Archive for August 25, 2009
GOURMET RHAPSODY by Muriel Barbery
In Muriel Barbery’s bestselling novel, THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG, Renee Michel, the concierge, disdains the fourth-floor resident, restaurant critic Pierre Arthens, as “an oligarch of the worst sort.” She continues, “Can one be so gifted and yet so impervious to the presence of things?” Yes, apparently he can, and in Barbery’s new “companion” volume, GOURMET RHAPSODY, the curtain of mystery is drawn back from him, and he shows us exactly how he does it!
August 25, 2009
Tags: Around-the-World, Europa, Food Posted in: France, Translated, World Literature 
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206 BONES by Kathy Reichs
206 BONES, by Kathy Reichs, opens with Tempe Brennan, handcuffed and buried in some sort of underground crypt. She does not remember how she got there, but is understandably terrified. The author then traces the complicated series of events that led up to Tempe’s abduction and entombment.
August 25, 2009
Tags: Sleuth Posted in: Canada, Sleuths Series No Comments
