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Bookshots: 'Metamorphosis' by Nicholas Mosley
August 29th, 2014
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Metamorphosis
Read Review →Bookshots: 'Brainquake' by Samuel Fuller
August 28th, 2014
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Brainquake Who Wrote it? It’s a really shitty trip if it’s happening to you, but a boatload of fun if all you’re doing is watching. Legendary American expatriate filmmaker and novelist, Samuel Fuller Invent a new title for this book: The Big Pink
Read Review →Bookshots: 'F: A Novel' by Daniel Kehlmann
August 26th, 2014
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: F: A Novel Who Wrote it? A great book, stunningly written, but I wouldn’t recommend reading it if you are prone to melancholy. Daniel Kehlmann, author of best-selling German novel Measuring the World.
Read Review →Bookshots: 'Confessions' by Kanae Minato
August 18th, 2014
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Confessions Who wrote it? A shifting landscape of motivations, one in which the unsuspecting reader becomes morally complicit. Kanae Minato, a Japanese housewife turned bestselling mystery author. Plot in a box: A middleschool teacher takes revenge on the students responsible for the death of her daughter.
Read Review →Bookshots: 'The Trouble with Brunch' by Shawn Micallef
August 15th, 2014
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: The Trouble With Brunch Who wrote it? Changes in how we brunch say much about how life has changed for white collar workers over the last three decades. Shawn Micallef, columnist with the Toronto Star and author of Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto. I sense he may be Canadian.
Read Review →Bookshots: 'The Supernatural Enhancements' by Edgar Cantero
August 13th, 2014
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: The Supernatural Enhancements Who wrote it: I’m just going to go ahead and say that this was one of my favorite books to review so far this year. Edgar Cantero, Barcelonean writer and cartoonist. The Supernatural Enhancements is his first novel published in English.
Read Review →Bookshots: 'Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage' by Haruki Murakami
August 12th, 2014
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Read Review →Bookshots: 'We Are All Completely Fine' by Daryl Gregory
August 11th, 2014
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: We Are All Completely Fine Who wrote it? Something refreshing and unique — a short horror novel that is as much about relationships and people learning from one another as it is about the horrors that they are ultimately facing. Daryl Gregory, author of Pandemonium, The Devil's Alphabet, Afterparty and numerous short stories.
Read Review →Bookshots: 'The Big, Bad Book of Botany' by Michael Largo
August 6th, 2014
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: The Big, Bad Book of Botany: The World's Most Fascinating Flora Who wrote it? Michael Largo['s]... narrative voice is reminiscent of that nerdy science teacher who talked way too much about plant sex. Michael Largo, author of other list-y books like The Big, Bad Book of Beasts and Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die.
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