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Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
I’ve read a number of books that present themselves as short story collections, but which, when taken as a whole, comprise powerful novels. I think one reason that this succeeds is that the aut… more →
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Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
Andrew wrote 1 month ago: I’ve read a number of books that present themselves as short story collections, but which, whe … more →
Soda Pop Rockets, by Paul Jarvis
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Andrew wrote 1 month ago: The great thing about having kids is that you get to play kid games and pretend you’re … more →
The Gifts of the Jews, by Thomas Cahill
Andrew wrote 1 month ago: What is it about a ragtag group of nomads that has both inspired and outraged civilizations f … more →
The Yard Dog, by Sheldon Russell
Andrew wrote 1 month ago: 1943. A dreary Oklahoma town, where the Dust Bowl and Depression still hang heavily over the reside … more →
Ordinary Heroes, by Scott Turow
Andrew wrote 1 month ago: Turow is well-known for his legal thrillers, including Presumed Innocent, which I think paved the wa … more →
The Royal Physician's Visit, by Per Olov Enquist
Andrew wrote 8 months ago: Fiction at its best can immerse the reader in another person’s experience, so that even unsymp … more →
Out Stealing Horses, by Per Petterson
Andrew wrote 8 months ago: At first glance, Per Petterson’s novel is as bleak as an Arctic landscape – an old man, … more →
In the Time of the Butterflies, by Julia Alvarez
Andrew wrote 8 months ago: In a society that quadrennially pats itself on the back for a “peaceful transition of power … more →
The Ghost, by Robert Harris
Andrew wrote 8 months ago: The publishing world is filled with ghostwriters. Sometimes they keep a franchise author’s wor … more →
Killing Rommel, by Stephen Pressfield
Andrew wrote 8 months ago: Stephen Pressfield is known for his detailed and thoughtful accounts of historical and imagined wars … more →
The Whistling Season, by Ivan Doig
Andrew wrote 10 months ago: The cast of Ivan Doig’s The Whistling Season has the potential of growing like Topsy – e … more →
Cordelia Underwood, by Van Reid
Andrew wrote 10 months ago: Call a book “sweet” and I’m almost guaranteed not to read it. Call it “char … more →
The Double Bind, by Chris Bohjalian
Andrew wrote 10 months ago: While a college student, Laurel Estabrook is attacked on a lonely country road, brutalized and nearl … more →
The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
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Andrew wrote 10 months ago: It would be difficult to make the residents of a small German town near the infamous Dachau concentr … more →
Go Down Moses, by William Faulkner
Andrew wrote 10 months ago: I blogged earlier about The Reivers, citing it as one of William Faulkner’s most accessible st … more →
An Instance of the Fingerpost, by Iain Pears
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Andrew wrote 1 year ago: In Akira Kurosawa’s groundbreaking film Rashoman, four witnesses recount the same event filter … more →
The Pirate's Daughter, by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Andrew wrote 1 year ago: Two Jamaican women are affected by their very different relationships with Errol Flynn in Margaret C … more →
Ali and Nino, by Kurban Said
Andrew wrote 1 year ago: It’s an old and familiar story: boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, boy loses girl, boy … more →
A Gentleman's Guide to Gracious Living, by Michael Dahlie
Andrew wrote 1 year ago: Arthur Camden, a longstanding member of Manhattan’s elite social set, is stunned when his wife … more →
