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The Surrounded (Zia Book), by D'Arcy McNickle
The Surrounded by D'Arcy McNickle There is so much to love about this novel and so much more to say. I will try to be brief in my comments :D'Arcy McNickle is half white and half Native American Indi...
 
- reviewed by sbarranca
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Featured on July 7th, 2008
 
 
Middle Passage, by Charles Johnson
I read Charles Johnso...
 
- reviewed by BLNicholas
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Featured on July 6th, 2008
 
 
The title of Alex Ross’ The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century is a play on Hamlet’s last words. “Rest” for the Prince of Denmark was “silence...
 
- reviewed by pcontino
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Featured on July 4th, 2008
 
 
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third installment of the Harry Potter series, and with this book Rowling's writing matures along with her characters. The first two novels were definat...
 
- reviewed by sbarranca
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Featured on July 2nd, 2008
 
 
The Lying Tongue, by Andrew Wilson
From Canongate in the UK, a larger paperback appeared last year, which looks like this: see left. However...
 
- reviewed by crimeficreader
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Featured on June 30th, 2008
 
 
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Reading this now. Our Latin American future canon. On the shelf with Garcia-Marquez. Anti-Magical Realism.
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I shelve this only to denounce it Total misrepresentation. Bah, humbug.
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Fantastic. The quintessential collection of Greek mythology stories. All very entertaining.
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After 20 years in Asia, an expat New Yorker poetically recounts the rare variety of experiences one finds in exotic locales.
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The China Lover, by Ian Burma
The one job qualification necessary for becoming celebrity is reinvention. Part this has to do with the reality and economics of the business: Marlon Brando had to audition for The Godfather because ...
reviewed by pcontino
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Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Many great minds throughout history have commented on the invisible war waged between the written word and technology. Kafka referred to the dawn of motion picture as the...
reviewed by BLNicholas
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American Wife , by Curtis Sittenfeld
It seemed like a good idea: a sexed-up, fictionalized autobiography of Laura Bush. For eight years the First Lady has been the "silent partner" in a White House that can boast that it changed the cou...
reviewed by pcontino
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The Ha-Ha, by Dave King
This is Dave King's debut fictional novel, and it is superb. It is centered around Howie, a Vietnam Vet. He became disabled in the war and has been trying to rebuild his life ever since. His disabi...
reviewed by sbarranca
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the novel that took this series to a whole new level. Not only is it more complicated, dramatic, and suspenseful than the first three, but it is also the found...
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