The Redbreast, by Joe Nesbo – Book Review
Early last week Harper Collins hosted a release party for Joe Nesbø’s new book, The Devil’s Star – the latest in a series of novels about Norwegian detective, Harry Hole. I am always on the look out for a well written detective series, and while catching up with Amanda (Life and Times of A “New” [...]
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, by Seth Grahame-Smith – Book Review
Shortest book synopsis ever on Linus’s Blanket, if you don’t count this sentence, which you can’t. Abraham Lincoln is a vampire hunter! There, all done.
I really liked this book. The most absurd thing about it is the premise, and I found myself reacting to the fact that I was indeed reading a book about Abraham [...]
One Amazing Thing, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni – Book Review
One Amazing Thing, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni opens with a young woman sitting in an Indian passport and visa office in an unidentified city in the United States (my guess is somewhere in California), observing the employees and the other varied strangers seeking travel visas to India. An older couple with marital problems, an [...]
Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel, by Eoin Colfer & Andrew Donkin – Book Review
Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel is my second experience reading a graphic novel and I really enjoyed reading it, even though I had very mixed feelings about the anti-hero/protagonist Artemis Fowl. I mostly didn’t like him or the methods he used to retrieve his family fortune. I was rooting against him for most of the [...]
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz
Oscar’s best friend (and narrator of the novel) Yunior decides to explore the fuku (curse) on Oscar’s family, and so traces their history in New Jersey and the Dominican Republic as the fuku escalates throughout the generations, finally culminating in Oscar’s death. That is the story in a teeny-tiny little nutshell. This novel is much, much bigger [...]
Beautiful Creatures, by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
Ethan Wate is an accepted member of the Gatlin, South Carolina community. Though his family may be dismissive of “The War Between The States” and Civil War re-enactments they are still viewed as part of the establishment of which Ethan has grown weary. From Ethan’s vantage point as a star on the basketball team- knee [...]
The Cradle, by Patrick Somerville
Working double shifts at the plant and trying to save every penny that he can in anticipation of he and his wife’s first child, Matt is hesitant when his wife Marissa comes to him with the request that he find and retrieve an antique Civil War cradle that she had as a child, and which her [...]
The Hidden, by Tobias Hill
Having fled his hometown, school and his spectacularly failed marriage, Ben Mercer has retreated to the tiny town of of Metamorphosis, Greece, where he whiles away the hours living simply as a grill worker in a meat shop and working on his thesis on the peculiarities of ancient Sparta and the customs and psychology of [...]
May 2010
A Gift From Brittany, Marjorie Price
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