Lagan LoveAuthor: Peter MurphyA debut novel concerned with 1980’s Ireland, Lagan Love depicts Dublin in all its nuances and moods through the eyes of French Canadian painter Janice Tremblay, traveling to Dublin to attend Trinity College. Janice meets Sinead at Trinity and pours out her homesickness to her cynical Irish acquaintance. Enter one of Dublin’s rising poets, Aidan Greeley, who has just come off dating Sinead. Aidan and Janice find themselves symbiotically attached, as Aidan fancies ... continue reading...
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Book Reviews & Giveaway: The Taint of Midas
The Taint of Midas Author: Anne ZouroudiSpellbinding. And I do not use the word lightly. Anne Zouroudi’s “The Taint of Midas – A Seven Deadly Sins Mystery” overcomes her excellent plot and delightful characters with an elegance of prose that undulates and mesmerizes like a spot on sunset. Simply spellbinding!This is an author commanding language and plot, very much like Susan Howatch in “The High Flyer.” Zouroudi spears us into characters that dwell on in our minds and trap us into their ... continue reading...
Book Reviews: Centuries of June
Centuries of June: A NovelAuthor: Keith DonohueAfter Kate Atkinson’s “Started Early Walked The Dog,” I recognized the title of Keith Donohue’s Centuries of June as another Emily Dickinson line. I wish I had the enthusiasm for Centuries as I did for Started Early. I love Flann O’Brien, and absurdist and post modernism Irish fiction and plays. By producing a play of mime, with only a description of the visual action, and no dialogue, Beckett denies Joycean language and reiterates O’Brien’s ... continue reading...
Book Reviews & Giveaway: Now You See Her
Now You See HerAuthors: James Patterson & Michael LedwidgeTake Swimsuit, times it by 3, throw in Tick Tock and Along Came a Spider and your sum total = Now You See Her. Patterson and Ledwidge indulge themselves in one blast - then two - then three. This novel will knock your proverbial socks off. Maestro Patterson, once again collaborating with Master Ledwidge, travels back down the graveled road to early days, with a thriller that once again ensures his title as The Best!Nina Bloom is a ... continue reading...
Book Reviews: Witches of East End
Witches of East End (The Beauchamp Family)Author: Melissa De La CruzThere is a township in a part of Long Island untouched by neither time nor sophistication. North Hampton lies fallow and magnificent on the Atlantic coast, its families long generational and tight knit. Across from the tiny community lies Gardiners Island, long deserted. The Manor House, called Fair Haven, on Gardiners Island is special. Owned by generations of absentee owners, the Gardiners, Fair Haven holds the seam to ... continue reading...
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