Tag: novel
group name: thebookreview
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September 30, 2008 02:47 PM EDT --
Chances are you know who Detective John Munch is. Actor Richard Belzer has played the detective on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as well as Homicide: Life of the Street . He's also portrayed . . .
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January 03, 2008 01:05 PM EST --
Minnette Meador is an author to start watching. This year she'll have a boatload of books out. I'm going to ask her about her first release for 2008. . . .
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October 01, 2008 04:50 PM EDT --
Or are you just going to be a droopy drawers over your hobo beans eaten right out of the can, warmed up on a burning phone book. You could go to Hollywood and try and be a star. Or you . . .
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March 06, 2008 04:31 PM EST --
Jennifer Porter, http://porterjennifer.wordpress.com , has just reviewed my young adult paranormal novel. Here's what she has to say:
Listen to the Ghost is about a 17 year old girl, Jade, . . .
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June 19, 2008 09:50 AM EDT --
Although I haven't finished reading it yet, I just can't wait to let you know about Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith. If the best books are those that you almost can't put down, then this book is . . .
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September 10, 2008 01:24 AM EDT --
I've always been a fan of Regency romance novels, so this book intrigued me. It is far from the standard Regency tale, however. Regency romances tend to be very predictable. Although . . .
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April 19, 2008 04:11 PM EDT --
I really enjoyed the humor as well as the feeling of strong emotions of Lee as I read this book. The author writes in a way that is easy for the reader to feel the emotions of the leading . . .
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March 23, 2007 07:16 PM EDT --
On the book jacket, Dave Eggers calls Daniel Handler "an American Nabokov," Michael Chabon calls him a "literary conjurer," and Daniel Handler calls himself "an internationally . . .
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September 18, 2008 09:03 PM EDT --
"Trust Rock...Break fear upon rock........Go toward fear. Trust fear. Steer toward rock."
These are the words Jack Moon Szeto's Chinese mother taught him before he left China as an . . .
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May 25, 2007 05:08 PM EDT --
Gray, dark, cold. Ash. Make yourself comfortable with these words. This is what remains of our world in "The Road", Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic vision set in the not so inconceivable . . .
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September 12, 2007 10:39 PM EDT --
Reviewed by Magdalena Ball
The Road
By Cormac McCarthy
Picador
ISBN: 9780330447546 , June 2007, 256 pages, paperback, A$22.95
It’s probably fair to call The Road a perfect novel. . . .
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August 20, 2007 06:34 PM EDT --
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie with Art by Ellen Forney
Hardcover, September 2007, Little, Brown and Co.
This is the first title by Sherman Alexie that I've . . .
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February 17, 2008 09:36 PM EST --
If you had asked Detective Sam Harper who he could trust to always tell him the truth and always be men he'd want by his side when times were tough, it'd be his father, his partner and his boss. . . .
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July 07, 2008 09:43 AM EDT --
I received a copy of this book through the Gather Fiction Readers group. I didn't expect it to arrive so quickly and was already just beginning another book at the time it was delivered. I began . . .
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July 15, 2008 08:55 PM EDT --
When I received notice from Gather that I'd been chosen to get Saralee Rosenberg's Dear Neighbor, Drop Dead to read and review I was thrilled. I had previously read and greatly enjoyed . . .
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May 17, 2008 02:09 AM EDT --
Caution: This review reveals nothing that would spoil your relish at discovering Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
At the intersection of science, society and identity, lives can only be seen as . . .
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November 15, 2007 02:16 PM EST --
Five minutes ago I completed the 1st draft of my fourth novel: Cornelius--the Orphan. Since no one is around and everyone I know is at work, I thought I'd tell my Gather friends. Now for the fun part: . . .
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September 17, 2007 12:44 AM EDT --
Black Wind by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler; G.P. Putnam & Sons, 2004
I don't know if you've ever read one of Cussler's books in the Dirk Pitt series but I became . . .
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September 27, 2007 09:57 PM EDT --
Phoebe the Ghost wants to meet you.
Beverly the Author wants to meet you.
So come on over to Hastings Books, Music, and Videos, Wichita Falls, TX, Saturday, September 29, from 2pm to 5pm, if you're . . .
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February 21, 2008 03:06 PM EST --
Good Man Hunting , by Lisa Landolt is an entertaining and cautionary tale about a young woman's hunt for Mr. Right. When "Plain Jane" Sandra Greene is invited to become . . .
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