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Rhona Scoville heartily recommends Michael Graham's wintery police procedural novel as a great way to pass the time during the holiday season. Eggnog and true crime, nothing could be finer.
SNOW ANGEL: A NOVEL BY MICHAEL GRAHAM Schaffner Press A good way to pass the holiday season is to take some time to read Michael Graham’s police procedural, The Snow Angel. Based on a true, heart-breaking story, Graham plows past the sensitivity of political correctness with a straightforward, no-nonsense ...
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James Michener's first posthumous publication is revived after thirty years of sleeping with the fishes. Rosalie Petralia grinds it up for chum.
MATECUMBE: THE LOST FLORIDA NOVEL BY JAMES A. MICHENER University Press of Florida Outed by one-time Michener ghostwriter Joe Avenick thirty years after its creation, Matecumbe works best as wrapping for its horrible story. This dead fish sure stinks once it hits air, and leaves me wondering why the ...
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Matt Kindt's new graphic novel recaptures the shadowy espionage of World War II. Carl F Gauze knows thirteen ways to kill you if you happen to glance at him talking into his shoe.
SUPER SPY BY MATT KINDT Top Shelf Productions It's time for a spy novel revival. Stock airplane reading material for decades, the genre collapsed when the Soviets fell, and face it - what good is a spy novel without a superpower villain? Today's suicide bombers are too blunt to make for good reading ...
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Carl F Gauze finds that this new graphic novel is more than just the story of a boy and his farm - it's a gritty look at the isolation, boredom and human cost of living off the land.
TALES FROM THE FARM - ESSEX COUNTY VOL. 1 BY JEFF LEMIRE Top Shelf Productions I grew up around farms, and this quirky little graphic novel captures that sense of openness and isolation. Young Lester was orphaned and now lives with his bachelor-farmer Uncle Ken in the flat middle of the Canadian Prairie ...
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Manil Suri's debut novel, The Death of Vishnu explores the facts and foibles of class struggles and the quest for spiritual enlightenment through the eyes of a dying apartment building handyman. Terry Eagan explores the rich and unusual novel.
THE DEATH OF VISHNU BY MANIL SURI Norton Manil Suri's first novel, The Death of Vishnu, is an interesting and captivating novel that combines the rich elements of Bollywood and Hindu mythology with a narrative worthy of Dickens. Sometimes the novel is very funny in its exploration of social airs ...
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Would the human race be better off without the urge to procreate -- or at least, to get busy? That's the theme explored in Michel Houellebecq's latest novel, The Elementary Particles. Terry Eagan explores the novel and its core philosophy.
... the purpose or nonsense that governs our lives, and in the process, they attempt to wrest meaning out from the chaos of life. In this, his second novel, Michel Houellebecq follows in the fine French tradition of questioning the fundamental themes that polite, civilized society uses to define and circumscribe ...
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Part detective novel, part reflection on the nature of art and love, Haruki Murakami's Sputnik Sweetheart follows aspiring novelist Sumire on her quest for both. Terry Eagan reviews the gripping and thoughtful novel.
... Only a few pages into Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami touches on a theme that he will return to again and again in this powerful and evocative novel. Comprised of several overlapping themes or ideas, it is in part a detective novel, in part a meditation on the nature of love and longing, and finally ...
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Drugs, high diving, and the Civil War. What more do you want from a novel? James Mann looks at Elmore Leonard's 37th novel, Tishomingo Blues.
TISHOMINGO BLUES BY ELMORE LEONARD William Morrow & Co. Elmore Leonard's 37th novel is another example of why he's one of the more distinctive and well-regarded novelists working today. Snappy dialogue, intriguing (from a distance, that is) characters, and an engrossing storyline are hallmarks of ...
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What makes Juan de Recacoechea's novel, American Visa the "best-selling novel in Bolivian history?" Brittany Sturges gathered all the evidence to solve the mystery.
... his dreams crushed in the end by the law. American Visa was translated into English in 2007; according to Akashic Books, it’s the “best-selling novel in Bolivian history.” For a translated novel, it reads extremely well—m ore so than some books written originally in English. The story reads ...
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The League of Tomorrow (Evo Recordings). Review by Carl F Gauze.
... Have we not yet beaten the superhero thing to death? Here's another rock and roll album with "league" in the title, this one based on a graphic novel by lead singer Paul McGuire. The story is a bit hard to follow, but the cartooning is pretty decent. The story's protagonist seems to have sold his soul ...
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