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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Carnivore, by Mark Sinnett
Ray Townes and his wife Mary have had a mostly antagonistic relationship over the fifty odd years of their marriage. Unfortunately their problems started relatively early – stemming from the events surrounding 1954- the year that Hurricane Hazel hit Toronto, and the year that Ray became a hero saving people all up and down the [...]
Story of A Marriage, by Andrew Sean Greer
Pearlie and Holland are childhood sweethearts from Kentucky who have found each other again after being separated when Holland went off to war. Holland is a troubled man when he returns and though his elderly spinster aunts try to warn Pearlie that she should not marry Holland on account of his being “ill”, they only [...]
Daniel O’Thunder, by Ian Weir: Green Books Campaign
This review is part of the Green Books campaign. Today more than 100 bloggers are reviewing 100 books printed in an environmentally friendly way. Ideally publishers will want to consider the benefits of getting greener and readers will start taking the environment into consideration when purchasing books. This campaign is organized by Eco-Libris, a a green company working to [...]
May 2010
A Gift From Brittany, Marjorie Price
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