Forget the Balloon Boy and his kooky family -- direct your attention to these scintillating tomes of resveratrol gone wrong, families in crisis, the...
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I have never read Judy Blume's Forever. I haven't read The Clan of the Cave Bear or Blubber or Fifteen or Tiger Eyes. I did start Are You There God?...
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This installment of the Review Roundup features some terrified fear, some gentle, brogue-accented humor, some orgasms, and plenty of sugar-laced wine....
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Remember that rollicking little list of the top 20 most annoying book reviewer clichés? It's funny how, once you see that riveting,...
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Since The Boy Who Lived, since everyone's favorite sparkly vampire, the young adult fiction genre has been avalanched with fresh fantasy and science...
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In Jonathan Gash’s sadly neglected Lovejoy mystery series, the roguish antiques dealer, Lovejoy, is a “divvie”: he can...
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This week's Review Roundup is longer than past installments. I've gorged myself on so many interesting books this summer, trying to pick only a...
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Wallow in your lust for conspicuous book consumption this Memorial Day weekend with these four 100% cliché-free reviews (What? Book reviewers...
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If your only experience of mail-order bride yarns has been Patricia MacLachlan's sweet Sarah, Plain and Tall, hold onto your bonnets : Robert...
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As regular Book Examiner visitors know, I had a book review epiphany/epipha-tree last month. The scales fell from my astonished eyes and I realized...
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