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6 days ago

Book Review: “Set for Life” by Andrew Ewell

Publish or Perish There seems to be a new trend lately in novels being published, usually by first-time male writers, about men who are, in some capacity, outright failures as human beings. In The Golem of Brooklyn, a young man gets stoned and creates a giant golem out of clay…

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Book Review: “Set for Life” by Andrew Ewell
Book Review: “Set for Life” by Andrew Ewell
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Nov 19

Book Review: “One of the Good Guys” by Araminta Hall

Bad Boy — One of the writers that I keep an eye out for is Araminta Hall. She’s simply an author who knows how to write a crackling good thriller. Her earlier novel, Our Kind of Cruelty, was a shocking indictment of male violence against women and stalking. It was a memorable book…

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Book Review: “One of the Good Guys” by Araminta Hall
Book Review: “One of the Good Guys” by Araminta Hall
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Nov 14

Book Review: “American Caliph” by Shahan Mufti

The Siege — Shahan Mufit’s work of narrative journalism, American Caliph, is — fortuitously or not — required reading during the latest Israel-Palestine war. Its timing as a trade paperback release couldn’t have come at a so-called better time in terms of being a relevant read if one can say that of a…

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Book Review: “American Caliph” by Shahan Mufti
Book Review: “American Caliph” by Shahan Mufti
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Nov 11

Book Review: “Western Lane” by Chetna Maroo

A Short Book(er) — When the Booker Prize is awarded later in November 2023, it may go to a fairly short book. Sarah Bernstein’s Study for Obedience can be read in a sitting or so, and If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery runs, if memory serves correctly, roughly 250 pages. Add to this…

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Book Review: “Western Lane” by Chetna Maroo
Book Review: “Western Lane” by Chetna Maroo
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Oct 15

Book Review: “The Mystery Guest” by Nita Prose

Molly Maid Part Two — The following isn’t meant to be churlish in the least, but The Mystery Guest is, in many ways, an unnecessary book. It is a sequel to Nita Prose’s bestselling The Maid. That book was, in many ways, so perfect that it didn’t require a sequel. It had a “happily ever…

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Book Review: “The Mystery Guest” by Nita Prose
Book Review: “The Mystery Guest” by Nita Prose
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Oct 9

Book Review: “The Hollow Kind” by Andy Davidson

Hollow-een — It’s October 2023, and that means only one thing: Halloween is just around the corner. I’m guessing that this makes for a prime season of horror book offerings from publishers, and the paperback publication of Andy Davidson’s The Hollow Kind is one of those books. It’s part of a genre…

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Book Review: “The Hollow Kind” by Andy Davidson
Book Review: “The Hollow Kind” by Andy Davidson
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Oct 7

Book Review: “Nobility in Small Things” by Dr. Craig R. Smith

The Noble Narrative? — Dr. Craig R. Smith may not be a household name, but among the American medical community, he’s quite famous. In 2004, he performed successful quadruple bypass heart surgery on former U.S. President Bill Clinton and attended to complications from that surgery the following year. This book goes into some detail…

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Book Review: “Nobility in Small Things” by Dr. Craig R. Smith
Book Review: “Nobility in Small Things” by Dr. Craig R. Smith
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Oct 2

Book Review: “The City of the Living” by Nicola Lagioia

In Cold Blood — When you think of Rome, Italy, you might think of the city as a bit of a tourist trap: a place to visit the ancient Coliseum or see some statues of Michelangelo. In Nicola Lagionia’s hands, however, this version of the city is turned upside down. His latest work —…

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Book Review: “The City of the Living” by Nicola Lagioia
Book Review: “The City of the Living” by Nicola Lagioia
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Oct 1

Book Review: “Dracula” by Bram Stoker

The Vampires of Eastern Europe — I grew up between 1979 and 1982 in a small hamlet in eastern Ontario, Canada, called Wilno. The burg is known for two things nationally and internationally. First, it is home to Canada’s first Polish settlement. Second, it is a haven for vampires. I’m not kidding! While most residents of…

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Book Review: “Dracula” by Bram Stoker
Book Review: “Dracula” by Bram Stoker
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Sep 14

Book Review: “Deliver Me” by Elle Nash

Deliver Us from Evil — Karl Ove Knausgaard wrote in his recent collection of essays, In the Land of the Cyclops, that he used to enjoy reading detective novels and thrillers. However, he came to realize that these stories don’t have the same literary heft as the classics of literature. From what I can recall…

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Book Review: “Deliver Me” by Elle Nash
Book Review: “Deliver Me” by Elle Nash
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Zachary Houle

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Book critic by night, technical writer by day. Follow me on Twitter @zachary_houle.

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