Literature
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Review: `Story of Gardening' gets a timely update
Aug 11, 2020 7:00 am - 'œThe Story of Gardening,'ť by Penelope Hobhouse and Ambra Edwards (Princeton Architectural Press) It's an opportune time for an update to this lavishly illustrated hist...
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Need to laugh out loud? These hilarious romance novels will do the trick.
Aug 11, 2020 6:00 am - We hold these truths to be self-evident: One, 2020 is a trash fire. Two, romance novels have the power to dampen the resulting flames. Thank you for coming to my TED tal...
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Book review: A 'Twilight' revamp, all in for team Edward
Aug 11, 2020 6:00 am - "Midnight Sun," by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) Edward Cullen. He sparkles in sunlight, has a thing for hemoglobin and, with 2005's megah...
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Review: Bombings and a disappearance fuel Parker's new novel
Aug 10, 2020 7:00 am - 'œThen She Vanished,'ť by T. Jefferson Parker (Putnam) With each new book in T. Jefferson Parker's series featuring San Diego private detective Roland Ford, the less the...
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Review: American culture seen new in 'After the Last Border'
Aug 10, 2020 7:00 am - 'œAfter the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America," by Jessica Goudeau, (Viking) In this book we take a journey into American culture through the...
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Book review: Deceit and desire await in White's 'A Saint From Texas'
Aug 08, 2020 7:28 am - "A Saint From Texas," Edmund White (Bloomsbury Publishing) There is a lot to appreciate in Edmund White's "A Saint from Texas": the artful prose, the viv...
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Book Review: Deceit and desire await in White's new novel
Aug 05, 2020 7:00 am - 'œA Saint from Texas,'ť Edmund White (Bloomsbury Publishing) There is a lot to appreciate in Edmund White's 'œA Saint from Texas:'ť the artful prose, the vivid storytell...
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Book review: More supernatural horror from 'The Strain' writers
Aug 05, 2020 6:00 am - "The Hollow Ones: The Blackwood Tapes Vol. 1," by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan (Hachette Book Group) The writing team behind "The Strain" trilogy i...
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Review: More supernatural horror from '~The Strain' writers
Aug 04, 2020 7:00 am - 'œThe Hollow Ones: The Blackwood Tapes Vol. 1,'ť by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan (Hachette Book Group) The writing team behind 'œThe Strain'ť trilogy is back with ...
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Book review: Hank Phillippi Ryan teeters on the improbable in 'First to Lie'
Aug 04, 2020 6:00 am - "The First to Lie" by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Forge) The first liar we meet in Hank Phillippi Ryan's "First to Lie" is Nora, a pharmaceutical representative...