by ta | Aug 16, 2007 | Biography, Non-fiction
This is a very nice looking book with short essays by over sixty authors. They talk about where they write, how they get started and any talisman’s they like to have on hand when writing. My father was a supremely organized man. After he died, my three sisters...
by ta | Aug 13, 2007 | Fiction, Literary Fiction
“Those who have an orphan’s sense of history love history. And my voice has become that of an orphan. Perhaps it was the unknown life of my mother, her barely drawn portrait, that made me an archivist, a historian. Because if you do not plunder the past,...
by ta | Aug 8, 2007 | Book Awards
The following titles are on the longlist for the Booker Prize: Darkmans by Nicola Barker Self Help by Edward Docx The Gift Of Rain by Tan Twan Eng The Gathering by Anne Enright The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies Mister Pip...
by ta | Aug 7, 2007 | Fiction, Mystery
In Sansom’s second Mobile Library Mystery, we find our hero, Israel Armstrong, BA (Hons), in another ridiculous predicament. Our beloved underachiever has just finished his mobile-library-sponsored five-panel display on the history of the Dixon and...
by ta | Aug 2, 2007 | Non-fiction
I love to read book lists, best of lists or who’s reading what lists, so I was intrigued when I saw the following two books: The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them edited by Roxanne Coady and Joy...
