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Ethiopian Fiction - Doctor and Nun3 comments

Matthew wrote 17 hours ago: Let me entice you with yet another book that I cannot put down despite the busy schedule toward the … more →

Tags: Books, Literature, Reading, abraham verghese, ARC, cutting for stone, Ethiopia-Fiction

[170] Little Bee: A Novel - Chris Cleave12 comments

Matthew wrote 1 day ago: “This is the moment. Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviv … more →

Tags: Books, Literature, Reading, ARC, Chris Cleave, Ethiopia-Fiction, Fiction, Little Bee, The Other Hand

Ian McEwan's "Atonement"

Nicola wrote 2 days ago: With all the hype surrounding this novel, especially after Joe Wright’s stunning outing with … more →

Tags: Review, Books, Literature, Ian McEwan, Briony Tallis, Nobel Prize, Novel, Bestseller

Real World

Kathryn wrote 3 days ago: Tile: Real World Japanese Title: リアルワルド Author: Kirino Natsuo (桐野夏生) Translator … more →

Tags: Popular Culture, Novels, Kirino Natsuo, OUT, philip gabriel, Japanese high school, Teen Angst, murder mystery, Domestic Violence

Reading Little Bee10 comments

Matthew wrote 4 days ago: Last call for the Books Giveaway to win the book of your choice by December 1. “I was realizi … more →

Tags: Books, Literature, Meme, Reading, ARC, Chris Cleave, The Little Bee, The Sunday Salon

[169] Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier14 comments

Matthew wrote 5 days ago: “She could make no more of it after the fifth reading than she had from the first, which was t … more →

Tags: American Literature, Books, Literature, Reading, American Civil War, Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain

Falling Man

Riot wrote 5 days ago: Review In spite of its relevancy to a major catastrophic event occuring in the past decade, Don DeLi … more →

Tags: Contemporary Fiction, Fiction Reviews, Reviews, 9/11, Don DeLillo, Estranged Fathers, New York City, NYC, September 11th

[168] The Dogs of Babel - Carolyn Parkhurst5 comments

Matthew wrote 2 weeks ago: “But reading these words now, they seem to me very sad. I see that they can also be words of k … more →

Tags: American Literature, Books, Literature, Reading, The Dogs of Babel, Carolyn Parkhurst, dog fiction

The Story of a Single Woman

Kathryn wrote 2 weeks ago: Title: The Story of a Single Woman Japanese Title: 或る一人の女の話 Author: Uno Chiyo (宇 … more →

Tags: Novels, Traditional Culture, amorous confessions, father complex, Femme Fatale, I-novel, Japanese feminism, Japanese women writers, joryū bungaku

ARC Teaser: Cutting For Stone4 comments

Matthew wrote 3 weeks ago: Advanced Reader’s Copy Publication: February 2009 Knopf, 560 pp. Marion and Shiva Stone are tw … more →

Tags: Books, Literature, Reading, ARC, cutting for stone, abraham verghese

[166] My Abandonment - Peter Rock11 comments

Matthew wrote 4 weeks ago: Advanced Reader’s Copy Publication: March 12, 2009 (revised) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt “ … more →

Tags: Books, Literature, Reading, American Literature, ARC, My Abandonment, peter rock

Review: "60 Indian Poets" edited by Jeet Thayil1 comment

Sharanya Manivannan wrote 1 month ago: There is no doubt about it: English poetry by Indians - even by Jeet Thayil’s broadened defini … more →

Tags: 60 Indian Poets, anthology, Bombay, Book Review, Books, Indian poetry, Indian poetry in English, Jeet Thayil, Literature

Linked Short Stories14 comments

Matthew wrote 1 month ago: I have repeatedly spoken about my not being well-read in short stories, which usually don’t l … more →

Tags: Books, Literature, Reading, American Literature, Alice Fulton, Linked Short Fiction, Short Story, The Nightingales of Troy, The Sunday Salon

Reading Salon: Booker Shortlist and Little Giant27 comments

Matthew wrote 1 month ago: I have finished the review of The White Tiger but I have set my heart to read all five other books … more →

Tags: Books, Literature, Reading, Reading Challenge, Amitav Ghosh, Aravind Adiga, Booker Prize 2008, goodreads, Sea of Poppins

[164] The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga6 comments

Matthew wrote 1 month ago: Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2008 “I watched him walk behind the bamboo bars. Black stripes … more →

Tags: Books, Literature, Reading Challenge, Reading, World Literature, Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, India, Booker Prize 2008

White Tiger? Booker Prize?4 comments

Matthew wrote 1 month ago: Despite critics from all over are shocked at Aravind Adiga’s surprise winning of the Book Priz … more →

Tags: Books, Literature, Reading, Aravind Adiga, Booker Prize, India, The White Tiger, World Literature

[163] The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows15 comments

Matthew wrote 1 month ago: “quite apart from my interest in their interest in reading, I have fallen in love with two men … more →

Tags: Books, Literature, Reading, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows, Guernsey, Epistolary Novel

The Venus Flytrap: Ways of Worship3 comments

Sharanya Manivannan wrote 1 month ago: It’s 8pm on a full moon night in October and the spray of the huge waves shoots above the barr … more →

Tags: the Venus Flytrap, Festival, Books, writing, Writers, Literature, Authors, Events, live literature

Guernsey14 comments

Matthew wrote 1 month ago: Guernsey is a British Crown dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy. Although t … more →

Tags: Books, Literature, Meme, Reading, The Sunday Salon, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Guernsey

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