Posts tagged with ‘Solid B Reviews’
October 27, 2012
FRENCH WRITER AND BOOK collector Jacques Bonnet shares slyly insightful thoughts on his 40,000-volume library.
Grade: SOLID B
PHANTOMS ON THE BOOKSHELVES
The Overlook Press
2012
Tags: Book Collecting, France, Literary History, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews
October 26, 2012
ENGAGING, CANDID MEMOIR of parenting as a gay dad from comic actor/screenwriter Dan Bucatinsky; tons of charm!
Grade: SOLID B
DOES THIS BABY MAKE ME LOOK STRAIGHT? CONFESSIONS OF A GAY DAD
Touchstone/Simon and Schuster
2012
Tags: LGBTQ Interest, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Parenting, Solid B Reviews
October 23, 2012
SILLY, DELIGHTFUL LITTLE fable about workaholic angels at Heaven, Inc. trying to engineer love between nerds.
Grade: SOLID B
WHAT IN GOD'S NAME
Little, Brown
2012
Tags: Humor, Novels, Religion and Spirituality, Solid B Reviews
October 22, 2012
ANGRY SPIRITS POSSESS the residents of a small Florida island in this spooky, complex paranormal thriller.
Grade: SOLID B
GHOST KEY
Tor
2012
Tags: Fantasy, Novels, Paranormal, Solid B Reviews, Thriller
October 19, 2012
CANDID MEMOIR OF a researcher’s surprising (to her) enchantment with her subject, Mormon founder Joseph Smith.
Grade: SOLID B
FALLING IN LOVE WITH JOSEPH SMITH: MY SEARCH FOR THE REAL PROPHET
Tarcher
2012
Tags: Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Solid B Reviews
October 14, 2012
GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF THE 2008 disaster on K2, the most dangerous Himalayan peak, focuses on two Sherpa climbers.
Grade: SOLID B
BURIED IN THE SKY: THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE SHERPA CLIMBERS ON K2'S MOST DANGEROUS DAY
W. W. Norton & Company
2012
Tags: Biography, Mountaineering, Nepal, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews
October 13, 2012
OPEN, EVOCATIVE MEMOIR by a woman who lost her mother in her late teens, her father in her twenties—powerful!
Grade: SOLID B
THE RULES OF INHERITANCE
Hudson Street Press
2012
Tags: Family, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews
October 11, 2012
CHARMING COMEDY OF MANNERS finds four Indian expats to the US dealing with midlife crises, culture clashes.
Grade: SOLID B
THE INVITATION
W. W. Norton & Company
2012
Tags: Novels, Solid B Reviews
October 10, 2012
GRANDLY TOPICAL APOCALYPSE in the Michael Crichton tradition features Mayan predictions of 2012 doom come true.
Grade: SOLID B
12.21: A NOVEL
The Dial Press
2012
Tags: Novels, Science Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Thriller
October 9, 2012
ENGAGING MEMOIR DETAILS an Englishman’s quest to reconcile the UK’s status symbols with his Pakistani heritage.
Grade: SOLID B
THE PERFECT GENTLEMAN: A MUSLIM BOY MEETS THE WEST
Grand Central
2012
Tags: England, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Social and Cultural Commentary, Solid B Reviews