booksforthebeach.blogspot.com
June 2012
http://booksforthebeach.blogspot.com/2012_06_01_archive.html
Thursday, June 7, 2012. THE 2012 GREAT BOOKS FOR THE BEACH LIST: TOP PICKS. Top picks" are books recommended by a critical mass of our contributors. This year's are divided by fiction and non-fiction. We also include hundreds of additional selections in our fiction, non-fiction and old favorites lists below. The Art of Fielding. 8220;Very tender story of several students (two of whom are on the college baseball team), a college president, and his daughter. Intelligent and well-written.”. The author's des...
booksforthebeach.blogspot.com
May 2011
http://booksforthebeach.blogspot.com/2011_05_01_archive.html
Saturday, May 28, 2011. WELCOME TO THE 2011 EDITION OF "BOOKS FOR THE BEACH". Thanks to an utterly amazing response by our contributors (who seem to have carved out a good deal of reading time over the past year) we have a very robust list. It's divided into four sections. You can navigate to them through all the intuitive ways on this page, or simply click on these links:. Older Fiction/Favorites from Previous Lists. Friday, May 27, 2011. THE 2011 GREAT BOOKS FOR THE BEACH LIST: TOP PICKS. Dexter and Em...
booksforthebeach.blogspot.com
THE 2013 GREAT BOOKS FOR THE BEACH LIST: NEWER FICTION
http://booksforthebeach.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-2013-great-books-for-beach-list.html
Thursday, May 30, 2013. THE 2013 GREAT BOOKS FOR THE BEACH LIST: NEWER FICTION. The "newer fiction" list contains books published in the past few years. They might not be "top picks," but many newer fiction books reappear as top picks in subsequent years, so don't let that deter you! We inlcude contributors' comments, as always, and where we had only a title by way of recommendation, we have filled in with Amazon or other sources. Put on another show! By Ali Smith. This is one. By Mary Louise Kelly.
writemeinred.blogspot.com
Write Me in Red: A Recipe for a Broken Heart
http://writemeinred.blogspot.com/2011/11/recipe-for-broken-heart.html
Write Me in Red. Friday, November 18, 2011. A Recipe for a Broken Heart. 2 beating hearts, one warm, one cold. 1 more cruel word. 2 weeks of waiting. 10 days of bitterness. 1 week of insecurity. 1 day of longing. 1 day of self-pity (could be substituted by complaints). 1 day of anger. 1 day of recrimination (this can continue over the next two days). 1 day of indecision. 1 day of hardened resolve. 1 day of silence. Love and pride in equal measures. Tried and tested over centuries. View my complete profile.
writemeinred.blogspot.com
Write Me in Red: November 2011
http://writemeinred.blogspot.com/2011_11_01_archive.html
Write Me in Red. Friday, November 18, 2011. A Recipe for a Broken Heart. 2 beating hearts, one warm, one cold. 1 more cruel word. 2 weeks of waiting. 10 days of bitterness. 1 week of insecurity. 1 day of longing. 1 day of self-pity (could be substituted by complaints). 1 day of anger. 1 day of recrimination (this can continue over the next two days). 1 day of indecision. 1 day of hardened resolve. 1 day of silence. Love and pride in equal measures. Tried and tested over centuries. View my complete profile.
fillinthegaps100.blogspot.com
The Fill in the Gaps: 100 project: Mariana by Monica Dickens
http://fillinthegaps100.blogspot.com/2013/04/mariana-by-monica-dickens.html
The Fill in the Gaps: 100 project. Thursday, April 18, 2013. Mariana by Monica Dickens. This may be the loveliest opening to a novel that I have ever read. Mary sometimes heard people say: 'I can't bear to be alone." She could never understand this. All her life she had needed the benison of occasional solitude, and she needed it now more than ever. If she could not be with the man she loved, then she would rather be by herself.". She remembered her childhood, with a mother who had been widowed in the la...
thegriffinreviews.blogspot.com
The Griffin Reviews: 2010: What I read this year, so far...
http://thegriffinreviews.blogspot.com/2010/01/2010-what-i-read-this-year-so-far.html
Book reviews by Josephine Damian. Monday, January 25, 2010. 2010: What I read this year, so far. 1 THE GHOST WRITER - John Harwood. 2 THE DAUGHTER OF TIME - Josephine Tey. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Authors: Book review policy:. 8221; There will be NO EXCEPTIONS! One in a hundred best reads. My Top 100 Favorite Books. Subscribe to The Griffin Reviews via email! Enter your email address:. Subscribe in a reader. 2010: What I read this year, so far. Book Nut - Melissa's Book Reviews.
thegriffinreviews.blogspot.com
The Griffin Reviews: January 2010
http://thegriffinreviews.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html
Book reviews by Josephine Damian. Monday, January 25, 2010. 2010: What I read this year, so far. 1 THE GHOST WRITER - John Harwood. 2 THE DAUGHTER OF TIME - Josephine Tey. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Authors: Book review policy:. 8221; There will be NO EXCEPTIONS! One in a hundred best reads. My Top 100 Favorite Books. Subscribe to The Griffin Reviews via email! Enter your email address:. Subscribe in a reader. 2010: What I read this year, so far. Book Nut - Melissa's Book Reviews. Clayton Moore - Bang!
thegriffinreviews.blogspot.com
The Griffin Reviews: The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story – Glenway Wescott
http://thegriffinreviews.blogspot.com/2008/08/pilgrim-hawk-love-story-glenway-wescott.html
Book reviews by Josephine Damian. Sunday, August 10, 2008. The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story – Glenway Wescott. This slim novel, first published in 1940, takes place in a single afternoon. Alwyn Towers, an American expatriate and wannabe-novelist, is visiting his friend Alexandra Henry in a Parisian suburb. One day, a well-to-do nomadic Irish couple drop by, unannounced. With deft shorthand, the author describes the couple through Tower’s perspective on Alexandra’s assessment of the Cullens as. There’...
thegriffinreviews.blogspot.com
The Griffin Reviews: A PRAYER FOR THE DYING – Stewart O’Nan
http://thegriffinreviews.blogspot.com/2008/08/prayer-for-dying-stewart-onan.html
Book reviews by Josephine Damian. Friday, August 15, 2008. A PRAYER FOR THE DYING – Stewart O’Nan. It’s not every day you read a book written in the second person singular, present tense. It’s even more rare for a writer to have the skill to write in this POV and actually pull it off, to make. The narrator’s second person perspective appear seamless, and not jarring. When Stewart O’Nan’s A PRAYER FOR THE DYING opens, all’s quiet in the aptly named rural. In spite of the fact that he experiences the towns...