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Allthepage: Books, books, and more books
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This is a blog of rants, raves, and recommendations for readers by a writer and avid reader of literary fiction and memoir with an admitted addiction to crime thrillers. Also the occasional recommendation of movies about books or based on books. A little bit about me, a lot about my books.
- Added on: Sep 13th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: bookishinsac
- Listed in: Books Entertainment
- Tags: books fiction book reviews novels nonfiction memoirs
Recent Posts
Any More “Calmer” and I’d Have Fallen Asleep
I tried. I really did. I’ve said before that I hate like hell to give up on a book once I’ve started it. Finish it and hate, but not just quit. And I used to love Pete Dexter, which makes this case all the more irksome. Dexter wrote a col...
Women On the Edge — or Off the Hook
A couple of books that sort of resonate a common theme of complicated, and not always complementary female friendship: Kate Christensen’s Trouble is loosely centered around the friendship of three women: Josie, Raquel, and peripherally, Indrani...
New Novels from Recent Favorites
I’m always excited to discover a new great author, and a couple I’ve read just since posting this blog are back already with new offerings. First, and, I think even better than her debut (Sharp Objects), is Gillian Flynn’s Dark Plac...
The Buzz on Little Bee
“On the girl’s brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty, too, and I ask you right here please to agree ...
Book Review: The Help
I had read a couple of short magazine reviews of The Help by Kathryn Stockett before I picked it up, both rather noncommittal, so I was curious but not expecting anything in particular. Like the reviewers before me, I was neither bowled over, nor dis...
Abstain From This Tom Perrotta
“It was standard-issue Abstinence Ed, in other words–shameless fear-mongering, backed up by half-truths and bogus examples and inflammatory rhetoric–nothing Ruth hadn’t been exposed to before, but this time, for some reason, i...
