| "The Good Soldiers," | | Washington Post - 6 Hours ago | | THE GOOD SOLDIERS By David Finkel Farrar Straus Giroux. 287 pp. $26 David Finkel faced an unenviable task in writing his on-the-ground account of war in Iraq. Not only did he come very close to being | | | | Add Comment |
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| I, ALEX CROSS by James Patterson | | Book Reporter - 3 Hours ago | | On the cover of I, ALEX CROSS, there is a small but effective blurb that states: â??A beloved Cross family member has been murdered.â? Such a statement is more than enough to bring in faithful readers | | | | Add Comment |
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| THE WRECKER by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott | | Book Reporter - 3 Hours ago | | As does the cover photo of an exploding locomotive atop a wooden railroad trestle, authors Clive Cussler and Justin Scott snatch the readerâ??s attention from chapter one. Cussler arguably is best known | | | | Add Comment |
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| A FRIEND OF THE FAMILY by Lauren Grodstein | | Book Reporter - 3 Hours ago | | Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Fiction ISBN: 9781565129160 By all accounts, Doctor Peter Dizinoff is living the American dream: he has risen from humble beginnings in Yonkers, New York, where his dad | | | | Add Comment |
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| NEW YORK by Edward Rutherfurd | | Book Reporter - 3 Hours ago | | Edward Rutherfurd, whose sweeping historical epics introduced us to 10,000 years of ancient SARUM and thousands of years of LONDON, now turns his historical pen to that young upstart of the west --- New | | | | Add Comment |
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| Je vous salue, Paris Review | | Guardian.co.uk - 16 Hours ago | | For 56 years, this giant among 'little magazines' has provided intimate reports on how great writers go about their jobs In the literary world, there is one kind of interview that's as rare and precious | | | | Add Comment |
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| Chicagoland book clubs: The Bookies | | Chicago Tribune - 16 Hours ago | | More than 20 years ago, a group of seven women from Highland Park Hadassah founded â??The Bookiesâ? book discussion group. Today the group is has 25 members. One thing to know about our book club: We | | | | Add Comment |
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| Genre: Romance Novels | | Telegraph - 20 Hours ago | | Chloe Rhodes curls up with Marian Keyes, Jackie Collins and Cecelia Ahern The Brightest Star in the Sky by Marian Keyes 611pp, Michael Joseph, 18.99 Buy now for 16.99 (PLUS 1.25 p&p) from Telegraph Books | | | | Add Comment |
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| 'A Good Fall' by Ha Jin | | Los Angeles Times - 11/25/2009 | | The immigrant experience in contemporary America. By Julia M. Klein November 22, 2009 Text Size A Good Fall Stories Ha Jin Pantheon: 246 pp., $24.95 Figuring out what to keep, what to adopt and what to | | | | Add Comment |
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| 'Memoir' by Ben Yagoda | | Los Angeles Times - 11/25/2009 | | Getting to the bottom of the memoir genre. Text Size Memoir A History Ben Yagoda Riverhead: 292 pp., $25.95 In 2006, when James Frey's 'A Million Little Pieces' was exposed as a fraud, the news was met | | | | Add Comment |
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| Book Review: This Time Is Different | | Guru Focus - 16 Hours ago | | I love economic history books. The book that I am reviewing tonight is different because unlike most economic history books, it is mainly empirical rather than mainly anecdotal. Donâ??t get me wrong, | | | | Add Comment |
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| 'A Dream of Undying Fame' by Louis Breger | | Los Angeles Times - 11/24/2009 | | A Dream of Undying Fame How Freud Betrayed His Mentor and Invented Psychoanalysis Louis Breger Basic Books: 148 pp., $22.95 Psychoanalysis has always been a mixed bag, Louis Breger notes. On the one hand, | | | | Add Comment |
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| Disco Schtick | | London Review of Books - 8 Hours ago | | For the 30th anniversary gala of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art on 14 November, Francesco Vezzoliâ??s Ballets Russes Italian Style (The Shortest Musical You Will Never See Again) featured | | | | Add Comment |
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| Recommended events this week | | Chicago Tribune - 11/23/2009 | | For week of Nov. 28 through Dec. 4. Saturday reporter Rick Kogan and photographer Charles Osgood () will discuss and sign copies of their latest book, at 2 p.m. at , 7419 W. Madison, in Forest Park. | | | | Add Comment |
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