It’s one thing to write about the marrow of the bones — there’s a lot of research out there to back me up when I’m describing bones and blood and stem cells. It’s another thing to write about the marrow of the self. The marrow of the bones is home to your stem cells. The...
Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova’s son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it’s too late. Shelby Van Pelt’s debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a...
Sophie Kerr has the misfortune to be left with the chore of explaining those fingerprints, which she does in ten pages of near shaggy-dog tale telling by Glenda that serve more to achieve her word count goal than to facilitate a neat happy ending to the book. In sum, The Woman Accused ...
of course, in the general surreality and obscurity. More deeply, though,The Wordaddresses the elemental, primitive origin of language, its descent into adspeak and legalese, and a need to return to “a raw and passionate tongue
Lochconsists of twenty images facing each other across eleven uncut leaves. The roundel vignettes capture a sense of wind and light moving across the loch’s surface. These roundels standing in their white space naturally differ from those inWild Wood. They are more similar to those in a work...
The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith is the seventh outing for Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott’s private detective agency. When they are approached by the family of a young man feared to have been brainwashed by a religious cult, Robin goes undercover at Chapman’s farm in Norfolk to fi...
“This is what I miss. Bob Talbert read the book in 1988 and Lynn Hogan’s mom picked it up in 1993. It was always interesting to see who had similar reading habits.” Yes, that is the Privacy Police you hear pounding on your door. Posted in Books AI Snake Oil Posted on October...
the police trace his movements and eventually show up at May's New York City apartment. The three have good reason to worry that their seemingly innocuous note could cause negative publicity, ruin relationships, destroy careers. They've experienced similar chain reactions before: when Kelsey was ...
The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith is the seventh outing for Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott’s private detective agency. When they are approached by the family of a young man feared to have been brainwashed by a religious cult, Robin goes undercover at Chapman’s farm in Norfolk to fi...
She can be on her best behavior for a weekend, and she may have time to complete the next Loretta Starling mystery. But a storm is moving in, and a surprise guest is on the boat when she boards for the last trip to the island. That is when the chaos begins—chaos similar to the ...