The Shining Girls is a hard book to categorize, since it is about a serial killer who travel back in time. OK… I know some of you are already tuning out, but keep reading because this book is strangely compelling … Continue reading
Denis Lehane has written some great books, and some Like Gone, Baby, Gone or Shutter Island have become great movies as well, with great characters and much mystery and suspense. The Given Day, however, is a much broader historical story … Continue reading
River of Dust opens on the bare and desolate steppes of China, not long after the Boxer Rebellion where a small band of missionaries work with the Chinese peasants in this time of great social upheaval, suspicion and famine. The … Continue reading
In Night Circus you enter a place like no where you have ever imagined. Morgenstern creates a magical and elusive story that portrays a reality that seems not quite real and yet in its essence is profoundly true. Le Cirque … Continue reading
The Gods of Gotham is a police procedural set in 1845-just at the time when New York decides it needs a police force and the NYPD is born. Timothy Wilde, the main character, was a barman but when his bar … Continue reading
This book is a rich feast-a historical novel about a boy’s coming of age; rising from starving orphan to one of the most accomplished cooks of his age. Set in the 17th century against the backdrop of Cromwell and the … Continue reading
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Intrigue, mysterious portends, and revolution are all a part of the background to The Stockholm Octavo, set in 1791 Sweden. Emil Larsson our protagonist is a young bureaucrat in Office of Customs and Excise who spends his evenings drinking and gambling in various … Continue reading
There are quite a few people who relegate anything written by Stephen King as “horror” and therefore will not read it, which to my mind is a big mistake! 11/22/63 his most recent book couldn’t be farther from the horror … Continue reading
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