Category: Reviews
Book reviews
Martin Amis, Literature, and Religion post 9/11
Martin Amis reflects on literature in this Guardian article: The voice of the lonely crowd. Amis is a good writer. He has an amazing ability to craft prose and ...
Nabokov's Speak Memory
Speaking of Classics, here is a quote from a great one: The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of li...
My book addiction continues
In the ongoing saga of my addiction to book buying, I fell off the wagon hard tonight! A bookstore in town (actually a chain) called half-price books got a hold...
WFB's New Book!
Wondering why I wasn’t posting last night {let’s pretend you care ok}? Well, it was because of this . . .
More Ambrose Things are not
More Ambrose Things are not looking good for historian Stephen Ambrose on the plagiarism front. This one , unearthed by Forbes, is an oldie but if a pattern dev...