Hi everyone! Sorry about my lack of book reviews last month. This review supplier is having a hard time keeping up with demand. Trust me, if the book interests me, I’ll get round to reading it.
Here’s what I’m still reading:
Bindle Pink Bruja by Desideria Mesa.
Anywhere You Run by Wanda M. Morris.
Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang.
Murder at Teal’s Pond by David Bushman and Mark T. Givens.
Liquid Shades of Blue by James Polkinghorn.
How to Kill Men and Get Away With It by Katy Brent.
Boy Parts by Eliza Clark.
And here’s a May release I still haven’t gotten to:
The Empty Kayak by Jodé Millman.
Here are all the June releases I have yet to consider:
Inside Threat by Matthew Quirk.
Marlon Lane and Raven’s Revenge by T.A. Willberg.
The Bucharest Legacy by William Maz.
The Game She Plays by Siena Sterling.
Stray Dogs by Richard John Parfitt.
The First Ladies by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray.
What Never Happened by Rachel Howzell Hall.
Plus other books released earlier. With one or two exceptions, I’ve started these and intend to return to them.
Racing the Light by Robert Crais. (Finished but not yet reviewed.)
Sometimes People Die by Simon Stephenson.
Who Killed Jerusalem? by George Brown.
We Love to Entertain by Sarah Strohmayer.
One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus.
All That is Mine I Carry With Me by William Landay.
And if you think this list is overwhelming bad, you should see the print books I have piled around my reading chair. :)
Plus reviews from my book review archives (when I had the time to write lengthier, more interesting reviews) and miscellaneous links:
‘And Mozart Was Taught’: Nurture, Nature or What?
(review originally posted on November 13, 2010)
At the risk of sounding clichéd, where do I start?
To begin with, AND MOZART WAS TAUGHT is in no way an average novel. It's well above average both in reading level and the ideas expressed. It is, in fact, metafiction -- a post-modern form of writing that most authors would probably find difficult to pull off without slipping into totally self-conscious lecturing mode.
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