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the crime segments: January 2015
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The crime fiction and mystery portion of the year in books: a casual reader's journal. Thursday, January 29, 2015. Reading Ripley, part one: The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith. Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 1992. He was versatile, and the world was wide! Point of view. Rereading this novel taught me a valuable lesson - when accepting an author's invitation to enter the mind of a paranoid psychopath, you may not like where things are heading, but you've made the choice to be party to his. To eff...
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the crime segments: Crystal Nights, by Dorte Hummelshoj Jakobsen
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The crime fiction and mystery portion of the year in books: a casual reader's journal. Sunday, June 28, 2015. Crystal Nights, by Dorte Hummelshoj Jakobsen. Candied Crime, 2015. Ebook, sent to me by the author (thank you! So I bought a copy . And so grows the TBR pile. I think that Ms. Jakobsen really understands the point that crime fiction should be used to examine people - and that she shows this deftly throughout her book. I will say that I was a little iffy about the story when Niels started ...In wh...
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the crime segments: back to the past: #13: The Will and the Deed, by Dorothy Ogburn
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The crime fiction and mystery portion of the year in books: a casual reader's journal. Wednesday, June 17, 2015. Back to the past: #13: The Will and the Deed, by Dorothy Ogburn. Originally published 1935, Dodd, Mead and Company. Paperback (reproduction of original). I'll just say that most of this book was entertaining, but when it came down to the last few chapters, I would have poured myself something very strong to take away the reading pain had it not been so early in the day. Oy! 1931; Ra-Ta-Plan,.
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the crime segments: August 2014
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The crime fiction and mystery portion of the year in books: a casual reader's journal. Sunday, August 17, 2014. Two reads on the existential plane: Savage Night, by Jim Thompson and The Panda Theory, by Pascal Garnier. I'm sort of inundated with family for the rest of the month so I don't have time for my usual chatty reviews, but I've finished a couple of good ones I'd like to pass along. Actually, I don't really have time right now to even post a review, so here are the titles:. Links to this post.
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the crime segments: February 2015
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The crime fiction and mystery portion of the year in books: a casual reader's journal. Saturday, February 14, 2015. A double blast from the past: The Punt Murder, by Aceituna Griffin and Miasma, by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding. Back to exploring more obscure women crime writers, I ran across two books that have luckily been reprinted to make them widely available to modern readers. One, The Punt Murder,. Is set in Britain's interwar period and Miasma. One of the most interesting things he states is that.
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the crime segments: December 2014
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The crime fiction and mystery portion of the year in books: a casual reader's journal. Friday, December 26, 2014. To allow those people an existence, a life" - Escape, by Dominique Manotti. Arcadia Books, 2014. Originally published as L'evasion,. Translated by Amanda Hopkinson and Ros Schwartz. If I want to try and salvage our past, there's only one thing left for me to do. Write novels.". In the little bio blurb at the front of this novel it says that Dominique Manotti's. Put my trust in Carlo, listen t...
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The Bowed Bookshelf: Morphine by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Current fiction and nonfiction reviewed. Friday, July 17, 2015. Morphine by Mikhail Bulgakov. Mikhail Bulgakov was trained as a doctor and went to the front in the First World War where he was badly injured twice. [ Wiki. Series, is that account. Bulgakov was raised as a Christian (his father was a priest), one of seven children. He began publishing stories and plays after several years working in war-torn areas, but his work was often repressed by censures. He became “a satirist at a time ...You can buy...
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The Bowed Bookshelf: Elegy for Kosovo by Ismail Kadare, translated by Peter Constantine
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Current fiction and nonfiction reviewed. Thursday, July 30, 2015. Elegy for Kosovo by Ismail Kadare, translated by Peter Constantine. These tales bring to mind the Greek tragedies," [the Great Lady] said in a low voice. “They are of the same diamond dust, the same seed.". What are these Greek tragedies? The lord of the castle asked. Ismail Kadare, born in 1936, is Muslim by birth in an area of Albania that was primarily Christian. In a 1998. In a review published in Britain’s. Suggests in a review for th...
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The Bowed Bookshelf: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Current fiction and nonfiction reviewed. Monday, July 27, 2015. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. Bulgakov saw war. He was sent to the front by the Red Cross just out of medical school in 1913, when he was twenty-two years old. He was badly injured, twice, and suffered such pain that, after a stint as a provincial doctor after the war, he became a morphine addict for a two-year period. The horror of that addiction is recalled in his short fictional monograph, Morphine. The Master and Margarita.
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The Bowed Bookshelf: March 2015
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Current fiction and nonfiction reviewed. Tuesday, March 24, 2015. My Struggle Volume II by Karl Ove Knausgaard. We are almost finished with Volume Two of Knausgaard’s six-volume memoir before we learn what Knausgaard is about with this huge, unwieldy thing he calls a novel. Does that not mean that art is subjective, and in the eyes of the beholder only? Since reading Min Kamp Volume One. We must ask ourselves why we care. How much of this is fiction and does it matter? Karl Ove tells us he read his book ...
