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Bookshots: "Horrorstor" by Grady Hendrix
September 23rd, 2014
Title: Horrorstör Who wrote it? Grady Hendrix, multi-published author of books and stories like Dead Leprechauns & Devil Cats: Strange Tales of the White Street Society (which, incidentally, just leaped onto my To Read list based on the title alone).
Read Review →Bookshots: 'Love Me Back' By Merritt Tierce
September 17th, 2014
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Love Me Back Who wrote it? 'Love Me Back' should be a tale of heartbreak and inevitable redemption, but thankfully Tierce realizes there’s no such thing as atonement, there’s only the next shift. Meta Rosenberg Fellow and National Book Foundation ‘5 Under 35’ honoree, Merritt Tierce.
Read Review →Bookshots: 'The Anatomy of Dreams' by Chloe Benjamin
September 16th, 2014
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: The Anatomy of Dreams Who wrote it: This coming of age narrative is already one of uncertainty, questions, and discovery. By placing it against the backdrop of a dream world, the reader gets double the tension. Chloe Krug Benjamin
Read Review →Bookshots: 'Broken Monsters' by Lauren Beukes
September 16th, 2014
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Broken Monsters Who wrote it? This is proper horror, with the requisite amount of killings, and this is proper crime, with clues and red herrings and scumbag journalists trying to get rich on YouTube. Lauren Beukes, South African writer and author of The Shining Girls, a time-traveling serial killer story that did excellent business last year.
Read Review →Bookshots: 'Stone Mattress' by Margaret Atwood
September 15th, 2014
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Stone Mattress
Read Review →Bookshots: 'The Bone Clocks' by David Mitchell
September 10th, 2014
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: The Bone Clocks Who wrote it? Stylistic chameleon David Mitchell, author of the stylistic chameleon, Cloud Atlas.
Read Review →Bookshots: 'Perfidia' by James Ellroy
September 9th, 2014
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Perfidia Who wrote it? Ellroy reintroduces characters from his previous novels—some major, some blink-and-you'll-miss-them minor—and mixes them all together, in a low-down dirty gumbo. James fucking Ellroy, author of badass books like The Black Dahlia, LA Confidential, American Tabloid, and Blood's A Rover.
Read Review →Bookshots: 'The Children Act' by Ian McEwan
September 8th, 2014
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: The Children Act Who wrote it? The inner cynic in me can’t help but think that a good-looking seventeen year old boy pining for a woman old enough to be his Grandma is just a teeny bit dubious. Ian McEwan, the Booker-Prize winning author who has been called "one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945."
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