Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
I’ll admit I may be the only person on earth who did not love Emma Donoghue’s book club bonanza...
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Month: March 2014
Vernon Downs by Jaime Clarke
Some authors everybody has an opinion about. For instance, remember that controversial writer from...
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When We Fell In Love – Marina Peralta
I fell in love with reading in my teen years. I was a lonely teenager my books were my amazing...
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A Moody Fellow Finds Love and Then Dies by Douglas Watson
If you tell me that Douglas Watson isn’t the nicest person alive, I won’t believe you. A Moody...
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Mount Terminus by David Grand
Mount Terminus is an allegorical novel that’s at its best when it’s not. At times, it reminded me...
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When We Fell In Love – Tejas Desai
Faulkner on the Subway I attended a specialized high school in New York City in the 1990s so that...
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Being Dead in South Carolina by Jacob White
In Robert Altman’s McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Warren Beatty’s John McCabe—with all his roughness...
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When We Fell In Love – Chris Pavone
When Chris Pavone published his first novel, The Expats, about a lady spy coming in from the cold,...
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The Last Days of California by Mary Miller
They liked movies from the 80’s: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The Last Starfighter, Sixteen Candles,...
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The Heaven of Animals by David James Poissant
The first story in this collection entitled “Lizard Man” is a sharp and glorious concoction,...
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The Bosnia List By Kenan Trebincevic
I’ve read lots of books about the war in the former Yugoslavia; in fact there are three...
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Andrew’s Brain by E.L. Doctorow
It isn’t often that I search for other reviews of a book before finishing at least a draft...
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Police by Jo Nesbø
When Jo Nesbø’s Police showed up at my apartment a while back, I groaned in disappointment....
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A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain Giveaway
“A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain is a rich, haunting, original novel that captures...
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