Book Reviews
‘A Deadly Education’ Is anyone sick of reading about schools of magic? No? Excellent, because this is the best one yet. Naomi Novik already has a well-deserved reputation for compelling [...]
Read More →‘A Deadly Education’ Is anyone sick of reading about schools of magic? No? Excellent, because this is the best one yet. Naomi Novik already has a well-deserved reputation for compelling [...]
Read More →‘Humans’ Brandon Stanton’s gorgeous, heart-stopping social media pages, “Humans of New York,” is a huge sensation for a reason. Telling the stories of regular people — in all their messy, [...]
Read More →‘No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention’ It’s not a stretch to say that Netflix has, in the course of its existence, reinvented TV and, to a certain [...]
Read More →‘This is My America’ Tracey Beaumont has 267 days to save her father’s life. He is an innocent black man on death row, and 17-year-old Tracey will not stop until [...]
Read More →‘Mexican Gothic’ Secrets, unsettling atmospheres, haunted families and, most importantly, creepy old houses are in the recipe for a classic gothic novel. Dark, brooding and captivating, “Mexican Gothic” takes these [...]
Read More →‘Schrödinger’s Dog’ Following the death of his wife almost 20 years ago, Yanis Marès was left to raise his son, Pierre, now a college student and aspiring writer. A cab [...]
Read More →‘The Paris Hours’ by Alex George “The Paris Hours” tells the stories of four characters on a single day in 1927 and culminates when all cross paths at the end [...]
Read More →‘The Hidden Girl and Other Stories’ In difficult times, I have this odd tendency to reach for sad things. Music, movies, books and art that has a poignant, resonate depth [...]
Read More →‘18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics’ For fans of crime scene investigation television shows and those desiring to read inspirational [...]
Read More →‘A Girl, A Raccoon, and the Midnight Moon’ Ten-year-old Pearl Moran, born in the Lancaster Avenue branch of the NYC public library, where her mom is the circulation librarian, and [...]
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