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Year: 2014

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The Moor’s Account — The Barnes & Noble Review

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Stefan Beck reviews the The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami

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The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje

Posted on September 21, 2014 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

There is a real poetic sense or feel to the writing. The early vignettes are beautiful sketches that take the reader back in time and allows them to picture thi...

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Jonah Goldberg on writing a book

Posted on September 12, 2014 by Kevin Holtsberry / 2 Comments

The problem, you see, is that people who don’t write books don’t know what an unending, unyielding ass-ache they are. I’d compare them to a no...

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The Spindlers by Lauren Oliver

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Some creative parts but overall it just seemed a little flat. There were lots of classical elements (changeling, sibling quest, underground world, test of chara...

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The Spindlers by Lauren Oliver

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Some creative parts but overall it just seemed a little flat. There were lots of classical elements (changeling, sibling quest, underground world, test of chara...

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Authors we have lost and other collected, er, miscellany

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

I break my recent blog silence with some news and notes about authors who have passed and some with new books. Trying to balance things out; Yin and Yang, etc.

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