Book Reviews
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Alexander McCall Smith - Dream Angus
Like a fairytale for adults, a light, rose-tinted book that almost passes you by Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
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Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
Would I be too emphatic in saying that this is one of the best books I have read all year? No, because quite simply it is. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
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Paul Auster - Travels in the Scriptorium
undoubtedly a return to what Auster does best. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
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The Night Watch - Sarah Waters
The subsections, pace and intrigue of the story ensure the reader's attention never wanders Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
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Shame by Karin Alvtegen
The prose is crisp and the narrative fast paced Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
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Clear Water - Will Ashon
Ashon's confident, tragicomic prose never falters Read more »| 13 Sep 2006
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A.L.I.E.E.E.N. - Lewis Trondheim
If I accept 'A.L.I.E.E.E.N.'s central conceit - that it is an alien comic book, discovered in a crater in the American Catskills - then the first observation... Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
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Deogratias - J.P. Stassen
it might just change your perception of both comic books and the genocide Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
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The Fate of the Artist - Eddie Campbell
it hardly reads as something soul-baring enough to deserve a larger audience Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
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The Man Who Knew Too Much - David Leavitt
it borrows too heavily from other works to ever really become the unique and accessible biography it aims to be Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
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Fun Home
Bechdel's bittersweet coming-of-age anecdotes gently draw us in Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
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The Last Man Who Knew Everything - Andrew Robinson
Thomas Young, the anonymous polymath who proved Newton wrong, explained how we see, cured the sick, and deciphered the Rosetta Stone, among other feats of genius Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
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Overexposure - Hugo Rifkind [SKINNYFest 1]
The frothy tone undermines serious intent. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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The Road to Reality - Roger Penrose
Shelve this one next to the Bible. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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My Father's Notebook - Kader Abdolah [SKINNYFest 3]
Kader Abdolah weaves Sufi myths, political intrigue and biography into a charming meditation on the relationship between father and son Read more »| 14 Aug 2006