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January 31, 2012
CHARMING, SURPRISINGLY THOUGHT-PROVOKING Australian women’s fiction tale of a suburban mom with amnesia.
Grade: SOLID B
WHAT ALICE FORGOT
Putnam/Amy Einhorn Books
2011
Tags: Novels, Solid B Reviews, Women's Fiction
January 30, 2012
LAID-BACK AND JOKEY but highly informative overview of risks scientists have taken with self-experimentation.
Grade: SOLID B
SMOKING EARS AND SCREAMING TEETH: A CELEBRATION OF SCIENTIFIC ECCENTRICITY AND SELF-EXPERIMENTATION
Pegasus
2011
Tags: History of Science, Non-Fiction, Science, Solid B Reviews
January 29, 2012
CHUCK PALAHNIUK’S LATEST: a scary, funny, satirical trip to Hell with a smart, sassy Veruca Salt-esque heroine. B PLUS
DAMNED
Doubleday
2011
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews
January 28, 2012
CHUCK PALAHNIUK’S LATEST: a scary, funny, satirical trip to Hell with a smart, sassy Veruca Salt-esque heroine.
Grade: B PLUS
DAMNED
Doubleday
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Fantasy, Horror, Novels
January 27, 2012
HAUNTING, COMPLEX HORROR and fantasy tales offer a sophisticated take on race, culture, and the power of legend.
Grade: B PLUS
LET'S PLAY WHITE
Apex
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Black Writers, Fantasy, Horror, Short Stories
January 25, 2012
BITTERSWEET PARABLE OF midlife crisis follows a couple risking their finances and marriage in one last gamble.
Grade: B PLUS
THE ODDS: A LOVE STORY
Viking
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels
January 24, 2012
ENGAGING LOOK INSIDE the recent rebirth of Argentina’s wine industry; fun for aficionados and casual sippers!
Grade: B PLUS
THE VINEYARD AT THE END OF THE WORLD: MAVERICK WINEMAKERS AND THE REBIRTH OF MALBEC
W. W. Norton
2012
Tags: Argentina, B Plus Reviews, Non-Fiction, Social History, Wine and Spirits Writing
January 23, 2012
DEFTLY PLOTTED UK mystery: brooding aristocrat Inspector Lynley investigates death among the rich and famous.
Grade: SOLID B
BELIEVING THE LIE
Dutton
2012
Tags: Mystery, Novels, Solid B Reviews
January 22, 2012
A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY of the medieval and Renaissance Inquisitions sheds light on modern ideas of punishment.
Grade: SOLID B
GOD'S JURY: THE INQUISITION AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2012
Tags: History, Italy, Non-Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Solid B Reviews, Spain
January 21, 2012
GRIM, ATMOSPHERIC TALE traces the impact of Nazi occupation on the island of Guernsey, and on one girl’s family.
Grade: B PLUS
THE BOOK OF LIES
Harper Perennial
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels, World War II