by bertbaby | Mar 11, 2014 | Book Reviews
March 11: “He was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men…”
by bertbaby | Mar 10, 2014 | Book Reviews
Ancient stories entwine with twenty-first-century themes in Helen Oyeyemi’s fiction.
by bertbaby | Mar 10, 2014 | Book Reviews
Andy Weir’s stirring paean to the will to survive finds a castaway on the Red Planet, as astronaut Mark Watney outdoes Jules Verne, Tom Swift and George Clooney in his quest to live and even flourish in this forbidding environment.
by bertbaby | Mar 10, 2014 | Book Reviews
From its Chandleresque title right through its knockout climax, John Straley’s Depression-era noir provides hot and heavy, morally complicated thrills as it tosses a male drifter and female murderer together on a bumpy ride across the American Northwest.
by bertbaby | Mar 10, 2014 | Book Reviews
American reinvention meets African revolution in the tale of a friendship and its aftermath.
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