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| BOOK REVIEWS: 'Arcadia Falls,' 'The Wives of Henry Oades' - HuntingtonNews.Net Posted: 10 Mar 2010 04:27 AM PST Sorry, readability was unable to parse this page for content. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Book Review Roundup - Huffingtonpost.com Posted: 10 Mar 2010 07:26 AM PST Did you miss the weekend's book reviews? Check out some of the highlights here:
[T]he skill with which his tales are constructed is more apparent in "Burning Bright," a new book of stories [than in his best-known novel "Serena"]. The short-story format lacks the novel's complexity but has similar impact. And these pared-down tales make it much easier to see how expertly Mr. Rash fine-tunes his work.
Her rousing story turns on bad and fallen angels, particularly the offspring of matings between humans and heavenly beings. The hybrids known as Nephilim first appear in Genesis 6: "The sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose," and when "they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown." This might not sound so bad, but in Trussoni's handling, the Nephilim are "beautiful, iridescent monsters" who belong in cages.
In his new memoir, "Making Toast," Rosenblatt assembles a collage of images, scenes, dialogue and moments of reflection to portray [his daughter] Amy's world: her parents, brothers, husband Harris, friends, colleagues and, most especially, her children: Jessie, Sam and James, all under age 7 at the time of her death from an asymptomatic heart condition.
[T]his is a shrewd portrait of two people who in their different ways were noteworthy participants in American culture during one of its liveliest periods. Meade's account of the West-McKenney marriage is necessarily brief, and scattered references to his friends' and wife's alarm at his terrible driving point inexorably toward its grim denouement in the fatal crash on Dec. 22, 1940, just four days before the theatrical version of "My Sister Eileen" opened on Broadway.
The Morris prose style is, in a word, wordy. Must we know the details of every German-language newspaper in St. Louis? We do, because to Morris every side trip is less a tangent than a slalom. A thrilling toboggan-ride tour of history, "Pulitzer" is also a major biographical success. Morris entices the reader to see his world the way Pulitzer saw his World.
This is not a happy book, but it is a rewarding one. "The Surrendered" grabs your attention - sometimes terrifying you in the process - and doesn't let go until its final moment. For a book permeated by death, its pages are breathtakingly alive.
"The Oxford Companion to the Book" is a monument to mankind's most effective means of communication, one that is infinitely portable, transmissible and treasurable, intimate and tactile in ways that none of its rivals can attain. Book is, was, always will be best.
One of the weaknesses of Taithe's book is the speed and enthusiasm with which the historian moves past his subject--the Voulet-Chanoine mission--to a broader consideration of contemporary French culture. But Taithe's description of the fragility of French domestic politics at the turn of the century is vivid and revealing: Socialist and anarchist organizing seemed to portend a revolution, and the right had propped up aging generals, and used them as the agents of failed coups.
Simple it's not. But Mr. Mankell never is. This is one of his most complicated and skilled mysteries, in which dark threads are woven into an unlikely conclusion. His writing is reflected in the first sentences of this latest book, which read, "Frozen snow, severe frost. Midwinter ... a lone wolf crosses the unmarked border and enters Sweden from Norway. ... It is beginning to feel the pain of hunger and is desperately searching for food."Get HuffPost Books On Twitter, Facebook, and Google Buzz! Know something we don't? E-mail us at Books@huffingtonpost.com Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Posted: 06 Mar 2010 10:36 AM PST "Alice I Have Been" by Melanie Benjamin Random House, 2010, 368 pages, $25 "Alice I Have Been" is a brilliant blend of fact and fiction that explores the entangled lives of Alice Liddell Hargreaves and Charles Dodgson. Alice was the inspiration for the universally beloved tale "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and Dodgson is better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll. They met at Oxford when Alice was just a young girl, whose father was the university's dean and Dodgson was a shy, stuttering mathematics professor. The unlikely pair strike up a deep friendship, inspiring Dodgson in both his writing and his photography. Their bond, however, is misunderstood by Alice's family, and though she is forced to sever their friendship, she is forever haunted by their connection as heartbreak dominates her life. "Alice I Have Been" also has a current media tie-in with the new movie remake by Tim Burton featuring Johnny Depp. — Amy Churchill, Zauel Memorial Library For high school students and adults "Poems from the Women's Movement," edited by Honor Moore American Poets Project, 2009, 202 pages, $20 The decade of the 1960's was the turning point for many who felt that they needed the world to know that they were an integral part of the thread of America. Among these cultural and political trends, was also the defining movement of "the Woman." Women's History month is a time to pay tribute to the many remarkable women in our lives — and this inspirational book of poems does just that. With passion and power, the voices of Sylvia Plath, Sonia Sanchez, Anne Waldman, Alice Walker and many others share their poetry, which captured an age of purpose. Biographical notes about each poet are also included . — Rhonda Farrell-Butler, coordinator, Children's and Teen Services, Saginaw Public Libraries Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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