Friday, March 08, 2013

ANOTHER BULLSHIT NIGHT IN SUCK CITY by Nick Flynn (2004) W.W. Norton, 341 pages

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Not only is the title beguiling, but so is every story unfurled in this unabashedly direct memoir of a lost father and a...
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Tuesday, March 05, 2013

WAVE by Sonali Deraniyagala (2013) McClelland & Stewart, 228 pages

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Harrowing, heartbreaking and healing, Sonali Deraniyagala unflinchingly recounts her journey since the tsunami that deva...
Monday, March 04, 2013

THE DEMONOLOGIST by Andrew Pyper (2013) Simon and Schuster, 285 pages

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Pyper's finest yet, THE DEMONOLOGIST has a terrifying, taut, intelligent narrative featuring a Milton scholar who faces a...
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Sunday, March 03, 2013

3 Terrific 2012 novels: A LAND MORE KIND THAN HOME, SHINE SHINE SHINE, and WHERE'D YOU GO, BERNADETTE

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A LAND MORE KIND THAN HOME by Wiley Cash (Harper Collins) If you're a fan of Margaret Laurence's style, the...
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Monday, February 11, 2013

SPEAKING FROM AMONG THE BONES by Alan Bradley (2013), Doubleday Canada, 358 pages

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Precocious, amusing, chemistry genius 11-year-old Flavia de Luce returns to solve yet another mystery in this most be...
Wednesday, February 06, 2013

THE PAINTED GIRLS by Cathy Marie Buchanan (2013) Harper Collins Canada, 349 pages

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Set in late 19 th Century Paris, Cathy Marie Buchanan’s THE PAINTED GIRLS transports you to another time and place w...
Monday, February 04, 2013

Iraq War Novel Triple Crown: BILLY LYNN'S LONG HALFTIME WALK, THE YELLOW BIRDS, and FOBBIT

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On a recent trip to NYC, I stopped in at the Barnes & Noble on Fifth Avenue and picked up a copy of Ben Fountain’s ...