MORE
Most Recent Entries
- Living life by magazine advice
- Summer readin'
- Summer kid reading, teen division
- Teenages witches
- Thrills, mysteries and rivers of blood
- Looks into the future of language and China
- A new Bond book, sort of
- American families on the financial edge
- A new take on American history
- Alan Furst's new spy novel
- New books: princes, religion and polygamists
- A new story about 9/11, another WWII novel
- From contemporary lit to classic sci fi
- A new Naval history, an inside look into Iraqi
- Man Booker Finalist = Worth Your Time
Monthly Archives
|
Tan Twan Eng’s The Gift of Rain was nominated for the Man Booker Prize — the top award for contemporary fiction award each year in Britain for British or Irish writers. The novel, Eng’s debut, follows the life of a young half-British, half-Chinese man growing up during World War II. Most reviews call the novel “epic,” so make sure that’s your sort of thing.
Also new in fiction: Julie Compton offers Tell No Lies, in which a young, handsome A-type attorney has his run for the District Attorney office tripped up by the fact that a) he begins an affair with enigmatic woman and b) she turns up as the chief suspect in a murder investigation. Uh-oh. And in In The Wind, author Barbara Fister offers another crime novel, this one about a 30-year-old case involving the murder of a FBI agent.
