Posts tagged with ‘B Plus Reviews’
May 16, 2013
GLORIOUS, DREAMLIKE SPANISH novel riffs on the life and death of poet García Lorca. Luminous new translation!
Grade: B PLUS
THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN AND POET FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA ASCENDS TO HELL
Yale University Press
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, LGBTQ Interest, Literary History, Novels, Spain
May 14, 2013
URBAN EXPLORATION, FROM the catacombs of Paris to the bridges of New York, captured in an exciting memoir.
Grade: B PLUS
HIDDEN CITIES: TRAVELS TO THE SECRET CORNERS OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST METROPOLISES---A MEMOIR OF URBAN EXPLORATION
Penguin/Tarcher
2013
Tags: Architecture, B Plus Reviews, Brazil, History, London, New York City, Non-Fiction, Paris, Rome, Russia, Ukraine
May 12, 2013
FIERCE, FUNNY, LOVING memoir of father and son—both creative, adventurous, and living with Asperger’s.
Grade: B PLUS
RAISING CUBBY: A FATHER AND SON'S ADVENTURES WITH ASPERGER'S, TRAINS, TRACTORS, AND HIGH EXPLOSIVES
Crown
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Memoirs, Mental Health and Illness, Neuroscience, Non-Fiction, Parenting
May 11, 2013
WRYLY FUNNY AUSTRIAN private-eye yarn mixes hardboiled detective tropes with a healthy shot of satire.
Grade: B PLUS
THE BONE MAN
Melville House
2013
Tags: Austria, B Plus Reviews, Mystery, Novels
May 9, 2013
DELICATE AND EVOCATIVE NOVEL tells a modern fairy tale of a professor and his elusive, beautiful young wife.
Grade: B PLUS
ORKNEY
Counterpoint
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels, Scotland
May 8, 2013
“MEDICINE IS BROKEN” argues Dr. Ben Goldacre in an expose of drug testing and marketing as parts of the issue.
Grade: B PLUS
BAD PHARMA: HOW DRUG COMPANIES MISLEAD DOCTORS AND HARM PATIENTS
Faber & Faber
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Health, Mental Health and Illness, Non-Fiction, Social and Cultural Commentary
May 7, 2013
HIGHLAND SLEUTH EXTRAORDINAIRE Hamish Macbeth solves his most complex crime yet. Wonderful Scottish detail!
Grade: B PLUS
DEATH OF YESTERDAY: A HAMISH MACBETH MYSTERY
Grand Central
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Mystery, Novels, Scotland, United Kingdom
May 6, 2013
NAZI CYBORG WARRIORS, warlock magic, and time travel combine in this brilliant, spooky World War II thriller.
Grade: B PLUS
NECESSARY EVIL
Tor
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Novels, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Thriller
May 5, 2013
IMAGES OF HAITI after the 2010 earthquake, from a US journalist trying to see past her outsider’s perspective.
Grade: B PLUS
FAREWELL, FRED VOODOO: A LETTER FROM HAITI
Simon & Schuster
2013
Tags: African Diaspora, B Plus Reviews, Environmentalism, Haiti, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Politics, Social and Cultural Commentary, Weather and Climate