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Showing posts with label Books Fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books Fiction. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Book Review: The Singer's Gun. Emily St. John Mandel (2009).

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The author of The Singer’s Gun , Emily St. John Mandel, is a Canadian author best known for her bestselling dystopian novel of a global pl...
Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Book Review: The Every (Dave Eggers, 2021).

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A while ago, I wrote a review of Dave Eggers’ novel The Circle from 2015, which was made into a good film with Emma Watson in the starring r...
Sunday, January 8, 2023

Book Review: Slow Horses (2010). Mick Herron.

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Hello, and welcome to the new year here at The Memory Cache . Today we're talking about spies, and novels about them.   I recently becam...
Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Book Review: The Sweetness of Water (2021). Nathan Harris.

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I picked up this recent first novel by Nathan Harris, which became an immediate bestseller and an award-winner last year, based on rave revi...
Saturday, September 10, 2022

Book Review: Sea of Tranquility (2022). Emily St. John Mandel.

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This is an earnest first attempt at a real science-fiction novel by the author of Station Eleven , which follows a number of ordinary human ...
Friday, September 2, 2022

Book Reviews: Honorable Mentions: Fiction, Mysteries and Thrillers.

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Today I'm posting another one of my "Honorable Mentions" special features of short reviews of five related types of books.  To...
Thursday, August 25, 2022

Book Review: The Lincoln Highway (2021). Amor Towles.

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The Lincoln Highway is the third and most recent bestselling historical novel by Amor Towles, who left a twenty-year career as an investmen...
Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Book Review: The Overstory (2018). Richard Powers.

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I previously reviewed three books by Richard Powers, including his most recent novel, Bewilderment , and two older ones, The Echo Maker and...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Book Series Review: Outlander. Diana Gabaldon.

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I previously reviewed the ninth novel in the long series of Outlander novels by Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone (2021), but...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Book Reviews: Honorable Mentions List (Fiction and Science Fiction)

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In my most recent personal note from last Sunday, July 23rd, I mentioned that I wanted to try occasionally posting an "Honorable Mentio...
Sunday, July 10, 2022

Book Review: Varina (2018). Charles Frazier.

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This is a beautifully written, haunting novel about Varina Davis, the much-younger wife of Jefferson Davis, and First Lady of the Confederac...
Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Book Series Review: The Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy: Crazy Rich Asians (2014), China Rich Girlfriend (2015), and Rich People Problems (2017). Kevin Kwan.

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The first and best known of this three novel series, Crazy Rich Asians , was the basis for the blockbuster romantic comedy film of the same ...
Sunday, July 3, 2022

Book Review: December 6 (2003). Martin Cruz Smith.

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In my ongoing search for reading and entertainment available from the library by e-book during the pandemic, I started looking for novels fr...
Thursday, June 30, 2022

Book Series Review: The Dune Chronicles: Dune (1965), Dune Messiah (1969), Children of Dune (1976), God Emperor of Dune (1981), Heretics of Dune (1984) and Chapterhouse: Dune (1985). Frank Herbert.

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Today I'm doing something a little different.  Instead of writing a review of one book, I'm doing a quick summary of a series of rel...