by ta | Oct 8, 2008 | Adventure Classics, Fiction
If you are in the area Hannah Tinti will be reading and signing The Good Thief on Sunday, October 26 at 2pm. The accolades for this book are so glowing and so many. Hannah Tinti has created a world at once familier and strange. Other reviewers have justifiably...
by ta | Oct 7, 2008 | Fiction
The Little Book is the extraordinary tale of Wheeler Burden, California-exiled heir of the famous Boston banking Burdens, philosopher, student of history, legend’s son, rock idol, writer, lover of women, recluse, half-Jew, and Harvard baseball hero. In 1988 he is...
by ta | Sep 15, 2008 | Fiction
I am so sad – stunned. It reminds us all of how fragile we are and how close at hand the darkness is,” – A.M. Holmes David Foster Wallace, whose prodigiously observant, exuberantly plotted, grammatically and etymologically challenging,...
by ta | Sep 5, 2008 | Fiction
Andrew Davidson’s book is a series of balancing acts. His characters represent extremes and his stories come very close to being over-the-top, but somehow he manages to maintain the balance just when you are ready to give up on him. Once beautiful, the narrator...
by radguru | Sep 4, 2008 | Fiction
This is a work of historical fiction about two unlikely characters that meet during the seige of Leningrad in World War II. One is a young Jewish boy who had the misfortune of being the last one over the wall after he and his friends happened upon a dead paratrooper...
by ta | Aug 25, 2008 | Fiction, Guest Blogger Review
For those of you who thought we had given up on our Guest Blogger Reviews, Iliana (aka Bookgirl) has kindly agreed to get us back on track. Iliana is clearly someone who has an eye for beautiful things, whether it’s her blog banner or her handmade books, she has...
