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The Situation and The Story – Vivian Gornick
Read more: The Situation and The Story – Vivian GornickTaking readers on a tour of some of the best memoirs and essays of the past hundred years, Gornick traces the changing idea of self that has been dominated the century, demonstrate and demonstrates the enduring truth-speaker to be found in the work of writers as diverse as Edmund Gosse, Joan Didion, Oscar Wilde, James…
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The Hunter – Tana French
Read more: The Hunter – Tana FrenchBook review, full book summary and synopsis for The Hunter by Tana French, a story about a man of disrepute coming back into town with a get-rich-quick scheme in this tense narrative about revenge, old grudges, and familial bonds. Trey is a teenager living in the small mountain town of Ardnakelty in Ireland with her…
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In The Woods – Tana French
Read more: In The Woods – Tana FrenchIt’s 1984 and three twelve-year-olds, best friends who live in Knocknaree, Ireland, are playing in the woods. By nightfall, two of them are missing and the last boy, Adam Ryan, is found, traumatized, in a tree with a sneaker filled with blood, gashes in his clothes and gaping holes where memories of that day’s events…
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Magpie Murders – Horowitz
Read more: Magpie Murders – HorowitzMagpie Murders, by Anthony Horowitz, offers up a premise that’s almost sure to pique the interest of most lovers of classic mystery novels. It’s a very Agatha Christie-esque mystery wrapped up in another mystery involving the publication of that manuscript. It’s an especially compelling setup for a mystery novel, since two mysteries means double the…
