Category: FICTION

April 1, 2012

The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz *** (of 4)

Sir Edmund Carstairs requests the aid of Sherlock Holmes when a member of the Flat Cap gang, an Irish thug from Boston, arrives in London...

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March 19, 2012

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell *** (of 4)

High marks for originality. The year is 1799, though it feels like the period is 150 years earlier than that, and the location is just...

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February 5, 2012

The Long Song by Andrea Levy **** (of 4)

This is the story of Miss July a house slave in Jamaica from her birth in the cane fields to her post-slavery restitution living in...

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February 5, 2012

Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English ** (of 4) by Natasha Solomons

Mr. Rosenblum and his wife Sadie arrive in England as German refugees in 1937. Mr. Rosenblum wants so desperately to assimilate that he keeps lists...

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January 7, 2012

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson *** (of 4)

The conclusion, and maybe the best, of the Swedish trilogy about men who hate women and abuse, cut apart, strangle, murder, beat, rape, and do...

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November 20, 2011

Tinkers by Paul Harding ** (of 4)

An old man lies in his bed surrounded by family and his memories as his life winds down like the clocks he used to fix. ...

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November 7, 2011

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach ** (of 4)

A book about and probably for young adults, and not a very good one at that, about a high school farm boy accepted at a...

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October 24, 2011

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett **** (of 4)

The Queen of England, nearing the age of 80, and bored with the routine of the Royal Wave, Royal Art opening, and Royal Ship inauguration...

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October 16, 2011

The Free World by David Bezmozgis *** (of 4)

A paean to the Russian virtue to endure. This set of Russians are Jewish emigres, among the first to be granted permission to escape the...

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September 18, 2011

The Case of the Man who Died Laughing by Tarquin Hall *** (of 4)

The second in the series of Tarquin Hall mysteries taking place in contemporary New Delhi. In this one our food-loving detective, Vish Puri, whose assistants...

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