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12/10/2021

Book Review - Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Someone is killing little girls in Wind Gap, Missouri. Hoping to scoop the bigger newspapers, an editor at the Chicago Daily Post sends reporter Camille Preaker to the tiny town to cover the story. Wind Gap just happens to be Camille's hometown, the very place she left the first chance she got and n...

10/10/2021

Book review: “The Kitchen Counter Cooking School”

Book review: “The Kitchen Counter Cooking School” by Kathleen Flinn

08/10/2021

BOOK REVIEW ON JEFFREY EUGENIDES

06/10/2021

Fiction Book Review

Although it follows his L.A. Trilogy chronologically, Ellroy's visceral, tightly plotted new novel unfolds on a much wider stage, delivering a compelling and detailed view of the American underworld f

04/10/2021

Review: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

Freelance writer and book blogger at The Literary Edit, Lucy Pearson reviews Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel.

02/10/2021

Book Review: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

I can’t truly appreciate Octavia E. Butler, without reading her friend and mentor, Harlan Ellison.

30/09/2021

Book Review: Woman At Point Zero By Nawal El Saadawi

Woman At Point Zero written by Nawal El Saadawi is the story of Firdaus. Firdaus. That name will stick with you long after you’ve turned the last page of the book. Firdaus herself tells us her story from the floor of her jail cell in Cairo as she awaits ex*****on the following day for murder no le...

30/09/2021

What Is the What - New York Magazine Book Review

D ave Eggers’s new novel is best introduced with a list of what it does not contain. There are no charts, no pages left intentionally blank, no cartwheeling paragraphs that stand out for their high concentration of whimsical exclamation point [...]

30/09/2021

Book Review: The Worst Hard Time

Developing strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies.

30/09/2021

Book Review: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The hook couldn’t be more obvious. When a string of strange deaths plagues a wealthy Italian abbey, Brother William of Baskerville is…

30/09/2021

Book Review: The Wisdom of Psychopaths

The spectrum of psychopaths includes CEOs, surgeons and journalists, and we could learn something from many of them. Michael Shermer reviews Kevin Dutton's "The Wisdom of Psychopaths."

30/09/2021

This Creepy Urban Legend Bears A Strong Resemblance To A Horror Short Story From 1971

It's almost Halloween, so let's take a closer look at the ways in which one very spooky folktale from the 18th-century American Midwest might have influenced the title story of an English writer's 1971 fiction collection. I interpret "Don't Look…