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Aug 28
How to Write a Book Review
I love writing book reviews. If reading a book is like going on a vacation, writing a book review is like showing the photos and souvenirs and telling my friends about the trip. Book reviews can turn the solitary pleasure of reading into something shared with a community of like-minded readers. It also helps other …
Mar 29
Book Review: The Sentence
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich The logline got me to put this book on my wishlist: bookseller is haunted by a ghost. I expected maybe something cute and a little bit spooky, like a cozy mystery with supernatural elements. But this book is much deeper than that. I hadn’t realized it dealt so much with …
Mar 26
Book Review: The Fisherman
The Fisherman by John Langan I wanted a book that scratched the same itch as T. Kingfisher’s horror, and this one did the trick. It’s very firmly ensconced in the real world, and yet the supernatural elements seemed plausible. One of the ways in which Langan brings the reader into the supernatural elements is through …
Mar 19
Book Review:
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English by John McWhorter If you’ve ever wondered why English doesn’t act like other Germanic languages, this book is for you. It’s more than just “here’s all the stuff we stole from the Norman French” but goes into why we say “do you have the time” instead …
Mar 15
Book Review: The Girl in the Ice
The Girl in the Ice by Robert Bryndza This is the first in a long-running series that a dear friend recommended, so I’d hoped it would really capitvate me. It’s a rough start. No cliche left unexplored in this police procedural. What at first seems like a simple murder investigation of the daughter of a …