When We Fell In Love – Jane Vandenburgh
Early reader? Let’s just say that had the word had currency in the L.A. of the Fifties, I’d have...
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Month: April 2013
Solea by Jean-Claude Izzo
“We had nothing to lose, because we’d already lost everything.” Fabio is in a favorite bar with...
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Woke Up Lonely by Fiona Maazel
The publisher’s letter to the reader in the front of my review copy of Woke Up Lonely suggests there are two ways to read the novel: speedily while being propelled by the action or taking one’s time to savor Maazel’s precision, wit, and prose.…
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Giveaways
We’ve got three books to give to our readers this week: Our Frail Blood – This is a finished copy. Read this week’s review of OFB Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls, David Sedaris Essays (on sale 4-13) Advanced Reading Copy The Shanghai Factor, Charles McCarry (on sale 6-13) If you want one, drop a line to jr@threeguysonebook.com.…
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The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
I’m hard pressed to find a character with a more vexing charm than Don Tillman, a genetics professor specializing in Asperger’s, and the spectrum of personality disorders.…
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My Trip To The Strand
Something’s happened to me recently. Maybe it’s just a coincidence, but I’d tend to think not. If you’re a fan of the site at all, you’re aware that we’re (I can say we’re now, I’m in the “About Us” page!)…
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Our Frail Blood by Peter Nathaniel Malae
Our Frail Blood by Peter Nathaniel Malae, is a brilliant, heroically Catholic novel. Dense, Proustian in its savor of the quality of time and its lost chances.…
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Chourmo by Jean-Claude Izzo
Fabio Montale, the detective hero of Total Chaos, lives in Les Goudes, a sort-of harbor enclave removed from central Marseilles. You could be excused for thinking it’s an isolated village but it’s actually an urban district of the city.…
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