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Bookshots: ‘The Skeleton Road’ by Val McDermid
December 2nd, 2014
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: The Skeleton Road Who wrote it? Val McDermid, whose Tony Hill series has been very popular, even becoming a TV series, and won her the Crime Writer’s Association Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year. McDermid describes her work as ‘Tartan Noir’ - the Scottish crime fiction genre
Read Review →Bookshots: 'Watch' by Cass J. McMain
December 1st, 2014
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Watch Who wrote it: Albuquerque born Cass McMain, a former greenhouse manager and author of the novel Sunflower.
Read Review →Bookshots: 'No Mercy' by Eleanor Learmonth and Jenny Tabakoff
December 1st, 2014
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: No Mercy – True Stories of Disaster, Survival and Brutality
Read Review →Making Sense of Brainiac Steven Pinker's New Book on Writing
November 24th, 2014
It’s not news that I love grammar, so it shouldn’t surprise any of you that I totally freaked out when I learned that author/experimental psychologist/cognitive scientist/linguist Steven Pinker had a new book about writing. Frankly, I had only read snippets of Steven Pinker’s other well-known books—The Stuff of Thought and The Blank Slate—and was only just a little familiar with his style of writing and subject matter. What got me all hot and bothered was the title!
Read Review →Bookshots: "Asura Girl" by Otaro Maijo
November 18th, 2014
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Asura Girl Who Wrote It? Award-winning Japanese novelist and illustrator Otaro Maijo. Asura Girl won the Mishima Yukio Prize in 2003. It was translated by Stephen Snyder.
Read Review →Bookshots: 'The Annotated Mixtape' by Joshua Harmon
November 11th, 2014
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: The Annotated Mixtape
Read Review →Bookshots: 'The End of Days' by Jenny Erpenbeck
November 10th, 2014
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: The End of Days Who wrote it? I got very lucky with this book. I could have picked a different book to review, and maybe that review would have somehow led to my death. Jenny Erpenbeck, an award-winning German author (translation by Susan Bernofsky)
Read Review →Bookshots: 'The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure' edited by C.D. Rose
November 6th, 2014
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure Who wrote it: Focus too much on the rules...and these are the consequences. Failure. Of the most spectacular kind. Depends on how you look at it. Maybe these writers wrote their own stories. Or maybe the writers don't exist at all. Either way, editor C.D. Rose is responsible for cobbling together the entries.
Read Review →Bookshots: 'Treat Us Like Dogs and We Will Become Wolves' by Carolyn Chute
November 5th, 2014
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Treat Us Like Dogs and We Will Become Wolves Who wrote it? Perhaps best known for her first novel, The Beans of Egypt Maine (which was made into a movie), Carolyn Chute is an author and political activist known for her passionate defense of the right to bear arms set out in the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution.
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