September Top 10 Reads Review: "The Widower’s Tale" by Julia Glass
"The Widower's Tale" by Julia Glass
Knopf/Pantheon, September 2010
Reviewed by Holloway McCandless
In Julia Glass’s fourth novel, The Widower’s Tale, Percy Darling, a retired Harvard librarian who’s spent the...
September Top 10 Reads Review: "A Curable Romantic" by Joseph Skibell
A Curable Romantic by Joseph Skibell (Algonquin Books, 595 pp., $24.95 hardcover)
Reviewed by Sarah Weinman
A Curable Romantic has all the necessary ingredients of a rollicking picaresque, what with a main character who engages in all manne...
September Top 10 Reads Review: "The Tiger" by John Vaillant
"The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival"
by John Vaillant ($26.95, Knopf, 352 pages)
Review by Edward Champion
Fewer than four hundred tigers now roam the Russian Far East, but one single animal burned br...
September’s Top 10 Reads
For many of us in the Western world, September is month that spells a return to school and work after summer weeks of sun and holiday. Sobering, yes -- but just like the morning after New Year's Eve, this sort of wake-up call often involves new resolve...
August’s Top 10 Reads
Traditionally, August is publishing's sleepiest month, the doldrums in which nothing gets done and everyone is off in the Hamptons and there's nothing good to read.
Not so in 2010! I had a really tough time narrowing down this month's pile of galleys t...
Friday Reads Giveaway: Winners for July 9th
Last Friday we had over 500 participants in the Twitter-based #fridayreads meme, so as promised: Two randomly selected participants shall receive grab bags of 10 (ten!) brand-new hardcover books.
Are you ready? The two winners should immediately email ...
July’s Top 10 Reads
Greetings, patient readers. We've been offline for a couple of weeks -- but I want to assure you it's because we've got all kinds of new plans for this site, and we've been working very hard to put them into place. We're looking forward to sharing them...
"The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake" by Aimee Bender
Most foodies will admit that the act of eating can and should be a gustatory revelation for the mouth. Tasting is one of the senses particularly dependent on pleasure. The last thing someone wants is a bitter or disgusting flavor in their mouth.
In ...
"Imperial Bedrooms" by Bret Easton Ellis
Putatively a sequel to Less Than Zero, Ellis’s latest actually has nothing in common with his audacious debut except for the same setting and character names. Twenty-five years after the fictional birth of coked-out-of-his-mind teenager Clay, ...
Giveaway: Fiction Grab Bag
It's time for us to air out the cupboards here at The WETA Book Studio -- we must give away some books in order to make room for new ones to arrive!
If you like light romantic comedy, "Lovesick" by Alex Wellen -- the tale of a man who's ...
