by Site Owner | Jul 6, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
By Julian Fellowes St. Martin’s Press, $15.99, 265 pages If you’re going hungry waiting for your next Downton Abbey fix then this is your lucky day. Creator Julian Fellowes is also an author, and his first book, Snobs, has just been released in the U.S. It takes...
by Site Owner | Jul 5, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
By Alix Ohlin Alfred A. Knopf, $25.00, 272 pages Inside is a loose-knit tale of three disparate people whose lives are touched by a woman named Grace. To Mitch, she is his ex-wife and one more sign of his inability to commit. She is Annie’s therapist but, despite her...
by Site Owner | Jul 2, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography
By James Bentley, Photographs by Hugh Palmer Thames & Hudson, $26.95, 216 pages There are a plethora of beautiful books out there about Tuscany. What makes The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany unique is that it goes well beyond the standard Tuscan cities of...
by Site Owner | Jun 29, 2012 | Science Fiction
By Deborah Harkness Viking Adult,$28.95, 580 pages This is the second book in the All Souls trilogy by Deborah Harkness. In the first one, historian and witch, Diana Bishop, met and fell in love with 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew Clairmont. Their relationship threw...
by Site Owner | Jun 21, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Humor
By Henry Alford Twelve, $24.99, 242 pages Henry Alford calls himself an investigative humorist and it’s easy to see why in his latest book Would it Kill You to Stop Doing That?: A Modern Guide to Manners . The subject is good manners and Alford covers it with a sly...
