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DNF: The Dreaded Did-Not-Finish

March 18, 2016

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Much like the political noise that is sweeping our country right now there is a topic in the bookish world that tends to split itself into party lines. For some it is something they are proud of and ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature, Reading Tagged: did not finish, dnf, mini-reviews

The Tsar of Love and Techno

March 7, 2016

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  For art to be the chisel that breaks the marble inside us, the artist must first become the hammer.    The Tsar of Love and Techno begins in 1937 Leningrad with a nameless censor. A man ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: cultural, historical fiction, Hogarth, Russia, short stories

Hunters in the Dark

January 13, 2016

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  Lawrence Osborne was a travel journalist and currently lives in Bangkok, but his latest novel Hunters in the Dark is not one that will inspire readers to head to Southeast Asia. Instead, it ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary fiction, cultural, Hogarth, literary, Southeast Asia

The Book of Strange New Things

October 27, 2014

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  Pastor Peter Leigh is being given the spiritual chance of a lifetime: he’s been chosen to travel billions of miles to a new planet and bring Christianity to its inhabitants. The planet is ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, Hogarth, science fiction

Summer House with Swimming Pool

July 23, 2014

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  Author Herman Koch has created the doctor we’re all afraid of in his new novel, Summer House with Swimming Pool. Not a horrific needle wielding monster but something worse: the one who pretends to ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: American life, book clubs, family, Hogarth, literary, mystery

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