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Review: A Man of Parts by David Lodge
It’s a tribute to David Lodge’s writing skill that I found this novel absorbing and poignant even though I’ve never read anything by H.G. Wells and have no particular interest in him. As a biographical novel about a well-known ...
Book Trailer
Fancy Clapping Trailer
The book trailer for Fancy Clapping, Mark D. Dunn’s second collection of poetry, is oddly mesmerizing. Rather than offers a preview of Fancy Clapping’s lines or a description of what its readers might expect, the trailer is com...
Book Trailer
Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa? Trailer
With its pounding backbeat and fuzzy, x-ray style black and white graphics, the trailer for Andrez Bergen’s Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa? is not easy on the senses. And clocking in at almost seven minutes long—far l...
Book Lists
Summer Reading Special: A Bibliophile’s Miscellany of Italy
Although I’ve lived in the United Kingdom for eight years now, I’ve never made the (relatively) short jaunt over to Italy. But, like many of you, I feel I know the country’s cities and countryside through the media of film and ...
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Review: The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau
I read The Testing in a single sitting. It's that kind of book. I doubt it will get any nominations for the Pulitzer or the Printz, but that's not the point. If you're looking for a fast-paced, adrenaline-filled novel that cele...
Book Lists
A Bibliophile’s Miscellany: Titles That Promise Too Much
For some of my rules and preferences about book titles, see my related article this week, “What’s in a Name?” I’m wary of long and overcomplicated titles; all too often, I fear, they might be masking a book that actually has ve...
New Reads
What’s in a Name? Judging Books by their Titles
You’ve heard that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but what about judging books by their titles? Despite the perennial admonitions from good-natured and tolerant book-lovers, I daresay we all do it all the time: take on...
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A Bibliophile’s Miscellany: Epistolary Novels
Last week I wrote about the complementary lost arts of letter writing and handwriting. Literary correspondence, once such a venerable genre, just hasn’t been the same since the advent of e-mail and text messages. And yet the ep...
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Summer Reading Special: A Bibliophile’s Miscellany of France
July is the month when many countries celebrate their national day: it was Canada Day on the 1st, America’s birthday (of course) on the 4th, but also Algeria’s and Venezuela’s Independence Day celebrations on the 5th, Malawi’s ...
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I was a Pre-teen Book Nerd in the 90s
And, apparently, that meant loving books written ages before I was born, with a big emphasis on the 80s. I was a huge bookworm and had large, unfortunate glasses that kind of made me look like those cartoons of bookworms, which...
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Review: A Man of Parts by David Lodge
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Five Great Book Origin Stories
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Review: Divergent by Veronica Roth
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Banned Books Reading List
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The Little Book of Muses Trailer
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Dead Man’s Alibi Trailer
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Fancy Clapping Trailer
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Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa? Trailer
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Review: Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
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Summer Reading Special: Escapist Travel Books
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My Brother - Read a Kindle
