January 15, 2012
POINTED SATIRE OF the business world’s sociopathy, misogyny is like spending 2+ hours with a misogynist sociopath. SOS
LIGHTNING RODS
New Directions Publishing Corporation
2011
Grade: SOCIOPATH. SOS
Tags: Sociopath. Sos Reviews
January 14, 2012
POINTED SATIRE OF the business world’s sociopathy, misogyny is like spending 2+ hours with a misogynist sociopath. SOS
LIGHTNING RODS
New Directions
2011
Tags: Novels, Social and Cultural Commentary
January 13, 2012
AN ODDLY APPEALING HITMAN in the grip of a midlife crisis is the protagonist of this unusual, surprising novel.
Grade: SOLID B
CALLING MR. KING
Other Press
2011
Tags: Novels, Solid B Reviews
January 12, 2012
THE LOST BOYS (and girls) of the 1980s punk and straight-edge scenes take center stage in this elegaic novel.
Grade: SOLID B
TEN THOUSAND SAINTS
Ecco
2011
Tags: New York City, Novels, Solid B Reviews
January 11, 2012
EXHAUSTIVELY RESEARCHED INVESTIGATION of how Nazi war criminals escaped justice is shocking and comprehensive.
Grade: B PLUS
NAZIS ON THE RUN: HOW HITLER'S HENCHMEN FLED JUSTICE
Oxford University Press
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, History, Non-Fiction, World War II
January 10, 2012
FASCINATING TRUE TALES of the scholars, zealots, and eccentrics who have searched for an actual Garden of Eden.
Grade: B PLUS
PARADISE LUST: SEARCHING FOR THE GARDEN OF EDEN
Grove Press
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, History, Non-Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Social History
January 9, 2012
STORY-WITHIN-A-STORY starts with a bang and ends with a whimper. Even Byron can’t make this novel sizzle!
Grade: B MINUS
CHILDISH LOVES
W. W. Norton
2011
Tags: B Minus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Literary History, Novels
January 8, 2012
EPIC HISTORICAL NOVEL with a magic realist touch takes in the Spanish Civil War, its origins and its aftermath.
Grade: SOLID B
BOOKS BURN BADLY
Random House
2011
Tags: Historical Fiction, Novels, Solid B Reviews, Spain
January 7, 2012
THOUGHTFUL, COMPLEX NOVEL traces a relationship from its start as a brief affair to the end of two marriages.
Grade: B PLUS
THE FORGOTTEN WALTZ
W. W. Norton
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels
January 6, 2012
HEARTBREAKINGLY CANDID MEMOIR of dyslexia, surprising in its source: Pulitzer-winning poet Philip Schultz.
Grade: SOLID A
MY DYSLEXIA
W. W. Norton
2011
Tags: Memoirs, Mental Health and Illness, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Solid A Reviews