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Man of Mystery
Recognize the handsome guy at left? Neither did I. Then I read Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories, by Harry Lee Poe (a distant cousin of its subject). Turns out that...
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Review: How Sex Works, by Dr. Sharon Moalem
My review of this book is now online, over at The Book Book. Short version: Non-fiction, written by a neurogeneticist and evolutionary biologist. Based on fairly current research. Informative....
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Review: Stuart Neville’s The Twelve
My review of this new thriller is up, over at The Book Book. (Technically, it’s only newish; it came out in the UK several months ago. However, it’s slated for publication here in the US on October 1,...
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Book Review: Spook, by Mary Roach
I’ve just posted my latest review for The Book Book; it covers non-fiction author Mary Roach’s Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife. This was Roach’s second book. The first, Stiff, was about what...
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Book Review: Tender Morsels, by Margo Lanagan
Here’s how I imagine it must have gone: The woman went about her work calmly but with determination. Cupped in her hands before her, on the table, was a mysterious jewel; depending on the light in...
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Book Review: Who Hates Whom, by Bob Harris
My latest review is up at The Book Book. This time around, it’s a non-fiction title, Who Hates Whom. (Subtitle: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing Up: A Woefully...
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Book Review: Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
I’ve (finally!) posted my review of Nabokov’s Lolita, over at The Book Book. It certainly made for a discomfiting read, on some levels. Anyone with a niece or daughter, as young as the title character...
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Book Review: The City & The City, by China Miéville
My full review of this book is up, over at The Book Book. Part conventional murder mystery, part dark urban fantasy, The City & The City is constructed on a bizarre high concept which the author...
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Book Review: Children of God, by Mary Doria Russell
A few weeks ago I reviewed Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow at the Book Book review blog. I just posted a follow-up there, a review of The Sparrow‘s sequel, called Children of God. However, if you have...
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ADMIN (Sort of): Book Reviews on Goodreads
A few years ago, I posted a pretty good number of book reviews at a collaborative blog called The Book Book, curated by the blogger formerly (and probably forever) known as Moonrat. It was a pretty...
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