The Sisters Brothers is set as a western novel – in fact a gold rush western novel – but it is an unusual one. The book chronicles some of the adventures of Eli and Charlie Sisters, paid killers on what would be their last job. … Read More
I read books for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes I’ll pick up a book based on recommendations from friends. Other times, I’ll read a review or a reference to a book on line. Still at other times, I’ll wander through a book store and be… Read More
Old City Hall is the first of four novels by Robert Rotenberg featuring the character Detective Ari Green, along with a few other recurring characters. I gobbled them up in more or less reverse order. Like the others, this was a highly readable mystery with… Read More
Having just finished By Blood by Ellen Ullman, I’m about to start Canada by Richard Ford. I don’t know much about it except that it is about the life of a teen-aged boy whose parents rob a bank, and that it was published last year… Read More
I started reading By Blood by Ellen Ullman on my road-trip and finished it up tonight. Ms. Ullman challenges us early on to suspend our disbelief with a premise that might seem overly contrived, but I bought in and was well rewarded with a somewhat… Read More
Deadwood, the novel by Pete Dexter, was published in 1986, long before the unresolved television spectacle of the same name. Both deal with the same couple years in the strange wild west muddy world driven by greed for gold, and both deal with many of… Read More
I posted a review of The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry at the Bookworm Collective. Next up on the reading list: Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell. I think this one is being made into a film.
I started reading a highly acclaimed novel before Christmas, called Blackstrap Hawco. It’s reported to be an epic masterwork about Newfoundland’s working class. For whatever reason, this book has not been drawing me in. I leave it alone for days at a time, pick it… Read More
27th Street 