Tag: Book Review
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A brief history of mothers in fiction, Carrie Dunn
A brief history of mothers in fiction: The marvelous, the mean and everything in between by Carrie Dunn. Published by Crooked Rib publishing which is one woman, feminist Sian Norris who is based in Bristol. This collection began life as blog posts and if you want to critique, disagree or comment you can go to […]
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The Snowman, Jo Nesbø
From Goodreads: Oslo in November. The first snow of the season has fallen. A boy named Jonas wakes in the night to find his mother gone. Out his window, in the cold moonlight, he sees the snowman that inexplicably appeared in the yard earlier in the day. Around its neck is his mother’s pink scarf. […]
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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
I read Ready Player One on my phone as an eBook. I tweeted my progress through my @stillawake and temporary @Bristol52 accounts and now I’m writing the review on my phone. For my geeky finale, I can upload this post to my blog from wherever I am, as soon as it’s done. This used to […]
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Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Young white collar men around America are starting to fight in underground clubs. These fight clubs have rules and rule one is you don’t talk about Fight Club. Rule two is you don’t talk about Fight Club. There is in fact so much obfuscation in this book that by the time you get to the […]
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The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
The The Art of Fielding could have been great in the way of Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey or A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving; instead, Chad Harbach produced a good work of fiction with some glimpses of greatness about the eternal stride for perfection. Henry Skrimshander, newly arrived at college, […]
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Glenn Harrold – The Answer
Glenn Harrold has produced 36 self-hypnosis mp3s, a bunch of self-help books, music downloads, relaxation CDs and various DVDs. He is one of the most prolific writers and producers out there but he probably won’t sound too familiar, unless like me, you have experienced stress for which you required relaxation or a pregnancy for which […]
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Noah’s Compass, a review
Anne Tyler takes a slice of life and with the bare minimum of prose captures all its underlying tensions. Her stories are detailed glimpses of relationships and responsibilities. Noah’s Compass, published in 2009, is her eighteenth novel. Liam, the protagonist, is a high school history teacher who has just been made redundant. He lives alone […]
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Review for The Post-Birthday World for Suite101
Lionel Shriver’s eighth novel provides a glimpse of of a single event that can change your life and tracks both stories from that point on. This is a follow-up review to the slightly more vitriolic previous version published a few days ago. I was aiming for a little more balance this time and less anger. […]
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The Post-Birthday World, Review
A tale of parallel lives begins on the night when temptation comes into Irina’s life. In one universe, Irina gives in to an attraction with her partner Lawrence’s friend Ramsay, and in the other she resists. There is something alluring about an author providing an insight into what life would have been like had we […]
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The Imperfectionists, a review
Rome is the setting for some quirky characters and an English language newspaper around which eleven short stories are based. The book is the Imperfectionists and it is the first one by English born Tom Rachman. The author was raised in Vancouver and spent his professional life as a journalist. He was stationed in Rome […]
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