Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category
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Review: The Bonfire of the Vanities
01 Aug 2025I asked in a blog some years ago if satire worked. If it does, why is the world in such…
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Can you help me deal with Amazon’s high-handedness?
05 Jul 2025AMAZON’S HIGH-HANDEDNESS I’d appreciate your help dealing with Amazon’s high-handedness. Some time ago on Amazon I had well over 100…
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35 Years of Devil in a Blue Dress
04 Jun 2025DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS Devil in a Blue Dress is celebrating its 35th anniversary. Walter Mosley’s bestseller broke new…
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Three books for humans
03 Apr 2025THREE BOOKS FOR HUMANS It’s not easy to find an entertaining book about the way we live now, climate change…
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Orbital and other books and TV
28 Nov 2024ORBITAL AND OTHER BOOKS AND TV Fall in love with the earth In my continuing search for books to recommend…
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Books & TV for the long nights
02 Oct 2024BOOKS & TV FOR THE LONG NIGHTS It’s scary how many books there are out there. So many good books…
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The Boys from Biloxi. Has Grisham taken on too big a case?
18 Aug 2023THE BOYS FROM BILOXI Not many writers can claim to have made a genre their own, but John Grisham and…
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Act of Oblivion – Robert Harris
25 May 2023ACT OF OBLIVION Why should we care? It’s probably the most important question a storyteller needs to answer. It’s particularly…
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Not the Oscars
14 Mar 2023NOT THE OSCARS Excited about the Oscar winners? Don’t bother: get excited about Not the Oscars! The good movies that…
