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It’s almost the best day of the year! Halloween, of course. And while we’re usually thinking about running away from scary creatures and frightening monsters, there’s another way of looking at it: here’s a short list of self-help books for the undead in your life, from USA Today. The Vampire Is Just Not That [...] Review of: The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway Riverhead Books (2008), Paperback, 235 pages Khaled Hosseini’s (author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns) describes this book as transcendental, and that praise is well-deserved. Much in the same way that Hosseini’s books took me to a landscape I could never have [...] Every time I swear I’m going to leave Twilight alone, I just can’t resist going back in and taking another poke at it. And is that so wrong? This is why I read it, after all, to be able to mock it mercilessly. (And of course, like the bloggers at AbeBooks, when I say [...] It’s a little late for Banned Books Week 2009, but I’m passing this along from The Book Bench: The photographer, a German, was inspired to create this sign by America’s Banned Books Week, which he calls a “great celebration.” The photo is accompanied by the immortal words of Ben Franklin: “Whoever would overthrow [...] Review of: Apples & Oranges: My brother and me, lost and found by Marie Brenner Picador (2009), Edition: Reprint, Paperback, 304 pages Marie Brenner is, irrefutably, several things. She is a talented journalist, for sure. Her story on tobacco insider Jeffrey Wigand, “The Man Who Knew Too Much”, inspired the 1999 movie “The Insider”. [...] My hometown of Amherst, NY (a suburb of Buffalo) has had a deer overpopulation problem for years, as have many cities and towns in the Northeast. As open spaces have been developed, the deer, their numbers still growing, cause numerous roadway accidents. All sorts of solutions to this problem have been suggested, some of [...] This contest has as many winners as want the prize! Author Chris Tusa is offering free e-book copies of his new novel, Dirty Little Angels, to anyone who agrees to leave a review of the book on Amazon.com. Set in the slums of New Orleans, among clusters of crack houses and abandoned buildings, Dirty [...] Review of: Indignation by Philip Roth Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2008), Hardcover, 233 pages Author Philip Roth stated, in a recent interview, that he began this book with an intention to write about the period, about the 50s and the Korean War, a time in our history he himself experienced. On this level, I felt [...] |
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