July 14, 2010
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
Recommended by Junot Diaz, author of Oscar Wao.
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Category: FICTION
July 14, 2010
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon **** (of 4)
Hard to say if this book plays in Peoria, but Chabon prepares a perfect rendition of two genres: 1940s noir detective novels and Yiddish culture....
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Skeleton Man by Tony Hillerman *** (of 4)
What’s not to like about Hillerman. The man can wrte, he can educate, describe southwestern landscape and indian personalities, and he can write suspense without...
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Sinister Pig by Tony Hillerman **** (of 4)
One of Hillerman’s better stories. I feel like he is wrapping up his characters as he wraps up his writing career so this book has...
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Pompeii by Robert Harris ** (of 4)
About the three days before Mount Vesuvius blew its top and decimated the city of Pompeii as seen through the eyes of a conscientious aquarius...
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The Number One Lady’s Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith **** (of 4)
A very sweet, fun read about the Miss Marple of Botswana.
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The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith ** (of 4)
Not as good as the first in the series, The Number One Lady’s Detective Agency. It’s a sweet book, but the slow pace of the...
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Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell *** (of 4)
The first in the series. Kurt Wallender is a contemporary Swedish policeman who true to the genre of crime fiction is recently divorced, has trouble...
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Double Whammy by Carl Hiassen *** (of 4)
Vintage Hiassen. The murderers and bad guys are Florida tele-evangelists and unscrupulous land developers, assisted by rednecks with brains the size of ‘possums. The good...
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Devil’s Corner by Lisa Scottoline *** (of 4)
I once read that we read mysteries to learn about another place or time or culture as much as for the mystery itself. Devil’s Corner...
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