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From the Mouth of the Whale

February 4, 2012 by Drew

The Short Version: The story of Jonas Palmason, an incredibly learned poet and healer in 17th-Century Iceland.  He’s consistently betrayed by his fellow man – who are all afraid of his knowledge and his man-out-of-time nature.  It is a story of magic, of science – of a time when those two things weren’t necessarily a paradox. The Review: Sjón is apparently a big deal in Iceland.  He has won a number of prizes for his work – and I can understand […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Fiction, From the Mouth of the Whale, Historical, Literature, Sjón

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A Tale of Two Cities

January 22, 2012 by Drew

The Short Version: In the years leading up to the French Revolution, an old man named Manette is reunited with his estranged daughter many moons after having been imprisoned and forgotten about.  He, with his daughter, returns to England under the auspices of a man named Lorry.  As the daughter grows into a beautiful young woman, she meets and marries an dashing French emigre named Darnay.  As it turns out, Darnay is more than an emigre: he’s an aristocrat.  When […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: A Tale of Two Cities, charles dickens, Dickens 2012, Fiction, Historical, Literature

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11/22/63

November 26, 2011 by Drew

The Short Version: Jake Epping is an average thirty-something teacher in rural Maine in 2011.  However, after finding a ‘rabbit-hole’ in time, he ends up back in 1958 with the mission of stopping Lee Harvey Oswald from killing President Kennedy.  Except the past doesn’t want to be changed – and it will throw everything it can, including a lovely Texas librarian, in his way to stop him from reaching his goal.  Because despite his best intentions, history might be just fine as it […]

Categories: Fiction, Horror, Literature, Sci-Fi • Tags: 11/22/63, Fiction, Historical, Literature, Stephen King

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Wolf Hall

May 7, 2011 by Drew

The Short Version: The story of Thomas Cromwell, real-life figure from the reign of Henry VIII.  We get a brief glimpse of his life as a boy and then jump forward to his time with Cardinal Wolsey and his eventual rise to Henry’s chief advisor.  Meanwhile, in England, Henry is working to fracture the church, Anne Boleyn is working her way into his heart and bed, and most of the English court is playing a double game while they wait to […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Biography, Fiction, Hilary Mantel, Historical, The Rooster, The Tournament of Books 2010, Thomas Cromwell, Wolf Hall

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Water For Elephants

November 10, 2010 by Drew

I’m not big on books that end up being what I’ll call “book club books” – not necessarily Oprah’s specifically, though hers certainly does come to mind.  I mean, there are always exceptions: Franzen’s new book, for example, could be on anyone’s book club list and I’d still want to read it.  There’s just something about book club books that have a particular connotation of being… how do I put this… literature for people who don’t really read. However, I […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Fiction, Historical, Sara Gruen, Water For Elephants

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