Posts tagged with ‘B Plus Reviews’
November 9, 2012
GORGEOUS LITTLE ART book is a collage of impressions–in photos and text–of the owner of a lost address book.
Grade: B PLUS
THE ADDRESS BOOK
Siglio
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Biography, Fiction, France, Non-Fiction, Photography
November 6, 2012
LOVELY, SPARE PROSE tells the story of a gay Moroccan man wrestling with the ideas of Arab identity, culture.
Grade: B PLUS
AN ARAB MELANCHOLIA
Semiotext(e)/Smart Art
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Egypt, LGBTQ Interest, Middle East, Morocco, Novels
October 29, 2012
HILARIOUS SATIRE OF the celebritification of everyday life focuses on the media and powerful PR organizations.
Grade: B PLUS
THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN SPEAKING
Simon and Schuster
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Humor, Novels, Social and Cultural Commentary
October 25, 2012
FEARLESS INTERDIMENSIONAL DETECTIVE Thursday Next fights to save the world (and her odd family) yet again. Fun!
Grade: B PLUS
THE WOMAN WHO DIED A LOT: A THURSDAY NEXT NOVEL
Viking
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Fantasy, Humor, Novels
October 24, 2012
BEAUTIFULLY PLOTTED COZY mystery is another winning outing for indomitable Cotswolds sleuth Agatha Raisin.
Grade: B PLUS
HISS AND HERS: AN AGATHA RAISIN MYSTERY
St. Martin's/Minotaur
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Mystery, Novels
October 21, 2012
THE FASCINATING LIFE AND WORK of chef Marcus Samuelsson, a Swedish adoptee from Ethiopia. Revealing, touching!
Grade: B PLUS
YES, CHEF: A MEMOIR
Random House
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Ethiopia, Ethiopian Writers, Food Writing, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Sweden, Swedish Writers
October 17, 2012
QUIETLY COMPELLING NOVEL focuses on a Nigerian expatriate in London, and her sense of alienation even at home.
Grade: B PLUS
A BIT OF DIFFERENCE
Interlink Publishing Group
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Black Writers, Nigeria, Nigerian Writers, Novels
October 16, 2012
VIVID CONTEMPORARY FANTASY follows a detective’s search for her missing partner. Scary creatures, noir zing!
Grade: B PLUS
HIDDEN THINGS
Harper Voyager
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Fantasy, Novels
October 12, 2012
POST-APOCALYPTIC THRILLER’S ANTIHERO is amnesiac, recently unfrozen—still a quintessentially noir detective.
Grade: B PLUS
IMMOBILITY
Tor
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels, Science Fiction, Thriller
October 8, 2012
TOP-NOTCH IRISH MYSTERY centers on a family killing and the troubled detective investigating the deaths.
Grade: B PLUS
BROKEN HARBOR
Viking
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Mystery, Novels