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Book Review: How The Dead Dream by Lydia Millet
If we are dead to anything but money and what it can give us, what kind of dreams are we going to have?
Read More »Book Review: Night Train To Lisbon by Pascal Mercier
...a good, intelligent read that's an excellent analysis of character and poses some fascinating questions about life and love.
Read More »Book Review: World Without End by Ken Follett
He's not a great writer, or even a good one, but he's a great storyteller.
Read More »Book Review: The Death Of Achilles by Boris Akunin
Akunin has written another masterpiece of detection and mystery.
Read More »Book Review: Murder On The Leviathan by Boris Akunin, Andrew Bromfield (Translator)
Not only is Akunin a master storyteller, but he is an adroit student of the various genres of crime and detective fiction.
Read More »Book Review: The Turkish Gambit by Boris Akunin
Boris Akunin has proven himself a master raconteur with a deft hand for developing character and a devious mind for plots.
Read More »Book Review: The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin
...balances the floweriness of 19th-century naturalism with enough 20th-century realism to create a confection of wit and intelligence.
Read More »DVD Review: Pride And Prejudice – Tenth Anniversary Edition
Watching Pride And Prejudice again, more then ten years later, I was once again struck at how astounding the production was.
Read More »Book Review: Separate Worlds by Nancy Minnis Damato
The last book in the Taylor family saga.
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