A Novel? Padgett Powell’s Book Defies Genre : NPR: The question mark that accompanies the subtitle of author Padgett Powell’s new book, The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? might seem flippant. But Powell’s book earns that bit of punctuation. The Interrogative Mood is composed entirely of questions. Some of them are laugh out loud funny, some […]
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Books – Sherlock Holmes, Shapeshifter – Robert Downey Jr.’s Version – NYTimes.com: Arthur Conan Doyle grew so to hate his greatest creation, Sherlock Holmes, that in 1893 he tried to kill him off, plunging him over the Reichenbach Falls. He called it ‘justifiable homicide,’ saying, ‘If I had not killed him, he would certainly have
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Best Short Stories | In Photos | csmonitor.com: In a clever twist on the usual “best books” list, The Christian Science Monitor presents a slideshow of book covers for its 8 choices of best short story collections of 2008.
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Schwartz, Lynne Sharon. Disturbances in the Field New York: Counterpoint, 1983 ISBN 1-58243-332-1 Highly Recommended We hear a lot about nutritionally dense foods these days. Foods that are nutritionally dense provide high nutritional value in proportion to the calories they contain; they are the opposite of junk food, which delivers high calories with
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In ‘Bright Shiny Morning,’ James Frey Presents Little Pieces of Los Angeles in His Way – New York Times New York Times reviewer Janet Maslin writes about James Frey’s new novel: He got a second act. He got another chance. Look what he did with it. He stepped up to the plate and hit one
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O’Farrell, Maggie. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox New York: Harcourt, 2006 ISBN 978-0-15-101411-8 Blackstone Audiobooks, narrated by Anne Flosnik Recommended This novel is about family stories–in this case, the truths that don’t get told and the lies that spring up to fill the void–and how those stories reverberate through generations. Iris Lockhart
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This is from The Writer’s Almanac, which is produced by Prairie Home Productions and presented by American Public Media: It’s the birthday of (Nelle) Harper Lee, (books by this author) the author of To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), born in Monroeville, Alabama (1926), the daughter of a local newspaper editor and lawyer. She was a
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Grafton, Sue. “T” Is for Trespass (2007)New York: Putnam, 400 pages ISBN: 0399154485Random House Audio, narrated by Judy Kaye Recommended Starting a new Sue Grafton novel always means getting reacclimatized to Kinsey’s world. For Kinsey (lucky woman), time is not passing nearly as quickly as it is for her readers. At the beginning of
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Coben, Harlan. Hold Tight (2008) Dutton, 321 pages, $26.95 hardcover ISBN-10: 0525950605 ISBN-13: 978-0525950608. Recommended When Mike and Tia Baye install a spy program on their son Adam’s computer, they have no idea what they’re getting themselves into. All they know is that 16-year-old Adam has become increasingly more withdrawn and sullen over the past
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Card, Orson Scott. Lost Boys New York: HarperCollins, 1992 ISBN 0-06-109131-6 Audiobook by Blackstone Audio Recommended This is the story of the Fletcher family: Step (Stephen) and his pregnant wife, DeAnne, and their children–Stevie, age 8; Robbie, 4; and Elizabeth, 2. It’s 1983, and the family is relocating from Indiana to Steuben,
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