by Site Owner | Jan 18, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
By Richard Ford ecco, $27.99, 420 pages Richard Ford’s Canada is the story of Dell Parsons, a 15-year-old boy who finds his life uprooted, not once but twice, through the actions of the adults around him. After his parents are arrested for a bank robbery attempt, he...
by Site Owner | Aug 1, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
By Jacqueline E. Luckett Grand Central Publishing, $14.99, 320 pages Nicole-Marie Hardy has long dreamed of going to Paris but it is not until she makes a promise to a dying friend that her journey begins. Once there, in a wild coincidence, she comes across a photo of...
by Site Owner | Jul 30, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
By Irene Nemirovsky Vintage, $14.95, 200 pages Gladys Eysenach is on trial for the murder of her alleged lover. In short order she is found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison. This is not the end of Irene Nemirovsky’s novel Jezebel but its opening pages. By...
by Site Owner | Jul 25, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography, Biographies & Memoirs
By Matthew Batt Mariner Books, $14.95, 256 pages Home ownership is a long cherished American dream, but in Sugarhouse, Matthew Batt illustrates what can happen when renters buy their first house with no idea what lies beneath the wall-to-wall shag carpeting or behind...
by Site Owner | Jul 23, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
By Jessica Dorfman Jones Crown Trade, $25.00, 336 pages Klonopin Lunch is the true story of Jessica Dorfman Jones’s journey to discover herself via “Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll”. A friend’s suggestion that they take guitar lessons is the ticket-to-ride for this...
