Tag: books
member name: Jesse BC
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November 28, 2006 05:06 AM EST --
After Oprah’s selection for her summer book club and subsequent proliferation and price-gouging on bookstore shelves, America has become reacquainted with John Steinbeck’s East of Eden (Viking . . . more
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August 25, 2007 12:11 AM EDT --
Joanne Rowling’s fans give her way too much credit – and not nearly enough.
The British billionaire (the first novelist in history to make that kind of money from writing) scarcely needs introduction . . . more
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April 18, 2007 05:48 AM EDT --
My picks for the best of 2005
10) Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (Harper Perennial, 2002)
This novel about Latin American revolutionaries who take hostages during a party for the Japanese Prime . . . more
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January 30, 2007 11:33 PM EST --
After we read Ralph Waldo Emerson in class, I wrote "My Philosophy of Life," which I intended for the start of a book but could only get three pages out of it. Mrs. Henry said I needed to live . . . more
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February 22, 2007 03:12 PM EST --
The snake has at last swallowed its own tail and postmodern fiction has found a defining moment. Literature found postmodernism in 1961 with Thomas Pynchon’s novel, V, and is characterized . . . more
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June 27, 2007 02:44 PM EDT --
My best picks for 2006
9) Punk Marketing: Get Off Your Ass and Join the Revolution by Richard Laermer and Mark Simmons (Collins, anticipated publication March 2007)
Half how-to manual, half radical . . . more
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December 22, 2006 03:27 PM EST --
If you're American, you may have a little trouble finding it. Thus far, the publisher has only distributed it in London and Sydney. You might have to contact the publisher directly or check the international . . . more
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December 20, 2006 09:53 PM EST --
When is a romance novel not a romance novel?
When it's a gothic suspense thriller fairy tale romance novel, such as Daphne duMaurier's Rebecca (Victor Gollancz, 1938, republished by Avon in 1971). . . . more
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January 28, 2007 08:50 PM EST --
Have you ever tried a tea that sounded particularly tasty from its ingredients? You find a box of apple cinnamon nutmeg tea and you think, “Great! I love all three! And together, they’ll taste . . . more
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February 12, 2007 08:25 AM EST --
Ok, so it’s genre fiction. But, all things considered, it’s pretty good genre fiction. Forrest DeVoe, Jr. is no John LeCarre, but (thank God) he’s no Harlan Coben either. . . . more
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December 27, 2006 01:43 AM EST --
In light of current American and British foreign policy concerns, the history of Western imperialism is becoming increasingly important to understand. America aspires to a sort of neo-colonialism in the . . . more
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December 29, 2006 02:24 AM EST --
Nor stranger seem’d that hearts
So gentle, so employ’d, should close in love
Than when two dewdrops on the petal shake
To the same sweet air, and tremble deeper down
And slip at once, all fragrant, . . . more
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February 02, 2007 06:40 PM EST --
After the 1938 success of Daphne duMaurier’s Rebecca (Victor Gollancz, 1938, republished by Avon in 1971), adaptations quickly followed of this dark tale of jealousy and innocence, murder and obssession. . . . more
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February 17, 2007 09:07 AM EST --
Lucinda Trout calls her latest assignment “A Year in Provence meets Lake Wobegon Days." Her acerbic, gramatically-challenged boss calls it “Girl, Interrupted meets Deliverance." . . . more
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March 19, 2007 04:59 AM EDT --
Holding a doctorate in biology, Barbara Ehrenreich must surely know the value of a failed experiment. Even those in which the most basic conditions go awry can still yield valuable information. . . . more
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February 05, 2007 05:23 AM EST --
The trouble with reviewing a book like Bridgett M. Davis’ Shifting Through Neutral (HarperCollins 2004) is that Davis’ first novel contains such elegance and subtlety that any attempt to analyze . . . more
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May 02, 2007 12:07 AM EDT --
Strapped: Why America’s 20- and 30-Somethings Can’t Get Ahead (written by Tamara Draut and published by Doubleday in February 2006) is the book that Gen Xers everywhere will want to staple to . . . more
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January 02, 2007 04:45 AM EST --
In the 156 years since its publication, Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre has been a source of controversy – first, over its suitability for and, later, its portrayal of women. When it first emerged . . . more
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January 24, 2007 07:38 AM EST --
Books abound that are written for children but enjoyed by adults. Roald Dahl. EL Konigsburg. JK Rowling. But Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred (Beacon Press, 1979) is historical science fiction written . . . more
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February 22, 2008 09:42 PM EST --
My best picks for 2007
11) Live from Cape Canaveral: Covering the Space Race from Sputnik to Today by Jay Barbree (HarperCollins, 2007)
Released to coincide with the 50th anniversary . . . more
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