Scott:I’ve read the entire Spenser Series by Robert B. Parker three times, and each visit is like coming home to an old friend. Quick-witted dialogue peppered with humor and a centered sense of moral justice make this series noteworthy. Highly recommended. Ruth:I’m currently rereading the...
intertwining past and present and throwing light on a neglected aspect of World War One.’ In accepting his award, William Brodrick said “I find myself in the hinterland of speechlessness… I would like to dedicate the award to the memory of Harry Patch and the generation he...
so I need to clean that up. Like the Pargin book above, I’ve set out to read this “next week” so many times that it’s ridiculous. The next time that I set that goal, I’m sticking to it.
however, isavailable from Amazon. Anderson’s second novelThieves Like Us, which was filmed by Robert Altman in the 1970s, has been included in the Library of America’s volumeCrime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 1940s.
, 1975; No Fool Like an Old Fool, 1976; The First Eleven, 1977; Or Where a Young Penguin Lies Screaming, 1977; The New Ewart, 1982; The Young People’s Guide to His Toes, 1985; The Complete Little Ones, 1986; Late Pickings, 1987; plus a section entitled New and Uncollected—...
However, while the case seems solid, when Lilia makes her way to court for a first appearance, she hears Spenser’s voice and flashes back to an event she had hoped to bury deep in her past. Now, Lila must get past the trouble that left her paralysed in court and ensure that she ...
What makes authors like these inextricably associated with a particular state is not simply the matter of their having been born there or choosing to live there. The connection, from a writerly standpoint, is deeper than that—their work, nearly all of it, is set in "their" state. ...
Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene The Bower of Bliss and The Garden of Adonis. Ian Mackean contrasts two sections of The Faerie Queene to show how Spenser used them to develop themes such as art versus nature, appearances versus reality, and lust versus love. (2,000 words) Sir Philip Sidn...
First, there are the humorously cynical army novels (like the 08/15 series about the misadventures of Gunner Asch), written from 1955 onwards. Then the historical thrillers, usually based in a military context (Night of the Generals, which appeared in 1963; Officer Factory, also 1963; The ...
and heirs like Howard Buechner (who Siepe delightfully describes as being seemingly“motivated by the pure pleasure of fabrication”). When turning to novels and comics, Siepe notes how in so many of these types of fiction, Wewelsburg and its inhabitants take on an 18thcentury Gothic quality,...