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Anna's Reviews > Total Tattoo Book

Whereas Body Piercing and Tattoos, which is part of the “Social Issues Firsthand” series of Gale Cengage Learning, seems to regard tattoos as a social problem, The Total Tattoo Book is more of a generalist’s book on tatt [...]

Posted On : Apr, 13 2012 | Comments : 0

Elisa Ramblings's Reviews

Quinn is a wild guy who loves sex and sex and sex. He search it in the clubs, loves to adorne him with lipstick, eyeliner and dyed hair. But one day one of the guys he lures, tries to kill him and then committes suicide. Quinn is sure thi [...]

Posted On : Dec, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

The Purveyor Reviews: Cooking With Vodka Blog

At The Purveyor we appreciate fine food almost as much as we like great wines, spirits, champagnes and cocktails. There is of course a fine tradition of not only enjoying alcohol along side food but actually using it as a key ingredient.& [...]

Posted On : Aug, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Travel book reviews: Outlaw and Unjustifiable Risk

This is the extraordinary story of Phoolan Devi, who became known as the “Bandit Queen” of India. She grew up in Uttar Pradesh, was married at 11, and then kidnapped and raped by bandits. Aware she would be stigmatise [...]

Posted On : Jul, 13 2010 | Comments : 0

Book reviews- Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky and 'The Sha...

When I was looking for a job after college, I bought the Sunday New York Times and scanned the classifieds, circling promising descriptions with a red pen. I mailed in my resume and waited for a call on my landline. That was 11 years [...]

Posted On : Jul, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

Critical eye - book reviews roundup

Lytton Strachey called Forster the "Taupe", or mole, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst pointed out in assessing Wendy Moffat's EM Forster: A New Life in the Daily Telegraph, and "it is hard to make a case for someone who only o [...]

Posted On : Jun, 19 2010 | Comments : 0

Critical eye - book reviews roundup

His great skill is to make daily life simultaneously strange and familiar, and in so doing help us to recognise ourselves. At Home is a treasure: don't leave home without it." So Judith Flanders judged Bill Bryson's At Home: [...]

Posted On : Jun, 07 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Reviews - New Thrillers

Our book critic Alan Cheuse, himself a novelist, created his own little book club this spring, one that focuses on thrillers. He has read himself through the newest batch of commercial contenders for best rip-roaring narrative, and [...]

Posted On : Jun, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Travel book reviews: Among the Iranians and Roadside America

This compelling book is the result of 100,000 miles Margioles travelled across the United States over three decades. In it he rebels against the increasingly standardised American life and culture alongside the new interstates, chang [...]

Posted On : May, 19 2010 | Comments : 0

Book review - Ron Charles reviews 'Solar' by Ian McEwan

This has been a bad month for the penis. Two weeks ago, a character in Lionel Shriver's "So Much for That" castrated himself in a fit of deadly rage. And now comes Ian McEwan's "Solar," whose funniest scene in [...]

Posted On : Apr, 01 2010 | Comments : 0

Book review - Michael Dirda reviews "The Changeling," by Ken...

Most novels contain at least some autobiography. In Saul Bellow's "Humboldt's Gift" and "Ravelstein," for instance, we can recognize two of the author's old friends, the writer Delmore Schwartz and the Uni [...]

Posted On : Mar, 25 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

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 [...]