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Darryl Accone Judges Five Book Covers: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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An amusing piece from the Mail & Guardian’s books editor on five covers that caught his eye this decade, for alternately the right and wrong reasons: The Good The Bad The Ugly What could be more redolent and evocative of decades past than the old-fashioned glass milk bottle, with ...9 hours ago -
Video: Clovis Casali Interviews Breyten Breytenbach on Voice Over, Middleworld and More
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Alert! Breyten Breytenbach has just appeared on France 24, an English-language news service and press review, to talk about his friend, the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, and his two latest books, Oorblyfsel/Voice Over and Notes from the Middle World . The former work, of course, is explicitly linked ...12 hours ago -
Maureen Isaacson (and the SI’s) Top Books of 2009
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Alert! Chalk up three thumbs up for Thando Mgqolozana ’s A Man Who is Not a Man from the Sunday Independent . That august paper’s books page editor, Maureen Isaacson, has picked it along with five other titles as her must-have must-reads of 2009. The other writers who feature in Isaacson’s final word ...1 day ago -
Always Looking Up by Michael J Fox
Glad to be a Girl —
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At the turn from my bedroom into the hallway leading to the kitchen there is an old full-length mirror in a wooden frame. I cant help but catch a glimpse of myself as I pass, and turning myself towards the glass, I consider what I see. This reflected version of myself, wet, shaking, rumpled, slightly stooped, and ...1 day ago -
Book review: ‘Searching For Pemberley’ by Mary Lydon Simonsen
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Following the end of World War II, young American Maggie Joyce is living and working in war-torn London. Desperate not to return home to the tiny Pennsylvania town where her family lives quietly and uninterestingly, Maggie has made her way through Europe and settled in England, where she makes new friends through her ...2 days ago -
Books - 2010-11 Book Club Nominations
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This year, members of the Internation Fiction Book Club of New Orleans submitted great nominations. If you dont belong to the club but have insights on any books, please leave a comment. Its ok to influence our members! Members, please send me your 12 choices by January 20, 2010. Thanks for voting. AFRICA ...2 days ago -
Barking Mad Booksale – 19th-21st February 2010
Dunedin Public Libraries News & Reviews Blog —
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Bring a bag and fetch some bargains. Choose from thousands of adult and children’s books at 50c, magazines 20c and a choice of CDs, DVDs and speciality books as priced – something for everyone guaranteed. Friday 19 February 4.00pm – 8.00pm Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 February 10.00am – 4.00pm City ...2 days ago -
Book Review: Wisdom Hunter by Randall Arthur
Quiverfull Family —
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As a believer who has struggled with legalism from early on in my Christian life, I found the promised premise of Randall Arthur’s Wisdom Hunter intriguing. As the story of a legalistic preacher who is forced to reevaluate his beliefs and rebuild his faith from the roots up, I was excited to read about a ...3 days ago -
Alphabet in Crime Fiction: J and K
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Whilst I’ve been busy moving house Kerrie’s A-Z Crime Fiction meme has featured the letters J and K. Now that I have the computer up and working (well D actually did that for me) I’m having a little break from unpacking boxes to add to the series. I’ve written about the following books earlier in this blog ...4 days ago -
Book review: ‘The Lost Art Of Keeping Secrets’ by Eva Rice
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No novel in recent memory has enchanted me more than Eva Rice’s The Lost Art Of Keeping Secrets . In fact, it’s going to be hard to even try and review it objectively — I just thought it was that magical, exciting, and engrossing, and if I could build a time machine and travel back to a time in which I ...5 days ago -
Geralds Game
Bryan's Book Blog —
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by Stephen King (New York: Signet, 1993) Paperback, 445 Pages, Fiction ISBN: 9780451176462 , US$7.50 ABCD Rating: CHECK OUT A Different Kind of Bedtime Story… From the Cover: On a warm weekday in October, in the lovely summer home of Gerald and Jessie ...5 days ago -
Book Review: Corrigans’ Pool by Dot Ryan
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Civil war buffs will love Corrigans’ Pool this holiday seasonWhat can be better than curling up by a cozy fire this holiday season reading a book about the Civil war? I love books about the Civil war – fiction or nonfiction. I used to live in Newport News, Virginia, and there was a park called [...]5 days ago -
Review: IF THE DEAD RISE NOT, Philip Kerr
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Quercus, 2009, ISBN 978-1-84724-942-5, 455 pages Set in Berlin in 1934,in a Germany preparing to host the Olympic Games in 1936. An American Olympic committee is in Berlin supposedly assessing whether there should be a US boycott of the Games because of racial practices in Nazi Germany. Hitlers determination to show ...6 days ago -
First Appearance of Smashwords Distribution
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In my daily check of various marketing strategies Five Rivers employs, I was very pleased to find today the distribution we chose to undertake through Smashwords has taken effect. All our books are now available, in all digital formats, through Barnes and Noble. This is the first of many channels into which Five ...1 week ago -
Cleopatras Daughter
Age 30+ ... A Lifetime of Books —
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Cleopatras Daughter by Michelle Moran 448 pages *** About the Book *** After Octavian defeated the forces of Marc Antony at Alexandria, and after Marc Antony and Cleopatra committed suicide, Octavian took their 11-year-old twins Selene and Alexander with him back to Rome. He sent them to his ...1 week ago -
FORBIDDEN FRUIT, Kerry Greenwood
AustCrimeFiction - Crime Fiction from Australia, New Zealand and everywhere —
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Cover Image Author Kerry Greenwood Publisher Allen & Unwin Copyright 2009 ISBN 978-1-74175-982-2 No of Pages 301 Price Book Synopsis Corinna Chapman, owner of Earthly Delights, detests Christmas. The shoppers are frantic and the heat oppressive. Neither of which ...1 week ago -
Recommended Reading: Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan.
Greenwoman —
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Historical fiction is not my thing–even alternate history. War stories are not my thing. Sci-Fi is not my thing. Leviathan is all of those things that aren’t my thing, so I really wasn’t sure I wanted to read it. But then I saw Scott Westerfeld talk about the book at Barnes and Noble earlier this year, ...1 week ago -
Joyce Meyer: A Life of Redemption and Destiny by Richard Young
Radiant Lit —
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: An educator, businessman, and 5th generation minister, Young’s previously published biographies include: The Rise of Lakewood Church and Joel Osteen , The Journey of T. D. Jakes , and Messengers of Healing — the story of Charles and Frances Hunter written with his wife, Brenda. The ...1 week ago -
Historical Fiction: Skeletons at the Feast, by Chris Bohjalian
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Terrible beauty Having read all of Chris Bohjalian’s previous works, I can venture the opinion that this is his masterpiece. Skeletons at the Feast tells the tale of the Emmerlich family, lower ranked aristocrats living in Poland during WWII. War is hell, to quote Civil War General W.T.Sherman, but – thankfully ...1 week ago -
Tymon Smith’s Top Ten SA Books of 2009 (with Podcasts)
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Alert! The “top books of 2009″ lists keep coming out - and now Sunday Times books editor Tymon Smith has just posted his, an all-SA Lit affair that features BOOK SA members Kevin Bloom , Margie Orford and Alistair Morgan . Smith’s post, which lists the ten favoured books “in no particular ...1 week ago
