Posts tagged with ‘B Plus Reviews’
May 30, 2011
THOUGHTFUL, ELOQUENT, MORALLY complex look at a murder trial; sobering, and exactly opposite to sensationalism.
Grade: B PLUS
IPHIGENIA IN FOREST HILLS: ANATOMY OF A MURDER TRIAL
Yale University Press
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, True Crime
May 29, 2011
MASTER OF SPEC-FIC SILLINESS Tom Holt brings us another delightfully funny romp of magic and muddled dimensions.
Grade: B PLUS
LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF SAUSAGES
Orbit
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Fantasy, Humor, Novels, SF
May 28, 2011
INTRIGUE AT A MUMBAI research institute highlights the impact of class, caste, and gender in deftly comic novel.
Grade: B PLUS
SERIOUS MEN
W. W. Norton & Company
2010
Tags: B Plus Reviews, India, Indian Writers, Novels
May 27, 2011
THE BEST MAISIE DOBBS mystery yet finds the English sleuth facing the fallout of 1932’s international tensions.
Grade: B PLUS
A LESSON IN SECRETS: A MAISIE DOBBS MYSTERY
HarperCollins
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Novels
May 26, 2011
SEARINGLY CANDID MEMOIR of the writer’s years of abuse by a charismatic pedophile and neglect by her parents.
Grade: B PLUS
TIGER, TIGER
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Memoirs, Mental Health and Illness, Non-Fiction
May 24, 2011
RODDY DOYLE’S NEW story collection crafts wistful poetry out of the everyday trials and triumphs of Irish men.
Grade: B PLUS
BULLFIGHTING
Viking
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Ireland, Short Stories
May 23, 2011
A LIBERIAN BROADCASTER sketches a portrait of her conflict-torn country in her own story, those of listeners.
Grade: B PLUS
AND STILL PEACE DID NOT COME: A MEMOIR OF RECONCILIATION
Hyperion
2011
Tags: Africa, African Writers, B Plus Reviews, History, Liberia, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Writers of Color
May 21, 2011
TENSE, TAUT FINANCIAL THRILLER from Norb Vonnegut is set in the rarefied world of global hedge fund skulduggery.
Grade: B PLUS
THE GODS OF GREENWICH
St. Martin's/Minotaur
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels, Thriller
May 20, 2011
A SUDDEN TRAGEDY links two Cape Cod families in this delicate, complex, elegaic novel. Truly touching.
Grade: B PLUS
PICTURES OF YOU
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels
May 17, 2011
SURLY AND SARCASTIC as Spade, quixotic as Marlowe, Turkish-German detective Kemal Kayankaya is simply The Man. B PLUS
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TURK! (KEMAL KAYANKAYA SERIES #1)
Melville House Publishing
2011
Grade: B PLUS
Tags: B Plus Reviews