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I read What Good is God for a discussion with the Faith and Fiction Roundtable, though this work is non-fiction. This was my first experience reading this type of book, organized as a series of background articles on different issues like the shootings at Virginia Tech, missionaries in China, and the harrowing results of prostitution. [...]
In the Linus’s Blanket version of twenty questions, I send a list of questions to a willing victim author and they choose which questions and how many questions they want to answer. Brunonia Barry, who wrote the novel The Map of True Places, played along and answered sixteen questions. Here is what Brunonia had to [...]
Food in books is not always plentiful or yummy, especially when you live in a dystopian society where the goal of food may be primarily for sustenance and nutrition, and not personal taste or pleasure. In Enclave by Ann Aguirre food is such a function of survival that it isn’t even named. It’s exactly what [...]
In the Linus’s Blanket version of twenty questions, I send a list of questions to a willing victim author and they choose which questions and how many questions they want to answer. It’s basically a choose your own interview type deal. Deborah Bedford, author of His Other Wife, played along and answered thirteen questions. Here [...]
A few years ago now, I read and reviewed Daniel Woodrell’s Winter’s Bone and loved it for its grim, gritty reality and plucky teenage heroine, Ree Dolly. I can’t say that I was too surprised to see that the novel went on to become the basis of a successful and award-winning independent film of the [...]
I first heard about Michael Crummey’s Galore last December when Other Press hosted a happy hour for bloggers and publishing industry professionals showcasing their current and upcoming catalog. The folks there were very excited about Galore and I was very intrigued by the premise, a man being cut from the belly of a whale and [...]
Impatient With Desire: A Novel (subtitled The Lost Journal of Tamsen Donner) by Gabrielle Burton is a historical fiction novel that recreates the story of the final days of the infamous Donner party (known chiefly for cannibalism after a failed attempt in 1847 to go west to California by wagon train) through the diary entries, [...]
I have written before about not liking to watch book trailers unless I watch them after I have read the book. They can give away too much information about the book, or, maybe for me just as bad, put what the characters look like into my head. I like to do that for myself based [...]
I am on a roll with the bookish movie trailers. I posted the trailer for The Help on tumblr, so I am going with the other big movie for my blog. Is anyone planning to see this, this weekend or at all? What I love about the trailer is that it is very much like [...]
In the Linus’s Blanket version of twenty questions, I send a list of questions to a willing victim author and they choose which questions and how many questions they want to answer. Alma Katsu, author of the highly anticipated novel The Taker, played along and answered twelve questions. Here is what Alma had to say [...]
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