A perverse tract?
Adam Kirsch didn’t like Human Smoke: Even a book as bad as “Human Smoke” (Simon and Schuster, 576 pages, $30), Nicholson Baker’s pervers...
Year: 2008
A rare point of light in that darkest of times
Martin Rubin reviews a book that is in my ever growing TBR pile: GOOD NEIGHBORS, BAD TIMES: ECHOES OF MY FATHER’S GERMAN VILLAGE By Mimi Schwartz. He note...
WSJ on Human Smoke
Tom Nagorski tackles Human Smoke in the Wall Street Journal: They are among the uncomfortable truths of World War II: the anti-Semitism that infected certain Al...
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
I am becoming something of a Neil Gaiman fan. It started, as much has these days, with my Kindle. I was browsing for some inexpensive books that I could read an...
The Time Thief by Linda Buckley-Archer
Yesterday, I discussed the first book in the Gideon Trilogy: Gideon the Cutpurse (or The Time Travelers). The sequel – The Time Thief – manages to m...
Gideon the Cutpurse by Linda Buckley-Archer
Gideon the Cutpurse has the unique honor of being the first full book I read on my beloved Kindle. I have been in another one of my YA fantasy moods and so dove...