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| December 31, 2006 | ||||||
Middle-aged Jane Mackenzie and her husband Alan used to be happily married, but their relationship is now marred by Alan’s back injury. For the past 15 months, he’s consulted a number of doctors and therapists, and even undergone surgery. But nothing has helped. He’s put on weight, aged considerably, and is in constant pain. While at first, Jane was a considerate nurse and caregiver, over time Alan has become peevish, demanding, difficult, and snappy ...(read full review) Another review by Guy Savage: Love Burns by Edna Mazya |
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| December 30, 2006 | ||||||
In 1993, Harry Bosch and his then partner Jerry Edgar unsuccessfully worked on the disappearance of Marie Gesto, a young woman who had gone horseback riding and was never seen or heard from again. This was a case that haunted Harry over the years and one that he worked on during his brief retirement as well as occasionally during his recent return to the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit. Now, 13 years later ...(read full review) Another review by Chuck Barksdale : The Book of Fate by Brad Meltzer |
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| December 29, 2006 | ||||||
Colin MacKinnon's Morning Spy, Evening Spy is a chilling look at the clandestine world of American intelligence before 9/11, written by a Middle Eastern expert who lived and worked in Iran for years. The first person narrator is CIA Officer Paul Patterson, who tells his story both in the present tense and in flashback. The book opens with the shooting of an American named Ed Powers, who is gunned down in Peshawar, a frontier province in Pakistan. Was Ed, a former CIA officer and a CIA contractor at the time of his death, killed by al-Qaeda because of his CIA connections or did he get into trouble because of his shady business dealings involving drugs and armaments? Is it possible that he was the victim of a random act of terrorism? ...(read full review) Another review by Eleanor Bukowsky: The Hidden Assassins by Robert Wilson |
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| December 28, 2006 | ||||||
A Jerusalem bombing results in the death of an unidentified forty-eight-year-old woman, after she has been comatose for two days. Unvisited at the hospital during the last days of her life, she remains, unmourned, in the local morgue for more than a week, until a pay stub finally traces her to the bakery where she worked. When an aggressive newspaper reporter breaks the story of the unmissed and unmourned employee, the bakery's eighty-seven-year-old owner is both embarrassed by the publicity and furious at the story's accusations... (read full review) Antoher review by Mary Whipple: Old Filfth by Jane Gardam |
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| December 27, 2006 | ||||||
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Our Top Fiction is based on the books that we READ this year. It is not limited to those that we reviewed or those published in 2006. This makes the list broader than the few books we were able to review this year and also keeps with our philosphy that a good book never goes out of style. MostlyFiction.com does like to review the new books as they come out -- it is exciting to see what our favorite authors are up to and to discover new ones -- but we never want to pass up a good read, no matter when it was written! I think it is an interesting list of books and gives a bit of insight into what each reviewer was into reading this year. Links are either to reviews, author pages or amazon. Check out the lists.... |
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December 26, 2006 |
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Highway 61 traverses the entire length of western Mississippi. It enters from Louisiana in the south, runs through Natchez, Vicksburg, Greenville, and Clarksdale, before exiting through Tennessee on the north, where it goes through and beyond Memphis. Bill Fitzhugh’s Highway 61 Resurfaced is a well-conceived and crafted novel about a terrible incident that happens on Highway 61, just outside of Leland (“the Hellhole of the Delta”), on a night in 1953, ... (read full review) Hagen Baye's most recent review: The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos |
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December 25, 2006 |
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Mind you, this is not a real blog. Not yet anyway. I will download some blog software and investigate its appropriateness to MostlyFiction.com, but for now I will settle for just mimicking a blog. MERRY CHRISTMAS! |
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TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES 
from 12 reviews
ECHO PARK 
from 75 reviews
MORNING SPY, EVENING SPY 
from 4 reviews
A WOMAN IN JERUSALEM 
from 10 reviews
HIGHWAY 61 RESURFACED 
Now that Christmas is over (I'm broke, my sisters' kids appear to be happy, a success in the true American tradition) and the New Year is fast approaching, it's time to try something new at MostlyFiction.com. The site is going to go "blog-style" rather than "magazine-style." Meaning, the site will have frequent updates versus monthly (more or less) updates. This will be more fair to the good people who review for this site since their reviews (in theory) will be posted sooner. Except for the fact that I have a lot to catch up on (say 40 or 50 outstanding reviews), new reviews should be posted soon after they are submitted rather than waiting for the next update (or longer). The only time this won't hold true is when I have to travel out of town for business, which is only twice a year. Or when I have an unrealistic deadline, such as the one I was just working on for the last three and half weeks, which in my opinion, ought not happen again. 
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