Posts tagged with ‘B Plus Reviews’
August 29, 2012
TENSE PARANORMAL THRILLER with a touch of snark as the UK’s supernatural secret service takes on US cultists.
Grade: B PLUS
THE APOCALYPSE CODEX: A LAUNDRY FILES NOVEL
Penguin/Ace
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Fantasy, Novels, Paranormal, Science Fiction
August 28, 2012
COMPELLING, WELL RESEARCHED look at the US’s culture of trash creation and its impact on the environment.
Grade: B PLUS
GARBOLOGY: OUR DIRTY LOVE AFFAIR WITH TRASH
Penguin/Avery
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Environmentalism, Non-Fiction, Social and Cultural Commentary
August 25, 2012
MEDITATIVE, ELOQUENT ESSAYS from novelist Marilynne Robinson touch on faith, aging, and the joy of reading.
Grade: B PLUS
WHEN I WAS A CHILD I READ BOOKS: ESSAYS
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Essays, Non-Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Social and Cultural Commentary
August 22, 2012
GORGEOUS, ELEGAIC PRIVATE-EYE yarn captures the spirit of 1970s Chile–with poet Pablo Neruda as the client!
Grade: B PLUS
THE NERUDA CASE
Penguin
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Chile, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Novels
August 21, 2012
ACID SATIRE ON the US political media industrial complex is laugh out loud funny, yet all too true at times.
Grade: B PLUS
THEY EAT PUPPIES, DON'T THEY?
Hachette/Twelve
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Humor, Novels, Politics
August 18, 2012
A RESEARCH PSYCHOLOGIST’S FASCINATING findings on why and how our brains and bodies find things disgusting. B PLUS
THAT’S DISGUSTING
W. W. Norton & Company
2012
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews
August 17, 2012
WARM-HEARTED, WITTY, intricately woven tale of Arab Israelis linked by a chain of coincidence. Fresh, engaging! B PLUS
SECOND PERSON SINGULAR
Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
2012
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews
August 16, 2012
WARM-HEARTED, WITTY, intricately woven tale of Arab Israelis linked by a chain of coincidence. Fresh, engaging!
Grade: B PLUS
SECOND PERSON SINGULAR
Grove Atlantic
2012
Tags: Arab Israeli Writers, B Plus Reviews, Israel, Novels
August 14, 2012
MARVELOUSLY SILLY SPACE saga stars a cranky interplanetary conqueror and his diabolical nemesis. Fun #beachread!
Grade: B PLUS
EMPEROR MOLLUSK VERSUS THE SINISTER BRAIN
Orbit
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Humor, Novels, Science Fiction
August 13, 2012
LUSH HISTORICAL NOVEL follows the career of a 19th century French courtesan, artists’ model, and survivor.
Grade: B PLUS
THE UNRULY PASSIONS OF EUGENIE R.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, France, Historical Fiction, Novels, Women's Fiction