Book Reviews
August 21, 2009
- Amid the truly amazing (to me, at least) response to this book from creatures great and small has been one teeny sadness: a noticeable lack of hometown love.* (Brian Lehrer — seriously? Why don’t you think women should be allowed to read????) Still, I could not have chosen two more echt-hometown organs, nor more wondrous writeups, than those with Newsday** and THE POST!!!. Excerptry: From my ...
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August 17, 2009
- LABOR DAY, Joyce Maynard. Unusual novel about a 13-year-old boy, his divorced mom, and the escaped covict they bring home with them one long Labor Day weekend. Highly recommended.SHADES OF GREY, Clea Simon. A murder mystery. A dead cat turned ghost. A Gothic novel that somehow connects to the contemporary story. What more could you want? Smart and entertaining.IN THE SHADOW OF THE MASTER: CLASSIC ...
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August 11, 2009
- I have a new book about to be born. With CRAZY BEAUTIFUL set to publish in just 27 days, the early reviews are rolling in. Like having a baby, you always hope that the world will be kind to your new book. But when you've been doing this as long as I have, you know that no books inspire universal love, even the most popular. Why, look at Stephenie Meyer. A glance at Amazon shows that among the ...
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August 10, 2009
- Every now and then the reviewers get it exactly right, meaning I've no more work to do today than to copy and paste what Publishers Weekly wrote in their starred review of Christian Moerk's stunning thriller, DARLING JIM:Like the itinerant Irish storyteller at the crux of this riveting novel, Danish-born author Moerk mixes mythology, Arthurian legend, fairy tales, noir and horror in his American ...
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August 7, 2009
- Internet Book Database http://www.ibookdb.net/Top Authors This Week Robert Ludlum Wilbur Smith Kathy Reichs Douglas Adams Kat Richardson Elizabeth Adler Billie Livingston George Burton Adams J. K. Rowling Gayle Lynds More Author Statistics Top Books This Week And Mistress Makes Three Secret Seductions: 62 Naughty Nights, Lusty Liaisons, and Sexy Surprises The Truth About Wicca and Witchcraft ...
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August 5, 2009
- Next – a bit more on plotting. I've been dealing with my latest story board plotting system here, but I've also discussed my "needlepoint" approach to plotting at the Author Exchange Blog. On to today's post:In my routine blog-hopping, the topic of reviews has come up lately. How reviews for the same book can vary from one reviewer to the next. Whether they have any effect on sales. ...
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August 4, 2009
- Fiction writer and stand-up comic A L Kennedy's blog posts on the Guardian are always a great read, but this time I found her words even more poignant and hitting-home (is that a phrase?) than usual. She's talking about reviews, apropos her new short story collection, What Becomes, which comes out on Aug 6th and which I am eagerly awaiting! She says:[B]ook reviews are odd things. They emerge ...
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August 3, 2009
- SECRET SMILE, Nicci French. I've become addicting to these British thrillers penned by a husband/wife team. This one's about a woman named Miranda who dates a guy for just eight days, drops him, only to have him start dating her sister. Then things get really creepy and people start to die. Highly recommended.OUT OF THE POCKET, Bill Konigsberg. A gay high school quarterback is forced to come out ...
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August 3, 2009
- Find some air conditioning if you're in temperatures like mine (sorry to those of you in the southern hemisphere, don't mean to make you feel bad - stay warm) And then grab yourself a book. Want some reading ideas? The latest issue of The Short Review has plenty: First, we have not only a review of Chris Beckett's Edge Hill Prize-winning short story collection, The Turing Test ...
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July 26, 2009
- A good review here from Jackie at Farm Lane Books, who recommends Kill-Grief to “historical fiction fans with a stomach of steel!” There are some great comments from her readers too.I’ve been following this blog for a while and really like it. The reviews are helpful and concise, and there’s a good balance of well-known books and less high-profile ones. An excellent place to find ...
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