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Heartbreakingly, aggravatingly, not for me.

Ararat by Christopher Golden

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I wanted to post this as its own review because reading and thinking about this book made me so mad that it spurred me to catch up on my reviews just so I could talk about this stupid awful book. I’m being mean because I was so hopeful at the beginning and so let down so quickly. Ararat by Christopher Golden is about an archeological/documentary/explorer crew who, while on a dig documenting what appears to be Noah’s Ark thousands of feet above sea level on […]

The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter

Mr. Wilder & Me by Jonathan Coe

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Today Billy Wilder is remembered as one of Hollywood’s greatest film directors, but because his masterpieces are all in black and white, many film buffs might not realize that he continued making movies all the way until 1981. Jonathan Coe’s novel Mr. Wilder & Me finds the director shooting one of his later films, 1978’s Fedora. On the outs with the Hollywood studios, Wilder is forced to accept foreign money to finance the picture, which he films in Greece, Germany, and France. The return to […]

Recipes and Stories from Canada would be enough

Taste the Wild by Lisa Nieschlag, Lars Wentrup

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Bingo 20: Landscape As the cover (pictured above) suggests, this book is about Canada (see wooded landscape in mists) in terms of food (it’s part cookbook) and character (it’s part excerpted prose bits from travel and fiction stories, and photography collection too). I can see how all of this could fit together, except that it doesn’t quite work out. The photos are gorgeous but the sentimental/philosophical sayings accompanying them are so out of context that to me at least they come off as either hollow […]

Penric and Desdemona, name a more iconic duo

The Assassins of Thasalon by Lois McMaster Bujold

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The Assassins of Thasalon is the latest in Lois McMaster Bujold’s Penric series. Most are novellas but we have the treat of a full length novel this time. The plots continues from the last novella  The Physicians of Vilnoc (not last in publication date but in chronology) and is the 10th in the series. Penric is settled down with a young daughter toddling about adorably and another on the way. One of the things I love about this character is his kindness, even though he’s a […]



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