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May 21, 2012
THE DUCHESS OF WINDSOR gets yet another biography; this one offers some interesting new information, insights. SOLID B
THAT WOMAN: THE LIFE OF WALLIS SIMPSON, DUCHESS OF WINDSOR
St. Martin’s Press
2013
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Solid B Reviews
May 20, 2012
THE DUCHESS OF WINDSOR gets yet another biography; this one offers some interesting new information, insights.
Grade: SOLID B
THAT WOMAN: THE LIFE OF WALLIS SIMPSON, DUCHESS OF WINDSOR
St. Martin's Press
2012
Tags: Biography, England, History, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews
May 19, 2012
SUBTLE, MIND-BENDING THRILLER compellingly mixes time travel, espionage, and digital revolutionaries. Wild!
Grade: A MINUS
THE REVISIONISTS
Little, Brown and Company
2011
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Novels, Science Fiction, Thriller
May 18, 2012
THE FUNNIEST AGORAPHOBIA MEMOIR ever written? Almost certainly, but there’s insight aplenty as well.
Grade: B PLUS
AGORAFABULOUS! DISPATCHES FROM MY BEDROOM
William Morrow
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Humor, Memoirs, Mental Health and Illness, Non-Fiction
May 17, 2012
A VACATIONING WIDOW gets caught in the undertow of a Mexican drug war in this savvy noir-esque thriller.
Grade: B PLUS
GETAWAY
Soho Press
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels, Thriller
May 16, 2012
QUIETLY COMPELLING, EVOCATIVE novel about an accident investigator haunted by his brother’s early death.
Grade: B PLUS
THE RECONSTRUCTIONIST
Harper Perennial
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels
May 15, 2012
INSIDE THE INTERNET activism that helped to spark the Arab Spring protests, with one of its early organizers.
Grade: SOLID B
REVOLUTION 2.0: THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE IS GREATER THAN THE PEOPLE IN POWER
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2012
Tags: Egypt, Non-Fiction, Politics, Social and Cultural Commentary, Social Media, Solid B Reviews, Technology
May 14, 2012
SEARINGLY PERSONAL, YET incisively analytical memoir of ovarian cancer from women’s studies star Susan Gubar.
Grade: B PLUS
MEMOIR OF A DEBULKED WOMAN: ENDURING OVARIAN CANCER
W. W. Norton and Company
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Health, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Women's Issues
May 13, 2012
MARVELOUSLY CRAFTED NOVEL of an expatriate returning to England and being caught up in a 60-year-old murder.
Grade: A MINUS
BEFORE THE POISON
William Morrow
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Novels
May 12, 2012
THE EXTRAORDINARY LITERARY HISTORY of gay writers in America, particularly in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Grade: B PLUS
EMINENT OUTLAWS: THE GAY WRITERS WHO CHANGED AMERICA
Grand Central
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, LGBTQ Interest, Literary History, Non-Fiction, Social and Cultural Commentary