http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=34&catid=55News Feed for - Book-reviewshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96568227&Channel_ID=34&Category_ID=552009-11-26T14:58:00[This review from the Monitor?s archives originally ran on July 9, 1982.] Despite the pervading gloom of Anne Tyler?s ninth novel, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is a joy to read in much the same way Christian Science Monitorhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96520375&Channel_ID=34&Category_ID=552009-11-26T01:33:00THE 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 Washington Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96520164&Channel_ID=34&Category_ID=552009-11-26T01:32:00EMPIRE OF LIBERTY A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 By Gordon Wood Oxford Univ. 778 pp. $35 In 1784 an English radical named Richard Price published an 88-page pamphlet called 'Observations on Washington Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96455211&Channel_ID=34&Category_ID=552009-11-26T01:08:00Sarah Crichton/Farrar Straus Giroux. 434 pp. $28 Antonin Scalia's influence is stronger than ever, according to Joan Biskupic in her new biography of the Supreme Court justice. Justice Anthony Kennedy Washington Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96516760&Channel_ID=34&Category_ID=552009-11-26T00:54:00Viking. 388 pp. $27.95 About 5,000 years ago, societies in ancient Sumeria, China and South America invented writing, and in the millennia since, the ability to read has propelled human intellectual and Washington Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96572733&Channel_ID=34&Category_ID=552009-11-26T15:29:00Good foundation in the basics of pharmacy �??Foundation in pharmacy practice�??, by Ben J. Whalley, Kate E. Fletcher, Sam E. Weston, Rachel L. Howard and Clare F. Rawlinson. Pp 224. Price £24.95. London: PJ Onlinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96571870&Channel_ID=34&Category_ID=552009-11-26T15:23:00Science and politics �??Pharmaceuticals and society: critical discourses and debates�??, by Simon J. Williams, Jonathan Gabe and Peter Davis. Pp viii+160. Price £19.99. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell; 2009. PJ Onlinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96571838&Channel_ID=34&Category_ID=552009-11-26T15:23:00Medical myths get a mauling �??Don�??t swallow your gum and other medical myths�??, by Aaron Carroll and Rachel Vreeman. Pp xi+222. Price £7.99. London: Penguin Books Ltd; 2009. ISBN 978 0 141 04336 PJ Onlinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96481671&Channel_ID=34&Category_ID=552009-11-26T09:15:00The explosive autobiography of GAA star Donal Og Cusack and a detailed account of how Ireland clinched Grand Slam glory are among the shortlisted titles for a prestigious book award. 'Come What May' telling Ireland On-Linehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96551690&Channel_ID=34&Category_ID=552009-11-26T08:05:00On the flat, foursquare pages of a printed book, Waldo H. Hunt could part the Red Sea. He could make hearts beat, lungs fill and bones rattle. He could make dinosaurs rear up, ships set sail and bats New York Timeshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96551495&Channel_ID=34&Category_ID=552009-11-26T08:00:00To celebrate Francis Bacon's centenary in 2009, Tate Britain mounted a retrospective exhibition that was subsequently shown at the Prado in Madrid and the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Bacon's theater New York Review of Bookshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96551494&Channel_ID=34&Category_ID=552009-11-26T08:00:00In April 1968, two weeks after the riots that devastated US cities following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the British Tory politician Enoch Powell (who as minister of health between 1960 New York Review of Bookshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96551489&Channel_ID=34&Category_ID=552009-11-26T08:00:00in the district court for the Southern District of New York, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers were scheduled to file a settlement to resolve their suit against Google for alleged New York Review of Bookshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96534984&Channel_ID=34&Category_ID=552009-11-26T04:35:00On the cover of I, ALEX CROSS, there is a small but effective blurb that states: �??A beloved Cross family member has been murdered.�?� Such a statement is more than enough to bring in faithful readers Book Reporterhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96534980&Channel_ID=34&Category_ID=552009-11-26T04:35:00As does the cover photo of an exploding locomotive atop a wooden railroad trestle, authors Clive Cussler and Justin Scott snatch the reader�??s attention from chapter one. Cussler arguably is best known Book Reporterhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96534976&Channel_ID=34&Category_ID=552009-11-26T04:35:00Algonquin 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 Book Reporterhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96534973&Channel_ID=34&Category_ID=552009-11-26T04:35:00Edward 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 Book Reporterhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96534968&Channel_ID=34&Category_ID=552009-11-26T04:35:00THERE GOES THE BRIDE: An Agatha Raisin Mystery Minotaur Books Mystery ISBN: 9780312387006 Detective Agatha Raisin is fit to be tied. Her ex-husband, James Lacey, is getting married to Felicity Bross-Tilkington, Book Reporterhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96542810&Channel_ID=34&Category_ID=552009-11-26T05:56:00You�??re a teenage girl �?? and if you�??re not, just pretend �?? and you�??re offered a romantic choice between (a) a whiny, morose, pale scarecrow who sulks all day, or (b) a ripped stud who�??s gregarious, Columbia Free-Timeshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96482216&Channel_ID=34&Category_ID=552009-11-25T16:11:00For 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 Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96476019&Channel_ID=34&Category_ID=552009-11-25T15:23:00More than 20 years ago, a group of seven women from Highland Park Hadassah founded �??The Bookies�?� book discussion group. Today the group is has 25 members. One thing to know about our book club: We Chicago Tribunehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96434768&Channel_ID=34&Category_ID=552009-11-25T13:02:00Mark Ravenhill's adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Nation will hold adults and children in thrall. Rating: * * * * The great Terry Pratchett, best known for his Discworld novels �?? which strike me as being Telegraphhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96464032&Channel_ID=34&Category_ID=552009-11-25T12:04:00Chloe 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 Telegraphhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96432851&Channel_ID=34&Category_ID=552009-11-25T01:26:00Partway through W.R. Burnett's 1956 noir 'It's Always Four O'Clock,' one of the central characters, a pianist named Royal Mauch, gives a disquisition about jazz. 'It's the only live art in the world today,' Los Angeles Timeshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96432820&Channel_ID=34&Category_ID=552009-11-25T01:25:00The 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 Los Angeles Times