by bertbaby | Jul 7, 2014 | Book Reviews
This translation from Italian of Andrea Canobbio’s delicate, mature romance between two doctors (and longtime friends) who fall in love despite impossible circumstances sails on delicate, entrancing prose. Call it an episode of Gray’s Anatomy directed by...
by bertbaby | Jul 7, 2014 | Book Reviews
And now for something completely different: the next tale in Charles Stross’ acclaimed Laundry Files series (in which a covert office protects Britain from paranormal danger) finds the team battling zombie leeches that have inhabited the staff of a local bank....
by bertbaby | Jul 7, 2014 | Book Reviews
Once upon a time, the creator of “The Ugly Duckling” and “The Princess and the Pea” came of age in Denmark before changing Europe and soon the world with his wondrous and elaborate fairy tales. Paul Binding here tells us a story of spritely...
by bertbaby | Jul 7, 2014 | Book Reviews
July 7: On this day in 1703 Daniel Defoe was sentenced to the pillory for having written The Shortest Way with Dissenters.
by bertbaby | Jul 6, 2014 | Book Reviews
July 6: William Faulkner died on this day in 1962.
by bertbaby | Jul 5, 2014 | Book Reviews
July 5: Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica, often described as the single most influential book in the history of science, was published on this day in 1687.
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