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Atticus Lish’s PREPARATION FOR THE NEXT LIFE – Bite The Book
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Book Reviews and Views. May 17, 2015. May 28, 2015. Atticus Lish’s PREPARATION FOR THE NEXT LIFE. This is one of those books that immediately after you start reading you know you are in the hands of a wonderful writer. Atticus Lish has delivered a delicately savage critique on post-9/11 America and the so-called American Dream in a beautiful love story of an illegal immigrant and an American soldier recently returned from Iraq. Classification: Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945). Preparation fo...
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Ben Aaronovitch’s WHISPERS UNDER GROUND – Bite The Book
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Book Reviews and Views. February 28, 2015. Ben Aaronovitch’s WHISPERS UNDER GROUND. I cannot get enough of this series! It is such a wicked combination of history, police procedural and of course magic. This time we explore London’s underground where not only are secrets buried but something DC Peter Grant can’t even imagine. This series is building nicely and with each new case Peter encounters more unanswered questions begin to build including who is the faceless man? Publisher: Orion Publishing Co.
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Drew Daywalt & Oliver Jeffers’ THE DAY THE CRAYONS CAME HOME – Bite The Book
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Book Reviews and Views. May 21, 2015. August 22, 2015. Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers’ THE DAY THE CRAYONS CAME HOME. Following on from the phenomenally brilliant. The Day The Crayons Quit. Comes the sequel. The crayons are back…and they are still not happy. This time around Duncan has to deal with the lost and forgotten crayons. The broken, chewed and melted crayons. And they are all, quite rightly, even more upset! Oliver Jeffers’ wonderful illustrations are typically vibrant, absurd and brillia...
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Michael Herr’s DISPATCHES – Bite The Book
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Book Reviews and Views. April 3, 2015. Michael Herr’s DISPATCHES. This is one of the best pieces of war writing I have ever read, fiction or nonfiction and is an outstanding and terrifying piece of journalism. Michael Herr captures, distills and transmits to the reader the pure essence of the Vietnam War. It’s hypocrisy, it’s insanity, it’s music, it’s soul. The complete and utter, unadulterated complicated mess. Format: Paperback (198mm x 129mm x 19mm). Country of Publication: United Kingdom. You might ...
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Roxane Gay’s BAD FEMINIST – Bite The Book
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Book Reviews and Views. March 12, 2015. March 12, 2015. Roxane Gay’s BAD FEMINIST. Was an unforgettable novel that was brutally honest, confronting and powerfully written. In this brilliant collection of essays Roxane Gay applies this same style to the modern world in essays that cover everything from gender, race, politics and popular mainstream culture. I most enjoyed her deconstructions of books, music and movies; in particular. Her perspective on and the way she conveys this in her essays is nuanced ...
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Jamie Kornegay’s SOIL – Bite The Book
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Book Reviews and Views. February 18, 2015. February 18, 2015. Peppered with a great cast of odd and unusual characters, including a bizarrely injured woodsman and a sex-addicted Sheriff’s Deputy, Korengay delivers a novel above and beyond the Coen Brothers comparisons. With just the right amount of wicked humour Korengay tells the story of a man driven to the brink, a brink only he can see coming, which he is determined to slip down. Classification: Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945). Click to...
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Ben Aaronovitch’s BROKEN HOMES – Bite The Book
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Book Reviews and Views. March 16, 2015. Ben Aaronovitch’s BROKEN HOMES. The fourth instalment in the Peter Grant books continues the upward trajectory for this fantastic series, figuratively and somewhat literally. This time the case involves a repository for possible magic truly terrifying; London’s architecture. Until then if you have read this series, DO IT! Format: Paperback (198mm x 132mm x 24mm). Publisher: Orion Publishing Co. Country of Publication: United Kingdom. Posted in Book Reviews. Fill in...
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Book Diets (Not Diet Books) – Bite The Book
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Book Reviews and Views. April 6, 2015. April 4, 2015. Book Diets (Not Diet Books). Originally posted on Boomerang Books. Book Diets (Not Diet Books). There has been a lot of controversy recently about different diet books out on the market and while eating healthy is very important we also mustn’t forget to feed out minds. So I’ve come up with a few Book Diets based on popular fad diet books: []. Posted in Book News. Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window).
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Kazuo Ishiguro’s THE REMAINS OF THE DAY – Bite The Book
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Book Reviews and Views. April 13, 2015. April 18, 2015. Kazuo Ishiguro’s THE REMAINS OF THE DAY. I have not seen the film based on this book and after all the guffaw over Ishiguro’s departure with. I wanted to read the novel most people seem to consider his best work. (Or at least their favourite Ishiguro novel). Was a departure from Ishiguro’s other works needs to have a re-read of his books. Memory is a strong running theme throughout the three books I have read as is a nostalgia for what is being ...
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