flood burns through cities, "spreading germ-ridden mobs, terror and butchery" like a pandemic. This future world that Margaret Atwood creates in The Year of the Flood is disturbing, dark and violent. What keeps the [...]

Posted On : Sep, 28 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review - Murder In The Magick Club by Byron A. Lorrier,...

My mother used to tell me that you cannot judge a book by its cover. Actually I disagree with her, without even reading a single line of the text you can learn a great deal. Before I delve into a book I always read the stuff that most peopl [...]

Posted On : Sep, 26 2009 | Comments : 0

Alan Clark - the Biography by Ion Trewin: review

Most politicians fall into one of two categories. There are those who are in it because they love the game, the intrigue, the feeling of proximity to great events. And there are those who go into politics to get things done. Of course, th [...]

Posted On : Sep, 25 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review: 'Dawn Light,' by Diane Ackerman

Diane Ackerman wants us to slow down and pay attention. Human beings are "creatures stricken by meaning, afflicted with purpose," she laments; that's why it's essential to stop and savor those instants when "time suddenly sna [...]

Posted On : Sep, 24 2009 | Comments : 0

Samuel Johnson by David Nokes - review

The playwright Arthur Murphy first came across Samuel Johnson in his lodgings “all covered with soot like a chimney-sweeper, in a little room, with an intolerable heat and strange smell”. And this was after the success of his la [...]