Monday, September 24, 2012

ROADSIDE PICNIC

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The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming ! Whoops, wrong story. I meant, the aliens are coming, the aliens are coming! Whoops, no ...
Monday, September 17, 2012

The Thirteenth Tale

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The launching of Diane Setterfield's writing career couldn't have gone better. This novel published in 2006 is reminiscent of the ...
Wednesday, September 5, 2012

THE EPIPHANIST

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The author sent me a copy of this novel to review: The debut novel of William Rosencrans may have spawned a new genre of writing. It...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

The Master and Margarita

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This is a brilliant and complex work of art by Mikhail Bulgakov written in 1930s Russia and unpublished until 1966, 26 years after the aut...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012

BLOOD AND THUNDER

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The title of the book is the moniker used to describe the dime novels written about Kit Carson's adventures during the turbulent India...
Sunday, July 29, 2012

The Swan Thieves

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Elizabeth Kostova avoids the sophomore jinx with her second epistolary novel. While this volume isn't the fearsome novel that The Hist...
Friday, July 13, 2012

ISAAC'S STORM

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The deadliest natural disaster in America is told by one of the rising stars in literature, Erik Larson. The time is 1900; the place is Ga...
Thursday, July 5, 2012

FIVE LITTLE PIGS

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Wee, wee, wee, I had the right murderer, but then I changed my mind; I shouldn't have. Mais voyons, I made a faux pas that Hercule n...
Saturday, June 30, 2012

Lusitania

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This well written history was quite a roller coaster ride! First I was totally bored, then heavyhearted and somber, and finally was left t...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

OMG: Obscene Mind Games

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The author sent me a copy of this short story to review: C.I. Masuda writes a palatable short story of what could happen if you choose t...