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Category Archives: Book Review
Book Review: Graveminder, by Melissa Marr
A couple of months ago, I was casting about for a new audiobook to listen to and it happened to be right as Goodreads was releasing its Readers Choice Awards for 2011. Melissa Marr’s novel Graveminder won Best Horror, so … Continue reading
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Tagged bad books, book reviews, books, Goodreads, Graveminder, horror, Melissa Marr, supernatural
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Book Review: 11/22/63 by Stephen King
At the end of 2011, I was surprised to see Stephen King’s latest book 11/22/63 on a number of “Best of the Year” lists. And not just best “Horror” or best “genre” type of lists – but honest-to-goodness “Best of … Continue reading
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Tagged 11/22/63, book review, John F Kennedy, King, Lee Harvey Oswald, science fiction, stephen king, Time travel
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Book Review: Zone One, by Colson Whitehead
Zombies are in. From AMC’s smash hit television series The Walking Dead, to the movie Zombieland (and the upcoming film version of Max Brooks’ World War Z), flesheaters are everywhere. In fact, they’re so much everywhere that I’ve started worrying … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, book reviews, books, Colson Whitehead, Walking Dead, Whitehead, world war z, Zombieland, zombies, Zone One
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Good For You Oates
During my interview with Kelly (which you should check out because it was really fun) and a recent conversation with Tom and Bookish, my affection for the books of Joyce Carol Oates came up. That made me realize that I … Continue reading
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Tagged blonde, Book, book review, book reviews, books, joyce carol oates, Marilyn Monroe, missing mom
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2011 Favorites: Books
I must admit that I am a sucker for “Year In Review” posts and articles. I enjoy reflecting on what’s happened and though I know a calendar year is a somewhat arbitrary unit, it still works out pretty well as … Continue reading
Mystery Bites
No, not the UFOs* in your Aunt Gladys’s jello mold. And not the artisanal** foie gras, goat cheese, truffle, water chestnut, actual chestnut and quinoa stuffing from Saveur magazine, but mystery-thrillers. You see for me, mysteries are the palate cleansers … Continue reading
Book Review: The Leftovers by Tom Perotta
Remember last spring when everyone was having a lot of fun at Harold Camping’s expense for predicting The Rapture? He was utterly sure that he and his followers were going to be assumed into heaven. I was thinking of Camping … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, book reviews, books, religion and society, society, the abstinence teacher, the leftovers, tom perrotta
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Books I Should Have Read A While Ago: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Remember way back like five or six years ago when you used to go to bookstores? Yeah, it was crazy. Well when I used to go, I’d browse curiously past the “staff recommends” section to see what was up there … Continue reading
Good Burger Books
You know sometimes when you’re out and you get a meal – say a burger – and it’s really very good, better than most burgers, in fact. But the problem is that it’s good enough to remind you of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aimee Bender, book review, book reviews, books, helen simonson, jane gardam, joshua ferris, major pettigrew's last stand, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: A Novel, Man in the Wooden Hat, old filth, the man in the wooden hat, the particular sadness of lemon cake, The Unnamed
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