Showing posts with label Book Reviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book Reviews. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

A Universal History of Iniquity by Jorge Luis Borges

›
Borges  via Reviewed by Susanna Allred Published : 1935 It's about : Borges appropriates and tweeks lives of historical criminal...
Sunday, June 30, 2013

Suttree by Cormac McCarthy

›
  via  Reviewed by Susanna Allred Published : 1979 It's about : Cornelius Suttree, known to friends and his estranged family a...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Review: The Social Animal by David Brooks

›
via Reviewed by Christine-Chioma Published : 2011 It's about : David Brooks uses fictional characters to explore "how succ...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

›
Memorial to victims of 1968 Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, via  Reviewed by Susanna Allred Published : English translation, 19...
Saturday, May 18, 2013

If on a winter's night a traveler bY Italo Calvino

›
via Reviewed by Susanna Allred Published :1979 in Italian, 1981 in English It's about : If on a winter's night a traveler...
Saturday, May 11, 2013

The Diary of Napoleonic Foot Soldier by Jakob Walter

›
In 1812, by Illarion Pryashnikov, via Reviewed by Susanna Allred Published : 1991 It's about : The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot ...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

The Last Man by Mary Shelley

›
  Mary Shelley, via Reviewed by Susanna Published : 1826 It's about : The year is 2096. In the past few decades, England has ...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Review: Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar

›
Julio Cortazar, via Reviewed by Susanna Published : 1963 in Spanish, translated into English in 1966 It's about : Horacio O...
Monday, April 1, 2013

Review: Eight Pieces of Empire by Lawrence Scott Sheets

›
Chechen rebels in Grozny, 1995. ( via) Reviewed by Christina [I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher in excha...
Monday, March 11, 2013

Review: Where Things Come Back

›
Arkansas town, via Reviewed by Christina Published : 2011 It's about :  Seventeen-year-old Cullen Witter is having an eventful S...
Monday, March 4, 2013

The Other Side of Normal by Jordan Smoller

›
via Reviewed by Christina I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Full Titl...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Review: Moloka'i by Alan Brennert

›
Bishop Home, via Reviewed by Christina Published : 2003 It's about :  Rachel Kalama is a happy seven-year-old girl living in Hon...
Thursday, February 14, 2013

Review: The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love by Jill Conner Browne

›
The Sweet Potato Queens, via Reviewed by Christina Published : 1999 It's about :  "To know the Sweet Potato Queens is to lo...
Sunday, February 3, 2013

Review: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg

›
Chestnut Lodge, the institution where INPYaRG was unofficially set Reviewed by Christina Published : 1964 It's about :  " I...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Review: Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

›
photograph of the author  via Reviewed by Christine-Chioma Published : 1987 It's about : The book follows the lives of two mar...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Guest Review: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

›
Family in Cartagena, Colombia, c. 1930, via Reviewed by Arminda! Combine a dash of determination with a twist of opinionated, a heaping...