Here in the past six months or so I had the pleasure of doing some special book reviews for a few gifted readers and even though my time their ended rather abruptly I really enjoyed the time spent reviewing and sharing my thoughts. So here is the deal I would like to put up a [...]
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Possible Idea.. (Book Review Site)
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged Book Review Site, Possible Idea, Reviewers on June 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Book Review: The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged Fiction, Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club, Victorian Suspense on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Book Description, Talk about high concept: in Pearl’s debut novel, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes and James Russell Lowell team up with 19th-century publisher J.T. Fields to catch a serial killer in post-Civil War Boston. It’s the fall of 1865, and Harvard University, the cradle of Bostonian intellectual life, is overrun by sanctimonious scholars [...]
BTT: A Second First Time.
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged Booking Through Thursday, Favorite Books, Second First Time on May 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
What book would you want to be able to read again for the first time? This was a very interesting question I saw from actually a few blogs that got me thinking. As I start rattling off the mounds of stories and books that I have gone through in the past. There are a mere [...]
Review: Turn Coat by Jim Butcher
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged Fantasy, Harry Dresden, Jim Butcher on May 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Butcher’s series star, wizard detective Harry Dresden, has been facing ever more varied and dangerous trials. Once just Chicago’s only wizard PI, Harry is now a warden of the White Council of Wizards—that is, one of the enforcers of its rules—and it seems as though every time he gets a better grasp on his magical [...]
