Archive for the ‘book reviews’ Category
The 5 Best Books of 2011
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett: A Minnesota-based medical researcher is sent by her pharmaceutical company employer to the Amazonian jungle to find a missing…
Halloween Read: The Shining by Stephen King
Halloween is here, and while the theaters are littered with easy-scare movies like Paranormal Activity 3, there’s not much spook in the literary world worth…
Book Review: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
If you think about it, video games are kind of like modern day fairy tales. You inhabit a main character who takes you through a…
Book Review: The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
The Family Fang, Kevin Wilson’s first novel after an excellent and unsettling book of short stories titled Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, centers…
Book Review: The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
Big literary contracts attract readers for a host of reasons, both good and the bad: We want to see if the book is worth the…
Books: A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin
This year, HBO introduced millions of otherwise fantasy-averse viewers to George R.R. Martin’s complex, rich, densely layered and decidedly adult A Song of Fire and…
