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This is going to be a little different than my usual reviews, largely because Sunborn Rising is a book I did not finish… Generally speaking, if I can’t get into the book enough to keep reading, I decline to review it. I am contacted by surprising number of authors and publishers and publicists; most of […]
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Reading makes you live longer. This is no great surprise to me, but apparently it was to many other people (like The Husband)… Fortunately, a new study, reported in The Washington Post the other day, confirmed it. “A recent study by Yale University researchers, published online in the journal Social Science & Medicine, […] So I think I’m going to make this a regular feature, since I’ve been finding so many memorable quotes in the books I’m reading lately… They’re not always (or, so far, even often) reflective of where I am or what’s going on, mind you, they just happen to be snippets that are (for whatever reason) […] I often find the lists of nominees and winners for book prizes like the Booker or Pulitzer to be somewhat mystifying – much like Oscar or Golden Globe lists… I read rather a lot, and am always amazed at the difficulty I have identifying the vast majority of titles on said lists. I often wonder […] So I just finished Far Rockaway by Charlie Fletcher. As I mentioned recently, I think Fletcher is a vastly underrated author. His Oversight trilogy (two of the three are currently available) was incredible and based on them, I picked this one up. I was hooked by the description as much as my enjoyment of the […] |
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