Friday, October 26, 2012

RAILSEA

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In 1851 Herman Melville published Moby Dick , and in 2012 China Mieville published the remake. Well, sort of. Actually, the only thing i...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

DEATH IN THE CLOUDS

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A hodgepodge group of people board a flight from Paris to Croydon, and before they land, one turns up dead! Luckily, one of the passengers...
Sunday, October 7, 2012

GRANT'S FINAL VICTORY

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This is the seventh non-fiction book that I've read concerning U.S. presidents in the last year, and it ranks right up there with book...
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This is a brilliant and complex work of art by Mikhail Bulgakov written in 1930s Russia and unpublished until 1966, 26 years after the aut...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...