 MostlyFiction.com Newsletter Update
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November 16, 2006
Hello, MostlyFiction.com readers!
21 new reviews were recently posted to MostlyFiction.com. Click on the book cover to read the review; click on reviewer's name to learn more about the reviewer.
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 THE GIRLS
by Lori Lansens
Reviewed by Pat Neuman
Meet Rose and Ruby: sisters, best friends, confidantes, and conjoined twins. Extraordinary.
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 ANGEL AND APOSTLE
by Deborah Noyes
Reviewed by Mary Whipple
With THE SCARLET LETTER as her inspiration, Noyes recreates the life of Pearl, daughter of Hester Prynne and an unnamed father.
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 THE HIDDEN ASSASSINS
by Robert Wilson
Reviewed by Eleanor Bukowsky
A mutilated nude male turns up in a municipal dump. Before Seville's Insp. Jefe Javier Falcón has time to investigate, a huge bomb explodes in a mosque flattening an apartment complex and a day-care center..
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 GLAD NEWS OF THE NATURAL WORLD
by T. R. Pearson
Reviewed by Guy Savage
Narrator Louis Benford is back again. The Thirty-four year old slacker from Neely, North Carolina is shipped off to New York to work for an insurance company. Once unleashed in New York, rather than being upwardly mobile, Louis spirals downward.
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 OLD FILTH
by Jane Gardam
Reviewed by Mary Whipple
Raised as a "Raj Orphan," Sir Edward Feathers is a retired barrister looking back on the past that produced him. Sophisticated and subtle.
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 THE CHINATOWN DEATH CLOUD PERIL
by Paul Malmont
Reviewed by Tony Ross
It's 1932 and the two top pulp fiction writers, Walter Gibson (THE SHADOW) and Lester Dent (DOC SAVAGE) are tyring to solve a real crime.
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 54
by Wu Ming
Reviewed by Mary Whipple
The midlife crisis of Cary Grant, the founding of the KGB and the Neapolitan years of mafioso Lucky Luciano are just three of the plot lines woven into this dense, playful and always surprising literary behemoth set in 1954.
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 LOVE BURNS
by Edna Mazya
Reviewed by Guy Savage
Obsessive love drives a middle-age man to murder. Debut novel by the famed Israeli playwright.
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 THE NIGHT GARDENER
by George Pelecanos
Reviewed by Hagen Baye
A literary page-turner, set once again in the gritty streets of Washington, D.C. Three detectives have a chance to solve a twenty year old case -- that is similar to a current murder.
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 NO TRACE
by Barry Maitland
Reviewed by Eleanor Bukowsky
The latest Brock and Kolla mystery finds the Scotland Yard partners looking into the kidnapping of a six-year-old girl.
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 RESTLESS
by William Boyd
Reviewed by Mary Whipple
Ruth Gilmartin learns the true identity and WWII profession of her aging mother and is understandably surprised to learn that she had been a spy.
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 PAINT IT BLACK
by Janet Fitch
Reviewed by Guy Savage
The author of WHITE OLEANDER does not disappoint in her second novel, which is about a woman who contends with her boyfriend's unexpected suicide.
2nd in trilogy, picking up about a year after the events in TOTAL CHAOS.
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 THE WRONG MAN
by John Katzenbach
Reviewed by Eleanor Bukowsky
For art student Ashley Freeman a one night stand with Michael O'Connell has dire consequences.
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 THE TRUDEAU VECTOR
by Juris Jurjevis
Reviewed by Ann Wilkes
Full Arctic night--the kind that lasts for months--unveils a biological nightmare at Trudeau Arctic Research Station.
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 THE BOOK OF FATE
by Brad Meltzer
Reviewed by Chuck Barksdale
Hot shot Wes Holloway's face was disfigured while shot during a frantic assassination attempt the President's life. That was eight years ago.
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 NO GOOD DEEDS
by Laura Lippman
Reviewed by Eleanor Bukowsky
The old saying that "no good deed goes unpunished" is proven once again in Laura Lippman's new Tess Monaghan novel.
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 TO A POWER OF THREE
by Laura Lippman
Reviewed by Eleanor Bukowsky
Stand-alone mystery about three high school girlfriends and a school shooting.
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 MESSENGER OF TRUTH
by Jacqueline Winspear
Reviewed by Mary Whipple
British psychologist and PI Maisie Dobbs is asked to look into the death of a classmate's brother. 4th in this set in post-WWI.
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 PARDONABLE LIES
by Jacqueline Winspear
Reviewed by Mary Whipple
It is 1930 and Maisie Dobbs has been operating her detective cum psychiatric agency for more than a year in the 3rd of this series.
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 SICK PUPPY
by Carl Hiaasen
Reviewed by Pat Neuman
Florida muckraker Hiaasen writes a devilishly funny caper revolving around the environmental exploitation of his home state by greedy developers.
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 FROM A CROOKED RIB
by Nurrudin Farah
Reviewed by Tony Ross
Ebla runs away from her nomadic encampment in rural Somalia when her grandfather promises her in marriage to an older man. Farah's first novel reprinted.
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 HOPSCOTCH
by Julio Cortazár
Reviewed by Jana L. Perskie
This novel is a classic Latin American novel originally published in 1963, it's title reflects its nonlinear format. A rewarding challenge.
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I am a bit late on this update (again). I recently returned from my third trip to China for my job (lucky me!). The trip itself is for only two weeks, but we travel to lots of different locations (Beijing, Qingdao, Wuxi, Canton, Hong Kong & Seoul, Korea) by car, plane and bus and thus we put in long hours everyday - so it feels like much longer. I was exhausted before I left -- it takes a lot of work to get ready for the trip -- so my recovery was that much slower when I returned. Part of the trip that I really enjoy is the uninterrupted reading on the flight over (22 hours from start to finish) and the return. It means I can tackle a larger novel -- so this trip I read Neal Stephenson's QUICKSILVER, which I finally finished on the flight from Hong Kong to Korea. I enjoyed it tremendously but was so tired that I'd really like to reread it. As if... On the flight home, I read MR MUO'S TRAVELLING COUCH by Dai Shu (no review yet), which I picked up in Hong Kong and A DANGEROUS WOMAN by Mary McGarry Morris (also no review yet), which came from my long overdue TBR pile. So, all in all good reading.
Enjoy your Thanksgiving holiday -- wishing you good eating, happy family & friends, and great reading as you digest and enjoy the leftovers!
Happy Reading!
Judi Clark
MostlyFiction.com
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