Tag: #book review
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IYCRMM: Expansive sci-fi and policing matters
IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND: Two of the novels reviewed here are brilliant examples of where sci-fi today is taking us; and there are two detective mysteries that similarly show the broad range of the genre
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IYCRMM: Modern mysteries and a modern/medieval satire
If You Could Read My Mind: Today we review three brilliantly rendered mysteries, each deserving of our attention for different reasons. And the fourth novel is a hilarious but pithy satire set in medieval times—but all about today.
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IYCRMM: Historical fiction, crime, and journalism
IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND: The four novels today include fine examples of historical fiction, and of how crime fiction today can blend both actual cases in history, and/or humor to great effect. Enjoy!
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IYCRMM: The art of worldbuilding and mining for humor
If You Could Read My Mind: Today, we have novels that excel in worldbuilding—whether it be the past, or a sci-fi near-future—and two that bring us humor while operating within the genre of crime fiction.
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From New York and England, to Mexico and the afterlife
if You Could Read My Mind: The four novels today take us around the world, and beyond
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18th Century pastiche and murders most foul
If You Could Read My Mind: Four riveting novels feature in today’s #IYCRMM.
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The selective extinction of our species
If You Could Read My Mind: The four novels today deal with social conduct and mores with a light touch, even when the subject matter is the extinction of the species via murder, male mid-life crisis, suicide, and AI. To the authors’ credit, these four are wonderfully rendered comedies.
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Literary humor, fraud, and high drama
If You Could Read My Mind: Two novels today, ‘The Echo Chamber’ and ‘Little Siberia,’ are humorous and playful. ‘The Sweetness of Water’ is a dramatic depiction of post-Civil War and ‘The Plot’ is about literary fraud and the consequences paid.
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C’est magnifique and crime does pay
IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND: A multi-awarded French novel gets its English translation, and three distinct, diverse types of crime fiction
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Commemorating the vanishing and the American Dream revisited
IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND: An interesting meditation on physical loss and impermanence, and three varying versions of the American Dream, imbibing the Past, the Present, and the Future. These are the four novels reviewed here.
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Europa, Europa
IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND: European Crime Fiction takes the spotlight via the debut novel of a Swedish author, a French graphic novel, and one set in the UK. And we have a sci-fi alt-history tale set in Germany 1945.
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A New York state of crime and London calling
IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND: From the Hamptons to upstate New York, to London or the nearby outskirts
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Mystery deaths, the social divide, and saving Mother Earth
IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND: The four novels today are a mixed bag of delights.
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From the world of words and two from Japan
IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND: Today, we have books that “play” in the world of words, dictionaries, and libraries. And there are two novels from Japanese authors, from opposite ends of the writing spectrum.
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Women in control
Here are four fine novels with women in the lead role. One is a fine example of contemporary crime fiction, and one is a double helix narrative set in today’s London and the late 18th century. The third novel deals with dissociative identity disorder, while the fourth is a stirring account of forbidden love and friendship between two women in the 17th century.
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From East to West, from North to South
The four novels today come from all points of the globe. From India to the UK, and from North America to South Korea. What unites these four novels, is the impeccable quality of the writing, no matter how different their genres are.
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The past and the future as windows to the present
With these four novels, our intrepid quartet of authors dig into the past or speculate on the future in order to create insightful commentary on what we’re like as members of the human race.
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The divine human comedy
BOOK REVIEWS: Four titles that redefine how one should read comedy.