‘Book Review’ Category
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Glaciers
0May 17, 2013 by Reader's Connection
I bought Glaciers, the 2012 novel by Alexis M. Smith, because words of praise by Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia, appear on the back cover. No doubt I would have…
Category Book Review | Tags: Alexis M. Smith, Glaciers
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His Bright Abyss (with added link to compensate for weakness of blogpost)
0May 14, 2013 by Reader's Connection
Note: This review was perhaps the least adequate of any I’ve written, so a link to the book’s first chapter has been added below. I just finished reading Christian Wiman’s…
Category Book Review | Tags: Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
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Your Afterlife is Now Downloadable!
0May 9, 2013 by Reader's Connection
You might as well brace yourselves. After you die, you may be a background character in the dreams of others. You know those people in your dreams? Where did you…
Category Book Review | Tags: David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
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I predict that Far From the Tree will win the Pulitzer Prize on Monday.
0April 13, 2013 by Reader's Connection
I’m not in the habit of sloshing coffee on my library books, thus forcing myself to pay for them and bond with them, but I seem to have made an…
Category Book Review | Tags: Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree : Parents Children and the Search for Identity