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The Pickle Index

January 25, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: Zloty Kornblatt, ringleader of a shoddy circus, has been arrested on charges of sedition. His band of mismatched performers set out to save his life before he’s executed, through a strange totalitarian state full of very briny treats… The Review: I’m relentlessly fascinated by apps and app-books. Although I don’t believe anything will ever take the place of a good ol’ paper copy, displayed on the shelf and easily snatchable to flip through, I do think that […]

Categories: Fiction, Humor, Literature • Tags: app books, Apps, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Eli Horowitz, Fiction, FSG Originals, Humor, Literature, Reviews, Russell Quinn, Satire, So Many Damn Books, Sudden Oak, The Pickle Index, YYYHHHQQQ

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The Blind Owl

October 31, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: A young man descends into despair and paranoia after the mysterious death of a bewitching woman. But what of his story can be trusted? The Review: Here’s one of those books that might never cross your radar, as a Western reader – even a widely read one. And yet Hedayat is, by many accounts, the most important modern writer to come out of Iran. In fact, his work is still provocative enough that some of it is still banned […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: A Visit to October Country, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, D. P. Costello, Fiction, Iran, Iranian Literature, Literature, Reviews, Sadegh Hedayat, So Many Damn Books, The Blind Owl, Translation

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The English Patient

September 4, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: As World War II draws to a protracted and agonizing close in Europe, a young nurse opts to hole up in an Italian villa with her mysterious patient – a badly burned Englishman. A charming thief from her past and a quiet army sapper join her there, the four of them seeking not to solve anyone else’s mysteries but to discover the mysteries within themselves before the world catches up to them. The Review: I think “surprise” might […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, Literature, Michael Ondaatje, Reviews, So Many Damn Books, The English Patient, World War II

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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

April 20, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: Lelia Majnoun, a non-profit worker in Myanmar stumbles across… something weird. Suddenly she’s on the run from shadowy corporate interests. Meanwhile, former friends Mark Deveraux & Leo Crane (Mark now a self-help huckster and Leo a drug-addled trust-funder coming unhinged) are on an unseen collision course with each other, orchestrated by said shadowy corporate interests. The fate of the world and our freedom of information may be at stake. The Review: I remember the first time I read Fahrenheit […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Adventure, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Conspiracy, David Shafer, Fiction, Humor, Reviews, Science Fiction, So Many Damn Books, Speculative Fiction, Techno-thriller, Technology, The Biblioracle, Thriller, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

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The Tournament of Books 2015: Predictions

March 7, 2015 by Drew

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… it’s the most wonderful time of the year! It’s Tournament of Books time! It’s snuck up on me a little bit this year – but maybe that’s just because, astonishingly, I finished my reading in early February this year. I went 14 for 16 this year, opting not to tackle Sarah Waters’ tome-like The Paying Guests nor Elena Ferrante’s Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay.  I figure I’ll probably catch the Ferrante […]

Categories: Features • Tags: Features, Field Notes, Field Notes Brand, Field Nuts, Predictions, So Many Damn Books, The Morning News, The Tournament of Books, The Tournament of Books 2015

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Everything I Never Told You

January 26, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: Lydia is dead, but her family doesn’t know it just yet. When they do find out, though, the Lees begin to uncover all sorts of other secrets that they’ve all kept from one another – and realise the difficulty of keeping your own life healthy while supporting the lives of others. The Review: So I listened to this as an audiobook, for So Many Damn Books reasons, and I say this up front because I think it affected my […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: audiobook, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You, Family, Fiction, Literature, Reviews, So Many Damn Books, The Tournament of Books 2015

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2014 – The RB Lit Review

December 31, 2014 by Drew

And so, friends, we come to the end of another year.  So many books read, so much to recap – so let’s dive in. VITAL STATS, YEAR FOUR: Books Read: 137 Pages Read: 48,900 (an exact round number – weiiiird) Average Rating: 3.89 (a definite drop from the last two years, although this may reflect a somewhat broader scope of reading? or sharper critical thinking? who knows.) Highest Rating(s): – 6 out of 5 Jeff VanderMeer’s The Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance) was maybe the […]

Categories: Features • Tags: A Visit From The Goon Squad, Acceptance, Annihilation, Authority, Bad Books, Broken Monsters, China Miéville, Dani Lencioni, David Mitchell, DC Pierson, Edgar Cantero, Embassytown, Eric Setiawan, FSG Originals Series, good Books, Harper Perennial, Haruki Murakami, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Jeff Vandermeer, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jennifer Egan, Junot Diaz, Kafka on the Shore, Karen Russell, Katherine Faw Morris, Lauren Beukes, Lena Dunham, Meg Wolitzer, Murakami 2014, Nick Harkaway, Not That Kind of Girl, Of Bees and Mist, Olive Editions, Parties, Shirley Jackson, So Many Damn Books, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, The Bone Clocks, The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never had to, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The City and the City, The Interestings, The Marriage Plot, The Morning News, The People in the Trees, The Southern Reach Trilogy, The Supernatural Enhancements, The Tournament of Books 2014, Tigerman, Vonnegut 201x, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Woolf 2015, year in review, You Should Have Known, Young God

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Missing Person

November 13, 2014 by Drew

The Short Version: The war is over and Guy Roland has been working as a private detective – but that is not his real name.  Guy does not know who he was and he sets out, one last case before closing up shop, to figure out his past.  But can he really be any of these people – or could he be? The Review: Few, if any, of us knew about Mr. Modiano before the Nobel Prize announcement this year. Popular, but […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, French, Literature, Missing Person, Nobel Prize, Patrick Modiano, Reviews, So Many Damn Books, Translation

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The Beekeeper’s Apprentice or, On the Segregation of the Queen (Mary Russell #1)

November 4, 2014 by Drew

The Short Version: After Sherlock Holmes retired to the Sussex Downs to keep bees, his story might’ve ended. But when young Mary Russell nearly trips over him (her nose was in a book, he was lying on the ground watching said bees), the two recognize kindred intelligences and so Russell becomes his apprentice and eventually partner – just in time for a dastardly part of Holmes’ past to put not just Holmes but everyone he loves in great danger. The Review: There are […]

Categories: Fiction, Mystery • Tags: Bees, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, Laurie R. King, Mary Russell, Mystery, On the Segregation of the Queen, Reviews, Sherlock Holmes, So Many Damn Books, The Beekeeper's Apprentice

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