Tag Archives: Review Copy

The Lion’s World: A Journey into the Heart of Narnia

Posted on May 22, 2013 by

Despite growing up bookish in a Christian home, Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, did not discover C.S. Lewis until he was in his teens, when he read several of his apologetic works. When he eventually turned to the Narnia … Continue reading →

Posted in Nonfiction, Religion | Tagged | 9 Comments

NOS4A2

Posted on May 14, 2013 by

Charles Talent Manx roams the country in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith, stealing children. He doesn’t want to hurt them — oh, no! He wants to take them to Christmasland, a place not on any map, where the children will stay … Continue reading →

Posted in Fiction, Speculative Fiction | Tagged | 9 Comments

Frozen in Time

Posted on May 4, 2013 by

“Greenland makes no sense,” writes author Mitchell Zuckoff in Frozen in Time. For one thing, it’s not green at all. More than 80 percent of Greenland is buried in ice. For centuries, the massive island has remained largely empty. During … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Nonfiction | Tagged | 7 Comments

A Treacherous Likeness

Posted on April 2, 2013 by

Note: I plan to discuss this novel and its plot in detail. I don’t think you can really “spoil” it, given that the events of the novel are historical and well-known, but Lynn Shepherd gives them her own interpretation, so … Continue reading →

Posted in Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mysteries | Tagged | 8 Comments

Life After Life

Posted on March 23, 2013 by

No breath. All the world come down to this. One breath. Little lungs, like dragonfly wings failing to inflate in the foreign atmosphere. No wind in the strangled pipe. The buzzing of a thousand bees in the tiny curled pearl … Continue reading →

Posted in Fiction, Historical Fiction, Speculative Fiction | Tagged | 18 Comments

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened

Posted on March 5, 2013 by

Perhaps the best indicator of whether you’ll enjoy this memoir by Jenny Lawson (aka The Bloggess) is whether you enjoy reading her blog. If you find her blog funny, you’ll find the book funny. If you find her blog overly … Continue reading →

Posted in Memoir, Nonfiction | Tagged | 18 Comments

Terra

Posted on February 27, 2013 by

Terra is a scavenger on a far-future Earth. She picks up bits of metal and wire — or better yet, precious plastic — and recycles them for credits so she and her younger brother Mica can survive. After a life-altering … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's / YA Lit, Fiction, Speculative Fiction | Tagged | 3 Comments

Thoughts on Abandoning Umbrella

Posted on February 2, 2013 by

For the past week or so, I’ve been dipping in and out of Umbrella by Will Self. It’s not a bad book, and although it’s not an easy read, I’ve not found it as difficult as I thought I might. … Continue reading →

Posted in Abandoned, Fiction | Tagged | 27 Comments

The Beautiful Indifference: Stories

Posted on January 27, 2013 by

When I read a collection of short stories, particularly a collection by the same author, I like to consider threads that hold all the stories together. Are their commonalities in mood or theme or style that make them work as … Continue reading →

Posted in Fiction, Short Stories/Essays | Tagged | 6 Comments

The Gate

Posted on January 19, 2013 by

Sōsuke and Oyone were without question a loving couple. In the six long years they had been together they had not spent so much as half a day feeling strained by the other’s presence, and they had never once engaged … Continue reading →

Posted in Classics, Fiction | Tagged | 11 Comments