This is the first year that the entire Buried In Print family is read-a-thon-ing. This takes a lot more coordination and planning than simply ensuring that everybody else is busy elsewhere so that I can spend a day reading. But, in the end, I think it's going to be a
Dan Vyleta's The Crooked Maid pulls readers into a suspenseful, dark tale as swiftly as the train carrying Anna Beer and Robert Siedal pulls into the Vienna station. Although it does share some characters with the author's previous novel, The Quiet Twin, it can be read as a standalone novel. Both
Perhaps it's only to give readers an idea of how special it all was to Charlie. "I suppose what I'm trying to say is that the writing of a man's life at least gives you an idea of just how special it all was to him the first time around."
There is no great mystery at the heart of Jennifer LoveGrove's debut novel. No simple explanation for the way its pages turn, relentlessly. Emily's story is a quiet story, the ground beneath her feet shifting subtly, though inexorably. In relaying her story to readers, Jennifer LoveGrove makes a series of
When describing this book to a friend recently, I said I found his style "quintessentially male". That's a sloppy term, but when you've bookchatted with someone about many books over several years, a certain shorthand develops. All I had to add was that it left with me the same feeling
