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Blogs about: Modern Fiction

Review of Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine (Paperback)

psoriasisnaturaltreatment wrote 1 month ago: This is the most involved and lucid explanation of the Five Phases that I have found. I refer many o … more →

Tags: 1, Ballantine Books, Harriet Beinfield, Efrem Korngold, Between Heaven and Earth A Guide to Chinese Medicine, 0345379748, Herbs - Therapeutic use., materia medica, Vegetable - China.

Review of Native Speaker (Paperback)

psoriasisnaturaltreatment wrote 1 month ago: If you read a great deal, you recognize that only a few books are truly profound and will be regarde … more →

Tags: 1, Fiction, Fiction General, ficti, Chang-Rae Lee, native speaker, Riverhead Trade, 1573225312, Crime and mystery

Review of Where the Heart Is (Oprah's Book Club) (Paperback)

psoriasisnaturaltreatment wrote 1 month ago: You know that you like to laugh, as well as feel sober and near tears.This is a book that should ple … more →

Tags: 1, Grand Central Publishing, billie letts, Where the Heart Is (Oprah's Book Club), 0446672211, Bildungsromane, Friendship - Fiction, Love Stories, Oklahoma - Fiction

Book Review: The Wasted Vigil

Dee wrote 1 month ago: Posted on Blogcritics.org Afghanistan and the Middle East are hot topics in current world politics, … more →

Tags: The Wasted Vigil, Nadeem Aslam, Afghanistan

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian.

jcasa wrote 2 months ago: I have got this small pocket edition with red and blue colors in the cover, and when I started to re … more →

Tags: Literature, Lewycka

Seven houses in France.

jcasa wrote 3 months ago: Siete casas en Francia” is the latest Bernardo Atxaga’s novel. Atxaga is  one of the mos … more →

Tags: Literature, spanish, Books

Eat Love Pray, Elizabeth Gilbert

booksaplenty wrote 3 months ago: Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert A perfect light read if you fancy something uplifting or need a hol … more →

Tags: Women, Fiction, autobiography, Travel

It's a Mystery: The Forgotten Garden, by Kate Morton4 comments

katknit wrote 3 months ago: Foundlings The Forgotten Garden is a family saga, a captivating tale of three generations of women, … more →

Tags: Book Review, Folklore/Mythology, Women, England

Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden

booksaplenty wrote 3 months ago: When Sayuri decides to become a Geisha she enters a world full of tradition, mystery and sexual intr … more →

Tags: ficton, Japan, 20th Century

Thriller: Moscow Rules, by Daniel Silva1 comment

katknit wrote 5 months ago: A Gabriel Allon novel. Good guy Gabriel Artist/not-so-secret-anymore agent Gabriel Allon is lured fr … more →

Tags: Book Review, Thriller

Modern Lit; Darling Jim, by Christian Moerk5 comments

katknit wrote 5 months ago: Storyteller For centuries, storytellers have crisscrossed Ireland, weaving spells in the homes and p … more →

Tags: Book Review, Thriller, Women

Just one book4 comments

cassieopie wrote 6 months ago: I discovered Salt Publishing a couple of years ago when I was researching potential (and at that tim … more →

Tags: Cultural Reviews, Salt Publishing, Salt, Tania Hershman, David Gaffney, Vanessa Gebbie

Bolaño's 2666 pt. 5

bookofjoel wrote 6 months ago: - Book 1: The Part About the Critics - pg. 54-68 “The Sexual Politics of Medusa” Liz Nor … more →

Tags: La-La-Libido, stranger than friction, 2666, roberto bolaño, Medusa, sexual politics, Literature

Watch This: Paris, Je T'aime

katknit wrote 7 months ago: What happens in Paris… Paris, Je T’aime is a series of seemingly unrelated vignettes, ea … more →

Tags: Movie/DVD Review, France

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini3 comments

readingmonk wrote 8 months ago: “For you, a thousand times over.” These words still bring tears to my eyes and cause a l … more →

Tags: Award winners, Book Reviews

Book 4: After Dark1 comment

tasseled wrote 9 months ago: Author: Haruki Murakami, 2007 Genre: Modern Fiction Format: Hardcover, 191 pages Imagine you could b … more →

Tags: Books, 2009 books, haruki murakami

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time3 comments

zawan wrote 9 months ago: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a book by British author Mark Haddon. Told from … more →

Tags: Book Review, British Writers, modern writers, The Curious Incident...

Reacher gets political

Kate wrote 9 months ago: So while I am supposed to be reading Kate Mosse’s Sepulchre (I am about halfway through), I co … more →

Tags: Books, Thriller

Let's Talk about Sex

Kate wrote 9 months ago: Ian McEwans’ On Chesil Beach tells the story of two young newly-weds on their wedding night an … more →

Tags: Books, Modern Literature, Thriller


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