Tag: novel
group name: talkaboutbooks
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September 12, 2007 10:39 PM EDT --
Reviewed by Magdalena Ball
The Road
By Cormac McCarthy
Picador
ISBN: 9780330447546 , June 2007, 256 pages, paperback, A$22.95
It’s probably fair to call The Road a perfect novel. . . . more
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September 17, 2007 12:44 AM EDT --
Black Wind by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler; G.P. Putnam & Sons, 2004
I don't know if you've ever read one of Cussler's books in the Dirk Pitt series but I became . . . more
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June 24, 2008 05:43 PM EDT --
I'm getting pretty close to self publishing my first novel. Naturally, I would like to get some reviews of it to place on my website to help promote it. It seems like a fairly common thing for authors . . . more
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December 24, 2007 04:12 PM EST --
I may regret announcing this resolution to my fellow Gatherers, but I have officially challenged myself to read 50 books in 2008. Quick math shows that I'm signed up to ingest a book about every . . . more
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July 08, 2008 06:59 PM EDT --
Reviewed by Magdalena Ball
God of Speed
By Luke Davies
Allen & Unwin
April 2008, Paperback, 286pp, April 2008, $32.95, ISBN 978-1-74114-350-8
Luke Davies is the sort of writer . . . more
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December 19, 2007 05:53 PM EST --
My Inflatable Friend
by Gerald Everett Jones
La Puerta
ISBN 9780979486616, paperback, April 2007, 15.99
Let me be honest here. This is not a genre I'd normally read. I had to be dragged, . . . more
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February 04, 2008 11:19 AM EST --
For the record, I do not advocate hiring a hit man to avenge an ex-lover. I also don't recommend baking poison brownies and tasting them yourself. In fact, none of the retribution tools mentioned . . . more
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May 22, 2008 09:06 PM EDT --
Reviewed by Magdalena Ball
Tumbuktu
By Paul Auster
Faber
978-0-571-22909-3, Paperback, March 2008, 181pgs
For those used to the almost psychedelic complexity of Auster's novels, . . . more
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March 28, 2008 05:09 PM EDT --
Right from the moment I 'met' this book I was enchanted. The cover art is gorgeous and well done, but I digress. One should never judge a book solely by the cover art.
Caro Peacock has spun . . . more
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November 30, 2007 11:27 PM EST --
Not so much a book as a graphic novel, it's nonetheless an interesting read.
Yorrick (his father was a literature professor) is a young, unemployed, broke escape artist living in New York. His . . . more
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January 26, 2008 10:32 AM EST --
In the past, I've self published a couple of short story collections through Lulu. Given that the combined 'sales' (freebies for friends, mostly) were only about 30 copies, I knew better to . . . more
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February 04, 2007 10:28 PM EST --
My Sister's Keeper is a book about a family torn apart by a medical condition 1 daughter has. The book is about how the younger sister, who was created for the purpose of having a donor available that . . . more
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March 17, 2008 04:43 PM EDT --
For some reason-- granted strange and unknowable—I often latch onto some sort of symbol, talisman, or metaphor for my novel. For my first novel, Mail , it was anything postal: envelopes, . . . more
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August 29, 2007 09:52 PM EDT --
Anyone who's been near me recently knows I have lately become a big fan of "The Donald." Maass, that is, the New York literary uber agent; not the New York real estate one with the . . . more
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March 27, 2008 11:36 PM EDT --
I just finished reading the first book in E.E. Knight's awesome Vampire Earth series. It's called Way of the Wolf , and is set 60 years into the future where the world has been overtaken by . . . more
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August 26, 2008 07:57 PM EDT --
Thanks to Gather.com and my Borders gift card that I earned, one of the books I used it to buy was The Religion by Tim Willocks. It's an epic historical fiction novel about a man caught up in . . . more
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July 26, 2007 04:21 PM EDT --
Like most children his age, Thayne Davidson Miller, III, often said he hated his very existence. He didn't really hate it, but he didn't love it either. Thayne enjoyed some big advantages . . . more
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October 10, 2007 04:00 PM EDT --
Welcome to live chat with the educator and author of "Swimming across the Hudson," Joshua Henkin.
We will be discussing his newest novel, "Matrimony."
This is a great opportunity . . . more
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July 30, 2007 01:42 PM EDT --
Gather Member Martin Edhouse has crafted an enchanting children's tale for adults in his new book, The Exotic Adventure. This story, like so many stories from childhood, centers around a competition; . . . more
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July 30, 2008 01:34 AM EDT --
With the release of its new book, The Lace Reader, by Brunonia Barry, publisher William Morrow is giving away an all-expenses paid weekend for two to Salem, Massachusetts, for one lucky reader.
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