Amazon.com's Kindle Wireless E-book Reader - ReviewUpdated: Fri May 9 21:59:48 2008
Amazon's Kindle: The Future of Reading? Last week, Amazon.com released the e-book reader that they've had in the works for the past three years. It's called the Kindle, as in to kindle a fire, kind…
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 - Book ReviewCreated: Fri May 9 20:18:32 2008
The O. Henry Prize Stories series has an extensively proven track record (89 years) in the selection of terrific short prose, and the pieces in the 2008 volume uphold that reputation. In her choice…
Natural Acts : A Sidelong View of Science and Nature by David Quamme…Created: Fri May 9 20:13:24 2008
David Quammen has devoted his professional life to waxing poetic about the natural world. His essays in 'Outside,' 'National Geographic,' 'Harper's,' and elsewhere have ranged in topic from crow en…
Contemporary LiteratureUpdated: Fri May 9 17:48:11 2008
Book reviews of newly released literature. We review recently released books in a variety of genres. Contemporary Literature book reviews, historical fiction book reviews, science fiction and fant…
Stephen KingUpdated: Wed May 7 15:08:20 2008
Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947. He made his first professional short story sale in 1967 to Startling Mystery Stories. In the spring of 1973, Doubleday & Co. accepted the novel…
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle - Book ReviewUpdated: Mon May 5 15:48:27 2008
Spiritual teacher and author Eckhart Tolle ("The Power of Now") advocates present moment awareness and the dismantling of the ego as the path towards awakened living. "A New Earth&qu…
Michael ChabonUpdated: Thu May 1 17:08:17 2008
Michael Chabon's recent work includes 'The Final Solution,' a mystery novella paying homage to Arthur Conan Doyle about an aging British detective during the end of World War II (clearly Sherlock H…
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Book ReviewUpdated: Thu May 1 17:04:31 2008
"The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" (2000) won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, was nominated for numerous other literary awards, and is widely considered to be Michael Chab…
The Final Solution: A Story of Detection by Michael ChabonUpdated: Thu May 1 17:02:13 2008
In The Final Solution, Michael Chabon has condensed his vision to create a short, suspenseful tale of compassion and wit that re-imagines the classic detective story. In retirement in the English c…
Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon - Book ReviewUpdated: Thu May 1 17:00:03 2008
Originally titled Jews with Swords, Michael Chabon's Gentlemen of the Road is a slender novel full of history and the flowery language of historical writing. It is also full of wonderful illustrati…
Maps and Legends by Michael Chabon - Book ReviewUpdated: Thu May 1 16:58:24 2008
'Maps and Legends' is Michael Chabon's first book of nonfiction, 16 essays in which the author celebrates genre fiction by wandering academically through the detective stories of Arthur Conan Doyle…
Hot Books in 2008Updated: Fri Apr 25 14:31:27 2008
It's early yet, but lets have a look at the goodies that 2008 has brought us thus far!…
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri - Book ReviewCreated: Wed Apr 23 04:41:02 2008
Jhumpa Lahiri's second collection of short stories, "Unaccustomed Earth," finds her at the rising peak of her literary powers. These stories are longer (nearly novella length in some case…
Hold Tight by Harlan CobenUpdated: Fri Apr 18 03:16:57 2008
If there was ever a novel that called for a sociological flow chart, 'Hold Tight,' a community murder mystery, is it. Harlan Coben has constructed a yarn with multiple points of view - a patchwork…
Now You See Him by Eli Gottlieb - Book ReviewUpdated: Fri Apr 18 02:26:05 2008
Nick Framingham is an average, small-town guy and best friends with the infamous Rob Castor. Rob achieved celebrity status in his twenties, "for writing a book of darkly pitch-perfect stories …
Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong - Book ReviewCreated: Thu Apr 17 23:34:45 2008
In November of 2007, 'Wolf Totem' by Jiang Rong, won the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize. The prize is intended to bring exciting new Asian authors to the attention of the world literary communi…
2007's Top Ten BooksUpdated: Thu Apr 17 20:17:48 2008
Tis the season of the list. Here's ours for the top ten books of the year!…
Stream of ConsciousnessUpdated: Thu Apr 17 04:41:24 2008
Stream of consciousness is a narrative technique in which the the writer renders a flow of associated thoughts and feelings giving the impression of one's consciousness as it streams through ideas …
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama by Pi…Updated: Mon Apr 14 03:15:11 2008
Pico Iyer, one of the most acclaimed and perceptive observers of globalism and Buddhism, gives us the first serious consideration—for Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike—of the Fourteenth Dal…
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