‘Book Review’ Category
-
Love in “the house with four cats.” Hey, I live in a house with four cats.
0April 11, 2013 by Reader's Connection
Peter Trachtenberg’s book Another Insane Devotion: On the Love of Cats and Persons is divided more or less equally between those two loves, and the reader is always asking two questions:…
Category Book Review | Tags: Another Insane Devotion: On the Love of Cats and Persons, Gerald Stern, Peter Trachtenberg
-
The Vanishers
0April 4, 2013 by Reader's Connection
My friend Don has dreams that let him know what his friends are thinking. My own dream life has been rich and illuminating, jetting around through time and space, but…
Category Book Review | Tags: Heidi Julavits, The Vanishers
-
Looking back to 1984, and to, um, that other year . . .
0March 28, 2013 by Reader's Connection
Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 (©2011) is a historical novel, set in 1984. But some of the characters realize that they’ve slipped into some other sort of year, which one of them calls 1Q84. The…
Category Book Review | Tags: 1Q84, Haruki Murakami
-
Case Histories
1February 16, 2013 by Reader's Connection
I’m a blogging fool and I love this job, but it has its disadvantages. Right now, for example, I wish I didn’t have to hurry on to my next book…
Category Book Review | Tags: Case Histories, Kate Atkinson
-
A Chinese Book Review by Lin
0February 7, 2013 by Reader's Connection
Happy Chinese New Year! The Year of the Snake begins this Sunday, February 10th. My thanks go to Xiaolin Lin of the Lawrence Branch, who has written a review of…
Category Book Review | Tags: Cries in the Drizzle, Hu Han Yu Xi Yu, Yu Hua