Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Grahame-Smith's novel follows his successful first foray into turning classic literature into horror, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. There isn't much to say about the plot of Lincoln aside from what you can guess from the very title ...
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Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Running Through the Wall: Personal Encounters with the Ultramarathon by Neal Jamison
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Most people think of an ultramarathon as something only 'crazy people' do. I used to think that myself, before I ran one. An ultra, though, is nothing more than a test of a ...
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
The Most Beautiful Book in the World: And Other Stories by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
In this collection of short stories, by the French author and filmmaker, character is held to the highest esteem. More importantly, though, these are stories about love. People in love. Marriages working ...
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is the best post September 11 book I've read, mostly because it doesn't dwell on the events of that fateful day. Instead, McCann takes us back thirty-plus years to that fateful day in 1974 when Phillipe ...
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Sunday, February 21st, 2010
The Best That Ever Did It by Ed Lacy
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Another pulp thriller from Ed Lacy. I enjoyed this one more than the last, perhaps because Lacy has a way of creating detectives that aren't quite the standard mold. Barney Harris is a widower raising his ...
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Sunday, February 21st, 2010
It's hard not to get caught up in the magic of Shakespeare's The Tempest, currently at the Harvey Theatre at BAM. The show is part of the Bridge Project, a cross-Atlantic production by BAM, The Old Vic and Neal Street. This play was produced in conjunction with As You Like ...
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
While the book can often read as a too long magazine piece, the story Christopher McDougall tells of the Tarahumara, an indigenous tribe living in the ...
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Saturday, January 30th, 2010
If you had to pick one theme from the wonderful Disney stage production of Mary Poppins playing now at the New Amsterdam Theatre on 42nd Street, it would be a line from the new song written by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe. "Anything can happen if you let it," Mary ...
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Lead With Your Left by Ed Lacy
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I don't know why I've only read one other of Lacy's novels. His stories are pulp, that's for sure. The mystery is relatively simple, the plot straight forward. But he's got some interesting characters, and the lives they lead ...
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel by John Irving
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
John Irving's twelfth novel, Last Night in Twisted River, is classic John Irving; the book not only contains many of the recurring themes of his best works (Garp, Cider House, Owen Meany, Hotel New Hampshire), ...
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